Univ. Prof. Dr. Konrad Fiedler

+43 1 4277 57400

konrad.fiedler@univie.ac.at

Educational background and professional career

• Born in Darmstadt (Germany), primary school in Ober-Roden near Frankfurt/Main, secondary school in Gelnhausen (Germany).

• Studies in biology (with major in zoology) and mathematics at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe-University, Frankfurt/Main (Germany), supported by scholarships from the Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes.

• Graduation (Diploma, equivalent to M. Sc.) in 1987, PhD (Dr. phil. nat.) in 1990 (supervisor: Prof. Dr. Ulrich Maschwitz).

• 1991 postdoc at the University of Würzburg, Department of Behavioural Physiology and Sociobiology, with Prof. Dr. Bert Hölldobler.

• From 1992-1996 assistant professor at the Department of Behavioral Physiology and Sociobiology, University of Würzburg.

• Habilitation completed in 1996.

• Award of a Heisenberg scholarship through the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft.

• From 1996-2004 professor for population ecology at the Department of Animal Ecology I, University of Bayreuth, Germany.

• From September 2004 to January 2005 visiting professor for population ecology at the University of Vienna, since 1.2.2005 full professor for population ecology and head of the newly established department at the University of Vienna.
  

Served as elected member of the faculty council at the University of Bayreuth from 1997-2004. Deputy to the dean of study affairs (‘Studiendekan’) 2002-2004.
Reviewer for over 30 international scientific journals, including Basic and Applied Ecology, Behavioral Ecology & Sociobiology, Ecology, Oikos, Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, etc. Member in the editorial board of Ecotropica, Journal of Research on the Lepidoptera, and Oecologia.

Served on reviewing panels for various research funding agencies, including Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (elected member of panel for 2000-2004), Finnish Academy of Sciences, Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes, Deutsche Bundesstiftung Umwelt, Wissenschaftsrat der BR Deutschland, BBSRC. Member in the scientific advisory board of the EU-project MacMan and the Natural History Museums of the Federal State of Saxony.