PD Dr. Matthias Bürgi - Personal Homepage

teamleader Organisational unit: Landscape Dynamics Landscape Ecology Phone: +41 44 7392 354 Fax: +41 44 7392 215 Room: Bi HL E 24 E-Mail: Address: Swiss Federal Research Institute WSL Zürcherstrasse 111 8903 Birmensdorf

Research Interests

My primary research interest is combining approaches from landscape ecology, historical ecology, and environmental history to study the interrelationship of natural and historic driving forces of landscape changes. Current work focuses on landscape history and on forest dynamics in Switzerland.

Teaching Activities

I am teaching a Master-level-class on "Land use history and historical ecology" at the Department of Environmental Sciences (D-UWIS) of the ETH Zurich. 

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Education and work experience:

1988-1993   Study of environmental sciences (ETH Zurich; dipl. natw ETH)
1994-1997   Ph.D. student at the the chair of Nature- and Landscape Protection (ETH Zurich, Dr. sc. nat. ETH)
1998-1999   Postdoctoral fellow at the Harvard Forest, Harvard University
1999-2000   Postdoctoral fellow at the University of Wisconsin, Madison
2000-2006   Deputy head of the section nature protection, WSL
2000-2006   Senior researcher at the professorship landscape and nature protection (Prof. Ewald), ETH Zurich

2006             Venia legendi ETH Zurich (PD)

2006-2010   Head of Land Use History Group, WSL

2011-           Head of Landscape Ecology Group, WSL

Awards:      Ph.D. thesis awarded with the medal of the ETH Zurich

Other Activities

Coordinator of IUFRO unit 9.03.03 - "Historical Ecology"

Member of the Forum Biodiversität Schweiz

Member of the Fachgruppe Wissenschaft Freilichtmuseum Ballenberg

Since 2004, I work as a part-time winemaker at the Weingut Rütihof.