New professor appointed

The ETH Board appointed Dr Loïc Pellissier as Tenure Track Assistant Professor of Landscape Ecology at WSL and ETH Zurich.

At its meeting of 4/5 March 2015, the ETH Board appointed Dr Loïc Pellissier (*1984), currently a Research Group Leader at the Université de Fribourg, as Tenure Track Assistant Professor of Landscape Ecology. Loïc Pellissier conducts pure and applied research in the field of biodiversity and spatial ecology. He focuses on climate change and evolutions in land use as key driving forces. Loïc Pellissier's appointment is of great importance to the study of «Biological diversity and adaptation to changing environmental conditions» at the Department of Environmental Systems Science of ETH Zurich. His appointment is a joint one with WSL, thus significantly strengthening the strategically important alliance between the two institutions.