Wim van der Putten#
| Membership Number: | 5869 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | ECOLOGY AND EVOLUTION |
| Elected: | 2021 |
| Main Country of Residence: | THE NETHERLANDS |
| Homepage(s): | http://nioo.knaw.nl/en/employees/wim-van-der-putten%20 |
| ORCID: | 0000-0002-9341-4442 |
| Linkedin: | https://nl.linkedin.com/in/wim-van-der-putten-09614920 |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2003 Professor Functional Biodiversity at Wageningen University
- 2000 Head of Multitrophic Interactions Department at the Netherlands Institute of Ecology, at Heteren. later: Department of Terrestrial Ecology, Wageningen, the Netherlands
- 1997 Interim-Head of Department Plant Microorganism Interactions
- 1994 - 1999 Senior Scientist in the Department of Plant Microorganism Interactions at the Netherlands Institute of Ecology, Department of Terrestrial Ecology, Heteren, the Netherlands.
- 1991 - 1994 Senior Scientist: Co-ordinator Project Group for Applied Ecology at the Institute for Ecological Research, Heteren, the Netherlands
- 1988 - 1991 Post-Doc at the Institute for Ecological Research, Heteren, the Netherlands in order to study emergent aquatic plants and to initiate a Project Group for Applied Research
- 1984 - 1988 Institute for Ecological Research, Department of Dune research 'Weevers'Duin', Oostvoorne, the Netherlands: study on sand stabilization by Marram grass (Ammophila arenaria) and the involvement of soil-borne diseases in its degeneration
Fields of Scholarship
- Climate change
- Land use change
- Biological invasions
- Aboveground-belowground interactions
- Soil ecology
- Soil biodiversity
- Biodiversity
- Terrestrial ecology
- Restoration ecology
Honours and Awards
- 2019 Honorary Professor Grassland Research Institute (GRI) of the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences (CAAS)
- 2018 Highly cited researcher in cross-field domain (Clarivate Analytics)
- 2016 Board of Reviewing Editors Science
- 2015 Elected member of the Royal Academy of Arts and Sciences
- 2012 ERC-Advanced grant for work on aboveground-belowground community re-assemblages under global warming
- 2009 Visiting scientist at Centre for Population Biology, Imperial College at Silwood Park, UK
- 2007 Teachers award Wageningen University
- 2004 VICI-award Dutch Research Council for personal innovation (1.25 M Euro)
- 2003/4 Visiting scientist at Landcare Research institute New Zealand
