Ülo Mander#
| Membership Number: | 4006 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | EARTH & COSMIC SCIENCES |
| Elected: | 2015 |
| Main Country of Residence: | ESTONIA |
| Homepage(s): | https://www.etis.ee/portaal/isikuCV.aspx?PersonVID=21 |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2012/11 – 2016/11 Visiting Professor; HBAN Irstea, Antony/Paris, France
- 2008/10 – 2009/03 Visiting Professor, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA (Fulbright scholarship)
- 2007/10 – until present Professor Physical Geography & Landscape Ecology, Dept. Geography Head, University of Tartu, Estonia
- 1998/04 – 1998/07 Visiting Professor, Agricultural Univ. of Norway, Ås, Norway (Scholarship of the Research Council of Norway)
- 1992/10 – 2007/09 Prof. of Physical Geography & Landscape Ecology, Institute of Geography Head, University of Tartu, Estonia
- 1991/09 – 1992/09 Associate Professor (Docent), Head of the Department of Physical Geography, University of Tartu, Estonia
- 1988/02 – 1988/07 Expert of Landscape Ecology, Board of Water Management and Coasts Schleswig-Holstein, Kiel, Germany.
- 1986/10 – 1991/08 Associate Professor (Docent), Department of Land Reclamation, Estonian Agricultural University, Tartu, Estonia
- 1985/10 – 1986/06 Postdoctoral Research Associate, University of Kiel, Germany (Scholarship of DAAD)
- 1977/09 – 1986/09 Assistant and Assistant Prof. , Dept. Land Reclamation, Estonian Agricultural University, Tartu, Estonia
Fields of Scholarship
- Nutrient cycling in agricultural watersheds
- Nutrient retention and transformations in wetlands and riparian buffer zones
- Design and study of constructed wetlands for wastewater treatment
- Long-term land-use changes and their influence on landscape biogeochemistry
- Mitigation of nitrate and pesticide pollution
- Greenhouse gas fluxes from wetlands and riparian ecosystems
- Denitrification and methanogenesiss in peatlands
Honours and Awards
- 2013 Nominee for the membership of Estonian Academy of Sciences, Division of Informatics and Engineering
- 2012 Nominee for the membership of Estonian Academy of Sciences, Division of Biology, Geology and Chemistry
- 2012 Estonian Science Award, bio-and geosciences, together with Prof. K. Kirsimäe
- 2011 Theodore Hromadka Medal (Wessex Institute of Technology, UK)
- 2011 Karl Ernst von Baer Medal (Estonian Academy of Sciences)
- 2009 Order of the White Star of the Republic of Estonia
- 2003 International Association for Landscape Ecology (IALE) Distinguished Scholarship Award
- 2000 Estonian Science Award, agricultural sciences; team leader
