Holger Kreft#
Photo: Christoph Mischke/Universität Göttingen
| Membership Number: | 6889 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | ECOLOGY AND EVOLUTION |
| Elected: | 2024 |
| Main Country of Residence: | GERMANY |
| Homepage(s): | https://www.uni-goettingen.de/biodiversity |
| ORCID: | 0000-0003-4471-8236 |
| Twitter: | @BioGeoKreft |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2017 - today Full professor (W3), Head of the Department of Biodiversity, Macroecology & Biogeography, Georg-August-University Göttingen
- 2015 - 2017 Associate professor (W2, tenured), Head of the Department of Biodiversity, Macroecology & Biogeography, Georg-August-University Göttingen
- 2009 - 2015 Assistant professor (W1, tenure-track), Head of Free Floater Junior Research Group Biodiversity, Macroecology & Conservation Biogeography Georg-August-University Göttingen
- 2009 Postdoctoral fellow, Yale University and University of Bonn, Hosts: Prof. Dr. Walter Jetz & Prof. Dr. Wilhelm Barthlott
- 2008 - 2009 Postdoctoral fellow, University of California, San Diego, Host: Prof. Dr. Walter Jetz
- 2007 Postdoctoral researcher, Long-term research project Biodiversity under Change, Academy of Sciences and Literature, Mainz
Fields of Scholarship
- Macroecology
- Tropical ecology
- Ecoinformatics
- Biodiversity science
- Biogeography
Honours and Awards
- since 2020 Highly Cited Researcher in the field of Cross-Field
- 2020 Deputy Editor-in-Chief Journal of Biogeography
- 2015 Wissenschaftspreis Niedersachsen (Science Award of Lower Saxony), Ministry for Science and Culture of Lower Saxony
- 2009 Feodor Lynen Return Fellowship, Alexander von Humboldt-Foundation
- 2008 - 2009 Feodor Lynen Research Fellowship, Alexander von Humboldt-Foundation
- 2008 Postdoctoral Fellowship, German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina (declined)
- 2006 Merian Award, German Society for Tropical Ecology
- 2004 - 2006 PhD Scholarship, Studienstiftung (German National Academic Foundation)
- 2003 Alwyn Gentry Award, Association of Tropical Biology and Conservation
- 1998 - 2002 Scholarship, Evangelisches Studienwerk Villigst e.V.
