Curriculum vitae of Dirk S. Schmeller
Born in Germany at the 07.07.70, and of heart a Palatinian (än eschde Gimmeldinger, eichentlisch).
Major academic appointments
Since August 2007
Senior Researcher (IR) of the CNRS at the Station d'Ecologie Experimentale du CNRS, Moulis, France (J. Clobert).
August 2005 - April 2008
Coordinator of the EuMon-Project at the Environmental Research Center (UFZ) Halle - Leipzig, Department Conservation Biology (Prof. K. Henle)
July 2005 - August 2006
EGIDE-Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Angers, Department of Zoology, Division of Animal Ecology (Profs. T. Lodé, A. Pagano)
November 2004 - June 2005
Cooperation with the University of Lyon I, UMR 5023, Department of Zoology, Division of Animal Ecology (Prof. P. Joly)
September 2004 - August 2005
KONE-scholarship holder at the University of Helsinki, Department of Ecology and Systematics, Division of Population biology (EGRU, Prof. J. Merilä)
September 2002 - August 2004
Alexander-v.-Humbolt/Academy of Finland scholarship holder at the University of Helsinki, Department of Ecology and Systematics, Division of Population biology (Prof. J. Merilä)
June - July 2002
Postdoctoral fellow at the University of Helsinki, Department of Ecology and Systematics, Division of Population biology (Prof. J. Merilä)
March - May 2002
Marie Curie-scholarship at the University of Jyväskylä, Department of Biological and Environmental Sciences, Evolutionary Ecology (Profs. V. Kaitala, R. Alatalo)
May 2000 - February 2002
Assistant professor at the Fac. of Biology, Department of Nature Conservation (Prof. Dr. H. Plachter)
February 1996 - April 2000
Scientific assistant at the chair of ecology, Department of Zoology V (Prof. Dr. A. Seitz)
Education
April 1996 - September 1999
Study of geography with emphasis on climatology and geo-morphology.
April 1996 - September 1999
Completion of my PhD thesis on the hemiclonal inheritance of hy-bridogenetic waterfrogs and its impact on the demographic and genetic structure of populations.
This thesis was conducted in cooperation with the biological station Tour du Valat (Camargue, France).
March - December 1995
Completion of my masters thesis with the subject genetic structure of the grasshopper species Platycleis albopunctata (GOEZE, 1776) under consideration of various environmental factors.
April 1993 to February 1995
Main study of biology at the Johannes Gutenberg-University in Mainz (Germany).
Subjects: zoology, botany, microbiology and public relations.
At the 10th of February 1995 masters exam
May 1991 to April 1993
Basic study of biology at the Johannes Gutenberg-University in Mainz (Germany).
Subjects: mathematics, botany, zoology and chemistry
Bachelor exam on the 19th of April 1993
Teaching Expertise
SEMINARS
Cladistics Literature Seminar (3rd year, 2003, together with K. Lindström)
Levels of Selection in Evolution (3rd year, 2002)
Hotspots and Diversity (3rd year, 2001)
Population genetics (2nd year, 2000)
Animal Populations and Nature Conservation (3rd year, 2000)
Landscape Ecology (3rd year, 2000)
Biology of vertebrates II, Amphibians (3rd year, 1999)
COURSES
Comportement reproducteur d’amphibien
Workshop Reproductive Success (4th year, 2003, together with K. Lindström)
Introduction to Population Biology (methods and analysis; 3rd year, 2000)
Population Ecology (4th year, 2000)
10-days Summer camp assistance in Mislinja (Slovenia, pupils, 2000)
Population Genetics (4th year, 1999)
1994 - 1998
Animal identification on the species level - general zoology (1st year)
Morphology of animals (2nd year)
Cytology (3rd year)
Limnology (4th year)
Population biology (4th year)
EXCURSIONS
Ecological excursion to Pesina (Italy), animal communities at Mount Baldo (2000)
Zoological excursions (2nd year, 2001)
Conservation biological excursion to Slovenia and Croatia (4th year, 2001)
Flora and fauna in the Alps (all years)
Amphibians (all years)
LECTURES
Introduction to Population Genetics (3rd year, 2000 and 2001)
Introduction to Nature Conservation (as co-lecturer of Prof. Plachter; 3rd year, 2000)
COMPUTER COURSES
1996 - 1999 (for members of working group):
MS Office, HTML, Novell Netware, Freelance
Invited talks
08.11.2006
Institute of Ecology, University of Bremen, Germany
27.06.2006
Laboratoire Ecologie, Systématique et Èvolution, CNRS / Université Paris-Sud 11, France
24.05.2006
Community Ecology, University of Bern, Switzerland
21.06.2006
Institute of Ecology, University of Darmstadt, Germany
14.03.2006
Département de biologie évolutive, Université de Rennes 1, France
08.05.2002
University of Jyväskylä, Department of Biological and Environmental Sciences
Ecology and Environmental Management & Hydrobiology, Finland
21.05.2001
Botanico drustvo Slovenije, Ljubljana, Slovenia
03.01.2001
Dept. of Ecology, Prof. H.U- Reyer, University of Zurich, Switzerland
17.04.2000
Chair of biogeography, Prof. P. Müller, University of Trier, Germany
08.05.2000
Inst. für Natur, Landschafts- und Umweltschutz, Abt. Biologie, Prof. B. Baur, University of Basel, Switzerland
01.02.2000
Large Animal Research Group, Prof. T. Clutton-Brock, Cambridge, UK
Review work
Reviews pour: Bulletin of the Zoological Museum, Behavioural Ecology and Sociobiology, Biota, Evolutionary Ecology, Oikos, Molecular Ecology, Oecologia, Behavioural Ecology, Ecology Letters, Biodiversity and Conservation, Conservation Biology, Alytes, American Naturalist, Journal of Heredity, The Herpetological Journal
Evaluation of projects: FNR - Luxembourg, Polish Science Foundation, Israel Science Foundation, Czech Academy of Science, Deutsche Forschungsgesellschaft, Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung
Press activity
Schmeller D.S. (2008): Ursachen für den Verlust der Artenvielfalt, Online dossier Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung, http://www.bpb.de/themen/L15AP3,0,0,Ursachen_f%FCr_den_Verlust_von_Tierarten.html
Schmeller D.S. (2007): Les grenouilles vertes indigènes menacées. Communiqué de presse CNRS.
