Tobias Kuemmerle

Tobias Kuemmerle is a professor at the Geography Department at Humboldt-University Berlin. He is an interdisciplinary scientist working at the intersection of geography, ecology, sustainability science, and conservation science. His research focuses on three overarching questions: (1) Where and why does land use change?  (2) How does land use impact biodiversity, including through interactions with other threats?  (3) Which conservation strategies balance biodiversity and land resource use? His research approach is highly collaborative and uses concepts and tools from a wide range of fields (e.g., spatial ecology, geospatial Simulation Modelling (ABM/Predictive/Economic modelling), Earth Observation/Remote Sensing, Statistics/Econometrics, impact evaluation, qualitative research methods). Geographically, he work in many different systems, but the focus of his work currently is on tropical dry woodlands globally and in South America.

He has a Diplom in Applied Environmental Sciences from the University of Trier (2003) and a PhD in Geography from Humboldt-University Berlin in 2008. His career path includes postdoctoral stays at the University of Wisconsin-Madison (2008-2010) and the Postdam Institute for Climate impact Research (2010-2011). In 2012, he became an Einstein Junior Fellow Professor at the Geography Department of Humboldt-University Berlin, which transitioned into a full professorship in 2015.