Ulrike Tappeiner

Name: Univ.-Prof. emerita Dr. Ulrike Tappeiner
Position: Professor emerita for Ecosystem Research and Landscape Ecology
Fields of Scholarship: Ecosystem research and Landscape Ecology of mountain environment on various temporal and spatial scales ranging from ecosystem to landscape level with a special focus on global change, biogeochemical cycles, functional biodiversity, ecosystem services, sustainable development
Co-ordinator, principal investigator and work package leader in EU-projects i.e. SUSTALP, ECOMONT, CARBOMONT, DIAMONT, VITAL CAMELEON, REGARDS as well as in national funded research projects (i.e. FWF, ProVision, Sparkling Science, ACRP Climate and Energy Fund, Autonome Provinz Bozen- Südtirol).
Publications
• More than 200 international peer-reviewed publications, 23 books
• More than 250 outreach articles in newspapers, newsletters, radio and tv interviews
Services to the scientific community:
• Reviewer for various research councils, scientific journals
• Member of several international advisory boards and steering committees as well as various national and international societies and associations, organizer and member of the program committee of national and international conferences, workshops and schools
Professional Career:
2018 - 2026 President of the Free University of Bozen/Bolazano
2012 – 2018 Dean of the Faculty of Biology, University of Innsbruck
2006 – 2012 Head of the Institute of Ecology, University of Innsbruck
2006 – 2025 Co-ordination of the research centre ‘Ecology of the Alpine Regions’ at the University of Innsbruck
2005 – 2025 Full Professor of Ecosystem Research and Landscape Ecology, Institute of Ecology, University of Innsbruck
2005 Offer to become Full Professor of Ecosystem Research at Univ. Münster, Germany, (declined)
1995 – present Head of the Institute for Alpine Environment of the European Academy, Bolzano/Bozen, Italy
1994 - 2004 Invited Visiting Lecturer and Visiting Research Fellow at the University of Bayreuth, the University of Evora, Portugal, the University of Trier and the Georgian Academy of Sciences, Tbilisi
1985 – 1996 Assistant Professor (Universitätsassistent), Institute of Botany (Department of Ecology) University of Innsbruck
Education: 1996 Habilitation (Venia docendi) in ecology at the University of Innsbruck
1985 PhD in biology / informatics at the University of Innsbruck