Curriculum Vitae Wolfgang Cramer

Positions

current:

• Co-Chair, Research Domain "Earth System Analysis", Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research
  
• Professor (chair) of Global Ecology, Institute of Geoecology, Potsdam University, since 2003

previous:

• Postdoctoral research fellow, Modelling Forest Dynamics, Institute of Plant Ecology, Uppsala University, Uppsala (Sweden), 1986
• Associate Professor for Environmental Geography, Department of Geography, Trondheim University, Trondheim (Norway), 1986-92
• Director, Dept. Geogr., Trondheim University, 1988-90
• Research Scholar, Sustainable Development of the Biosphere, International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), Laxenburg (Austria), June-July 1989
• Professor (chair) for "Energy, Environment and Society" ("Brundtland-Professor"), Center for Environment and Development, Trondheim University, 1993
• Department Head, Dept. "Global Change and Natural Systems", Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, since the establishment of the institute 1993 until 31.8.2007
• Visiting scientist, Centre Européen de Recherche et d’Enseignement des Géosciences de l’Environnement, Aix-en-Provence, France (2007-2008)

Academic training

• Geography (Diploma), Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen (Germany), 1975-81 (diploma 3.7.1981)
  
• DAAD-Fellow, Institute of Plant Ecology, Uppsala University (Sweden), 1978/79
• Vegetation Science (Ph.D.), Uppsala University, 1981-1986, Dissertation: "Vegetation Dynamics on Rising Sea-Shores in Eastern Central Sweden" (11.4.1986)
  

Publications

100+ Papers in refereed journals or book chapters, 12 edited books and journal special issues, more than 30 reports, editorials and miscellaneous publications (see separate list)

Research

Global biosphere dynamics and feedbacks between the biosphere and the rest of the Earth System including human society. Vulnerability of ecosystems to global change. Multiple research projects, funded from Norwegian and German national programmes as well as the environmental research programme of the European Union. Coordinator of the EU-Project ATEAM (17 partners) and the Concerted Action AVEC (7 partners).

Teaching

current:

• Global Ecology (Geoecology, Potsdam University)
• Supervision of Ph.D. candidates (list of ongoing dissertation projects and memberships in completed thesis committees)

previous:

• Regular lectures in geomorphology, climatology, environmental sciences, applied physical geography and landscape ecology (Trondheim)
• Exercise classes and seminars in geographic methods, graphical programming and landscape planning (Trondheim and Uppsala)
• Excursions and field courses in Norway, Sweden and Germany (Trondheim and Uppsala)
• Supervision of diploma and Ph.D. students (Trondheim and Potsdam)
• Oral and written exams of students in biology and geography (Trondheim, Bergen, Tromsø, Durham (UK), Potsdam, Mannheim, Frankfurt/Main, Paris (France))

National and international board memberships (selection)

• Member, Scientific Committee, DIVERSITAS
• Member, Scientific Committee, ICSU Programme on Ecosystem Change and Society (PECS)
• Member, Conseil Scientifique, Departement Environnement et Developpement Durable, CNRS, France
  
• Chairman, Comite Scientifique, Programme Zones Ateliers, CNRS, France
  
• Member, Conseil Scientifique et technique du CEMAGREF, France
  
• Member, Comite Scientifique, Gestion et Impacts du Changement Climatique, Ministere de l'Ecologie, de l'Energie, du Developpement Durable et de l'Amenagement du Territoire, France
  
• Member, Executive Committee, International Max-Planck Research School "Earth System Modelling"
• Member, Research Advisory Committee, Institute for Global Environmental Strategies (IGES), Kanagawa, Japan
• Member, Review Panel, Swiss National Center of Competence in Research - Climate

Global Change Impact Assessment

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)

• Second Assessment Report (1995): Lead Author, Chapter 1 (Climate Change Impacts on Forests) and Contributing Author, Introductory Material A (Primer)
• Special Report "Land Use, Land Use Change and Forestry" (2000): Lead Author, Chapter 2 (Global Perspective)
• Third Asssessment Report (2001): Lead Author, Chapter 5 (Ecosystems and their goods and services) and Chapter 13 (Europe)
• Fourth Assessment Report (2007): Review Editor, Technical Summary (with D Murdiyarso) and Chapter 4 (Ecosystems, with S Diaz)
• Scientific advisor of the German government delegation at several IPCC plenary sessions and national policy meetings

The Millennium Ecosystem Assessment

• Scenarios Working Group: Convening Lead Author (with J Alcamo and D Van Vuuren), Chapter 9 (Changes in Provisioning and Regulating Ecosystem Goods and Services and their Drivers across Scenarios)
• Conditions and Trends Working Group: Lead author, Chapter 3 (Analytical Approaches for Assessing Ecosystem Condition and Human Well-Being)

Scientific editing and reviewing

• Edited ten books / journal special issues
• Editor-in-Chief of Regional Environmental Change
• Associate Editor of Global Ecology and Biogeography
• Member of Board of Review Editors (BoRE) of SCIENCE
  
• Editorial Board Member of Advances in Global Change Research, Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability, Earth System Dynamics, Ecosystems, International Journal on Biodiversity Science, Ecosystem Services & Management, Living Reviews in Landscape Research
  
• Reviewer of:
• numerous journal contributions (i.a., Acta Botanica Fennica, Ambio, Annals of Forest Science, Applied Vegetation Science, Arctic & Alpine Research, Bioscience, Canadian Journal of Forestry, Climate Research, Climatic Change, Ecological Applications, Ecological Modelling, Ecology, Ecosystems, Environmental Monitoring and Assessment, Flora, Forest Ecology and Management, Global Biogeochemical Cycles, Global Change Biology, Global Ecology and Biogeography, Journal of Biogeography, Journal of Ecology, Journal of Experimental Botany, Journal of Hydrology, Journal of Vegetation Science, Landscape Ecology, Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies for Global Change, Nature, New Phytologist, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, Plant Ecology, Proceedings of the US National Academy of Sciences, Quaternary Science Reviews, Regional Environmental Change, Science, Sciences Géologiques, Silva Fennica, Tellus, Vegetatio, Water Air and Soil Pollution, Zeitschrift für Angewandte Umweltforschung)
• project proposals by many agencies (i.a, Academy of Finland, Agence Nationale de la Recherche (France), Australian Research Council, Belgian National Research Council, Centre Nationale de la Recherche Scientifique (France), Danmarks Grunnforskningsfond, Deutsche Gesellschaft für Luft- und Raumfahrt, the European Commission, MISTRA Research (Sweden), National Aeronautics and Space Administration (USA), Norwegian Research Council, Swedish Research Council for Environment, Agricultural Sciences and Spatial Planning, Research Council of Canada, UK National Environmental Research Council, Volkswagenstiftung)

Awards and honorary appointments

• Kungliga Vetenskaps-Societeten (Uppsala): "Linnaeus Award" (1987)
• Fridtjof-Nansen Stiftelsen (Oslo): "Fridtjof Nansen Award" (1992)
• Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University: Associate, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs (2001)
• "Best collaborative project at PIK" (2005, awarded by the "Freunde und Förderer des PIK e.V." for the PIK EVA project, shared with Anne de la Vega-Leinert, Richard J.T. Klein and all EVA collaborators)
• Zayed International Prize for the Environment 2005, for "Scientific/ Technological Achievements in Environment", shared with all other authors of the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment
• Peace Nobel Prize 2007, shared with all other members of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
• Distinguished Professorial Fellowship of Durham University's Institute of Advanced Study, Durham, UK (offer declined 2009)