Prof. Dr. Felix Kienast - Personal Homepage

Organisational unit: Landscape Dynamics Landscape Ecology Phone: +41 44 7392 366 Fax: +41 44 7392 215 Room: Bi HL E 40 E-Mail: Address: Swiss Federal Research Institute WSL Zürcherstrasse 111 8903 Birmensdorf

Position

• Titular Professor for Landscape Ecology at the Department of Environmental Sciences at ETHZ (since 2007)
  
• Senior Scientist WSL
  

Education and Professional Experience

• Section head "Landscape Dynamics and Spatial Modeling" at WSL, deputy division head (1998-2006)
  
• Research scientist at WSL (1988-1998)
  
• Postdoctoral fellow & consultant at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA and Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (1985-1988)
• Master and PhD studies Univ. Zürich (1979-1985)

Research Interest

My research concentrates on:

• the evaluation of historic and present landscape patterns and processes
• landscape models designed for simulating potential future landscape development
• the interactions between landscape change and ecological as well as socio-economical properties.
  
• mapping landscape services at medium and large scales

I am actively involved in several national projects on landscape development and restoration, e.g. the search for biosphere reserves or river restoration sites.

My Publications

see Publication list

Kienast, F., Ghosh, R., Wildi, O., (eds.) 2007: A changing world: Challenges for landscape research. Landscape Series. Springer

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--> book review in Landscape Ecology

Current Project Involvement

• EU-project Ecochange (2006-2009)
• Landscape Quality Monitoring (2007 - 2009)

Editorial Boards

• Environmental Management, GAIA, Geographica Helvetica
  

Academic Honors and Achievements

• Goldene Eule (Golden Owl) award (2009) for excellent teaching in Environmental Sciences at ETH, Zurich (awarded by student association of ETH)

Professional Activities

• President International Association for Landscape Ecology (IALE)
  
• Member of SGAG (Swiss Association for applied Geography)
• Member of the scientific advisory board of "Zentrum für Umweltforschung" UFZ
  

Teaching at ETHZ

---> see www.vorlesungsverzeichnis.ethz.ch

• Landscape Ecology (Bachelor course, 2 hours/week, winter-term, No. 701-0553-00)
• Lab-course Landscape Ecology (4 full days, summer-term, No. 701-0560-00)
• Advanced Landscape Ecology (Masters course, shared with J. Bolliger & N. Zimmermann, 2 hours / week, winter-term, No. 701-1613-00)

---> New themes of Master theses

Links to my private world

• Neumünster chamber orchestra (Neumünster Orchester Zürich)