Prof. Dr. Christian Hof

by appointment

Since 9.2023         Professor for Global Change Ecology, University of Würzburg

2018 – 2023          Junior Research Group Leader and TUM Junior Fellow, Technical University of Munich, funded by the Bavarian Network for Climate Research bayklif

since 2020             Freelance Lecturer for sustainability and global change within the sustainability programs of the European Business School

2018 – 2019          Guest Scientist, Senckenberg BiK-F, Frankfurt (Germany)

2011 – 2018          Postdoctoral Researcher (wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter), Senckenberg Biodiversity and Climate Research Centre (BiK-F), Senckenberg Gesellschaft für                                                               Naturforschung, Frankfurt (Germany)

2010 – 2011          Postdoctoral Researcher, CMEC, University of Copenhagen (Denmark)

2010                       Graduation as PhD with the dissertation “Species distributions and climate change: current patterns and future scenarios for biodiversity”

2007 – 2010          PhD student, Center for Macroecology, Evolution and Climate (CMEC), University of Copenhagen & Biodiversity and Global Change Lab, Museo Nacional de                                                        Ciencias Naturales, CSIC, Madrid (Supervisors: Prof. Dr. C. Rahbek, Prof. Dr. M.B. Araújo)

2006                        Scientific assistant (4 months), Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research – UFZ

2006                        Graduation as “Diplom-Biologe” (= M.Sc. in Biology) with the thesis “Macroecology of the European freshwater fauna” (Supervisor: Prof. Dr. R. Brandl)

1999 – 2006          Studies of Biology, University of Marburg (Germany), majors: Animal Ecology, Nature Conservation, Zoology

1998 – 1999          Civilian Service (13 months) with the Verein Jordsand e.V. (Jordsand Society for the Protection of Seabirds and the Conservation of Nature), working as a                                               nature reserve ranger at the lower Elbe River

1989 – 1998           Abitur (university-entrance qualification) at the Westerwald-Gymnasium Altenkirchen/Ww (Germany)

Ecological Society of Germany, Austria and Switzerland (GfÖ), Macroecology Specialist Group of the GfÖ (founding member), German Ornithologists’ Society (DO-G), The International Biogeography Society (IBS), Society of Island Biology, German Society for the Protection of Nature (NABU), Society for Nature Conservation and Ornithology of Rheinland-Pfalz (GNOR), Jordsand Society for Seabird Protection and Nature Conservation (Verein Jordsand)

2021                     Supervisory Award by the Graduate Center Weihenstephan of the TUM School of Life Sciences, Technical University of Munich

2019                     Horst-Wiehe Award of the Ecological Society of Germany, Austria and Switzerland

2015 - 2020         Membership of the German Young Academy (Die Junge Akademie bei der Berlin-Brandenburgischen Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Nationalen Akademie der                                  Naturforscher Leopoldina)

2009                     Poster award of the International Biogeography Society during the 4^th biennial meeting in Merida (Mexico)

2006                     PhD stipend granted by the Cusanuswerk – the German Catholic scholarship foundation for the project “Diversity, Biogeography and Macroecology of the European                                      freshwater fauna” (declined)

2004 – 2010       Scholarship granted by e-fellows.net

2001 – 2006       Student scholarship granted by the Cusanuswerk – the German Catholic scholarship foundation