Jun.-Prof. Dr. Ralf B. Schäfer

Research Interests

• Relationship between traits of freshwater organisms and environmental stressors

• Effects of pollutants on freshwater ecosystem functions

• Passive sampling of organic contaminants

• Spatial ecological modelling

Teaching

• Multivariate Statistics and Geostatistics with R

• Environmental and Ecological Modeling

• Spatial Modeling and GIS

• Mathematics for Environmental Scientists

Academic History

• Juniorprofessor for Quantitative Landscape Ecology (since 2010)

• Postdoctoral Researcher at the RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia (2008-2010)

• PhD (Dr. rer. nat.) in Environmental Sciences, Leuphana University Lüneburg, Germany (2005-2008)

• PhD student at the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research - UFZ, Leipzig, Germany (2005-2008)

• Studies in Statistics, Philosophy and Sociology, University Kassel, Germany (2003-2004)

• MSc in Environmental Sciences at the Leuphana University, Lüneburg, Germany (1997-2003)

Grants and Awards

• Postdoc grant of the German Research Foundation (DFG), Bonn, Germany (2008-2010).

• Best Publication Award of the SETAC Europe (2008).

• 2nd Best Presentation Award of SETAC German Language Branch, Landau, Germany (2006).

• Dissertation grant of the German National Academic Foundation (Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes), Bonn, Germany (2005-2008).

Publications

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