Prof. Dr. Tobias Kümmerle

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9775-142X

Tobias Kuemmerle is an interdisciplinary researcher working on land-use change and how it impacts the environment, and how conservation can balance land use and the maintenance of life on Earth. He holds a PhD in Geography from Humboldt-University Berlin (2008) and has carried out postdoc stays at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA (2009-2010) and the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact (2011-2012). Since 2012, he is a professor for biogeography at the Geography Department of Humboldt-University Berlin. Tobias Kümmerle has been awarded an ERC Consolidator Grant (2020), has been a member of the Young Academy of Sciences of Germany (2013-2018), has received an Einstein Junior Fellow award by the Einstein Foundation (2012-2015) and a Feodor-Lynen-Fellowship by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. A more detailed profile can be found at: http://hu.berlin/kuemmerle.

Organisational Affiliations

Biogeography

Projects

01/2022 - 12/2027	Shifting to a Land Systems Paradigm in Conservation
07/2019 - 12/2022	EU: Crossing! Improving the Trans-Boundary Wildlife Management of Bison and Moose (LosBonasus)
12/2018 - 11/2020	EU: Leveraging the Potential of Historical Spy Satellite Photography for Ecology and Conservation (EcoSpy)
01/2018 - 06/2022	COUPLED. Operationalising telecouplings for solving sustainability challenges related to land use
06/2017 - 05/2018	Biodiv4Future: Managing Future Risks of Biodiversity Tipping Points in South America’s Seasonal Dry Ecosystems
04/2017 - 06/2017	Green Talents Research Stay Programme (Dr Elizabeth Law)
04/2017 - 05/2018	How do Armed Conflicts Influence the Environment?
12/2016 - 12/2021	Continuous Satellite-Based Indicators for Mapping Subtropical Forest Degradation and Its Environmental Impacts
10/2015 - 09/2017	EU: Co-Benefits and Conflicts Between CO₂ Sequestration and Biodiversity Conservation in European Forests (FORESTS and CO)
09/2015 - 12/2018	PASANOA – Pathways to Sustainable Land Management in Northern Argentina
07/2015 - 12/2016	Georg Forster Research Fellowship (HERMES)
01/2015 - 01/2019	Balancing Trade-Offs Between Agriculture and Biodiversity in the Steppes of Kazakhstan
12/2013 - 11/2016	EU: Sustainable Futures for Europe’s HERitage in CULtural LandscapES: Tools for Understanding, Managing, and Protecting Landscape Functions and Values (HERCULES)
07/2013 - 01/2015	Identifying potential habitat for the European bison in Germany
05/2012 - 04/2015	EU: Visions of Land Use Transitions in Europe (VOLANTE)
03/2012 - 12/2015	Biodiversity Impacts of Future Land Use Trajectories