Louise Vet#
| Membership Number: | 6972 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | ECOLOGY AND EVOLUTION |
| Elected: | 2024 |
| Main Country of Residence: | THE NETHERLANDS |
| Homepage(s): | https://nioo.knaw.nl/en/employees/louise-vet |
| ORCID: | 0000-0002-2287-1128 |
| Twitter: | @LEMVet |
| Linkedin: | https://nl.linkedin.com/in/louisevet |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2019 - present Guest researcher at the Netherlands Institute of Ecology (NIOO-KNAW)
- 1999 Nov - 2019 Nov Director of the Netherlands Institute of Ecology (NIOO-KNAW)
- 2003 March-Sept Visiting professor at Dept. Biology, Univ. Toronto, Canada
- 1999 March-Sept Visiting professor at Dept. Biological Sciences, Simon Fraser Univ., Vancouver, Canada
- 1999 - 2020 Special Chair: Professor in Evolutionary Ecology (WUR) (emeritus since May 2020)
- 1997 - 1999 Professor in Evolutionary Ecology, Wageningen University
- 1989 - 1997 Associate Professor (UHD), Lab. of Entomology, Wageningen University
- 1984 - 1989 Assistant Professor (UD), Lab. of Entomology, Wageningen University
- 1980 - 1984 PhD-student, Department of Ecology, University of Leiden
- 1978 Sept - 1979 Sept Fulbright-Hays fellow at the Dept. of Entomology, Univ. of California, Riverside, USA
Fields of Scholarship
- Ecosystem services
- Biodiversity
- Above-belowground interactions
- Biological control
- Community ecology
- Behavioural ecology
- Multitrophic interactions
- Evolutionary ecology
- Sustainable agriculture
Honours and Awards
- 2021 Honorary doctorate (Doctor honoris causa) from the University of Geneva
- 2019 Knight in the Order of the Lion of the Netherlands, one of the highest royal decorations
- 2018 Honorary Membership of the British Ecological Society
- 2018 Elected number 1 in the Sustainable 100, Netherlands “greenest thinkers and doers"
- 2012 2012 Golden Pyramid State Prize for excellence in commissioning work in architecture
- 2012 The 2012 Leibniz Kolleg Potsdam speaker
- 2012 Invited keynote speaker on sustainable biobased economy, Science and Technology Symposium, Dutch (Royal) economic mission to Brazil. Sao Paulo, Brazil
- 2008 Invited sole keynote speaker for the 200-year anniversary of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW) (first woman speaker ever (200 years!) in the KNAW Science Division)
- 2006 British Rank Prize for Nutrition (first Dutch ever)
- 2004 Elected Member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW)
- 2002 Elected Member Royal Holland Society of Sciences and Humanities (Koninklijke Hollandsche Maatschappij der Wetenschappen)
- 2000 Elected Member Teylers Tweede Genootschap, Haarlem
- 1996 The 1996 Silverstein - Simeone Award of the International Society of Chemical Ecology
- 1978 Fulbright-Hays competitive grant (Netherlands-America Commission for Educational Exchange)