Schmeller D.S. (2007): Einheimische Wasserfrösche sind bedroht. Communiqué de presse d’UFZ, Leipzig
Günther Koch (2001) : Kindchenschema spielt oft eine wichtige Rolle, Hessen Rundschau 19.08.2001
Günther Koch (2001) : Intelligente Delphine und unbequeme Stechmücken, Hessen Rundschau 19.08.2001
Tilo Arnhold (2007) : Einheimische Wasserfrösche sind bedroht, AquaGlobe Project, Newsropa, Innovations Report
Tilo Arnhold (2007) : Keine Chance für Einheimische, Scienzz
Tilo Arnhold (2007) : Indigenous Water Frogs In Europe Under Threat, Science Daily
Joachim Müller-Jung (2007): Riese mit Drang nach Westen, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung
N.N. (2007) : Wasserfrösche in Europa bedroht, Spiegel 50/2007: 142
Tobias Schmidt (2007): Der Frosch lacht nicht mehr, Süddeutsche Zeitung
A. Springer (2008) : Gourmet-Frösche vertreiben einheimische Quaker, Scinexx
Dominique Delpiroux (2008) : Les filles de l’Est font tourner la tète aux-males, La Depeche 21.01.2008
Alexandra Schwartzbrod (2008) : Et croît la grenouille rieuse, La Libération 19.01.2008
Radio
Schmeller D.S. (2000): Das Kindchen-Schema, Der Tag, Hessischer Rundfunk HR3
Schmeller D.S. (2008): Introduction of waterfrogs – risks for indigenous species, Interview Radio France International (RFI).
Editorial work
Member of the Editorial Board of the Bulletin of the Zoological Museum, Berlin, 1999 - 2001
Biota - Journal of Biology and Ecology, Member of the Editorial Board, 1999-2001
Biodiversity and Conservation - Associate Editor, 2007 -
Diversity - Associate Editor, 2009 -
Additional Expertise
Organisiation of the symposium The Evolution of Asexual Reproduction at the ESEB meeting in Krakow, Poland, 2005
Member of the organizing committee of the Extinction Thresholds-meeting held in Helsinki, Finland, 2002
Member of the expert comittee of the Henry Ford Conservation Awards Germany, section nature conservation, since 2001
Member of the committee on Alpine ecology (organisational committee for the 1st international scientific meeting on the biology and ecology of alpine amphibians and reptiles in Slovenia in Sep. 2000), 1999 - 2000
Installation and maintenance of a WWW-server at perdix.biologie.uni-mainz.de, 1996 - 2000
Organisation of the 3rd international symposium on the Genetics, Systematics, and Ecology of Western Palearctic water frogs,1999
Revival of a information pool for waterfrog scientists together with P. Beerli at Prof. Felsensteins lab using internet facilities at evolution.genetics.washington.edu , 1997
Freelancer at the publishing house of Spektrum der Wissenschaft, 1997 - 2006
Scientific congresses
2006
ISEB meeting, Tours (France)
Meeting of the Scientific working group of the Habitats Directive Committee, Brussels (Belgium)
EPBRS-meeting, Helsinki (Finland)
GMO meeting, Bonn (Germany)
2005
INWAT, Biological invasion in inland waters (Firenze, Italy)
11th Meeting of the European Society of Evolutionary Biology (Krakow, Poland)
2004
Meeting of the Nordic Network in Environmental Stress Research (NONESTRES), Roenbjerg (Denmark)
Meeting of the International Society for Behavioral Ecology (ISBE), Jyväskylä (Finland)
2003
Meeting of the Nordic Network in Environmental Stress Research (NONESTRES), Kilpisjärvi (Finland)
10th Meeting of the European Society of Evolutionary Biology (Leeds, UK)
2002
Extinction treshold meeting (Helsinki, Finland)
2001
Meeting of the Deutsche Zoologische Gesellschaft (Osnabrück, Germany)
Workshop on spatial ecology (Tvärminne, Finland)
2000
Meeting of the Deutsche Zoologische Gesellschaft (Bonn, Germany)
Unofficial MAB-meeting (Tblissi, Georgia)
1st international scientific meeting on the biology and ecology of alpine amphibians and reptiles (Nazarje, Slovenia)
1999
Meeting of the Deutsche Zoologische Gesellschaft (Innsbruck, Austria)
III. International Symposium on "Genetics, Systematics and Ecology of western Palearctic Waterfrogs" (Berlin, Germany)
1998
9th Official meeting of the Societas Europea Herpetologica (SEH; Chambéry, France)
1997
3rd World congress of Herpetology (Prague, Czech Republic)
1996
Meeting of orthopterologists (Marburg, Germany)
Meeting of the Deutsche Zoologische Gesellschaft (Bonn, Germany)
Meeting of the German Ecological Society (Oldenburg, Germany)