Nils C. Stenseth#
Membership Number: | 2334 |
Membership type: | ORDINARY |
Section: | ECOLOGY AND EVOLUTION |
Elected: | 2005 |
Main Country of Residence: | NORWAY |
Homepage(s): | http://www.mn.uio.no/cees/english/people/chair/nilsst/index.html |
Present and Previous Positions
- Leader of the Centre for Ecological and Evolutionary Synthesis (CEES, Senter for fremragende forskning) at the University of Oslo
- Chief Scientist at the Norwegian Institute of Marine Research in Norway
- since 1980 Professor of population ecology and zoology at the University of Oslo
Fields of Scholarship
- Ecology
- Evolution
- Population biology
Honours and Awards
- ISI Highly Cited researcher within Ecology/Environment
- Member of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters (currently - President of the Academy)
- Member of the Royal Norwegian Society of Sciences and Letters
- Member of the French Academy of Sciences
- Member of the Academia Europaea
- Honorary degree at the University of Antwerp
- Honorary degree at the École Normale Supéreure, Lyon, France
- Honorary Professor at Addis Ababa University in Ethiopia
- Chevalier (Knight) in the French National Order of the Legion of Honour
- Member of the Scientific Council of the European Research Council (ERC)