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Thibault Lachat
Organisational unit: Forest Dynamics
Forest Entomology
Phone: +41 44 7392 309
Fax: +41 44 7392 215
Room: Bi HL D 28
E-Mail:
Address: Swiss Federal Research Institute WSL
Zürcherstrasse 111
8903 Birmensdorf

Interests

Beech Forest
Dead Wood

As an environmental scientist and zoologist with field experience in Africa and in Europe, I am seeking to develop programmes leading to biodiversity conservation. I am especially interested in the forest ecosystem. Within this ecosystem, I am focusing on deadwood and old growth dependent species.

Education
2000─2004 PhD in zoology at the University of Basel, NLU Biogeography

Thesis title: The impact of forest management on saproxylic beetles and other arthropods in a semi-deciduous forest in Southern Benin
1994─1999 Master in environmental sciences, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich, Switzerland

Master Thesis Title: Mega-herbivores as ecosystem engineers in Switzerland over the last 250’000 years.
   
Work experiences
Since 2007 Research scientist, Forest dynamics, Functional Diversity of Forests, WSL Birmensdorf (50%)
  Project manager for the project "Target/Countdown 2010", Swiss Biodiversity Forum, Bern (50%)
2005─2007 Research scientist, GECOS and ECOS, ETH Lausanne
2000─2004 Co-manager of the project "BioLama", International cooperation Switzerland-Benin (West Africa)
2000 Scientific collaborator, Swiss Landscape Foundation, Bern
1997 Trainee in Burigi game Reserve, Tanzania
   

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