Prof. em. Dr. Felix Kienast

Prof. em. Dr.  Felix Kienast

Prof. em. Dr. Felix Kienast

Retired Adjunct Professor at the Department of Environmental Systems Science

WSL/ETHZ

Landscape Ecology Group

Zürcherstrasse 111

8903 Birmensdorf ZH

Switzerland

Additional information

Felix Kienast has been Titular Professor for Landscape Ecology at the Department of Environmental Sciences at ETH Zurich since March 2007.



Felix was born in 1958 in Switzerland. He studied geography at the University of Zürich, writing his PhD on the influences of site and weather properties on tree ring formation. He graduated in 1985 and spent the next two years at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA, where he supervised a modeling project addressing impacts of changing climate on tree growth, forest succession and land-use. He was appointed Senior Lecturer in Landscape Ecology at the University of Bern in 1996, and in 2005 at ETHZ. Since 1988 he has been with the Swiss Federal Research Institute WSL in Birmensdorf.



His research concentrates on: (a) the evaluation of historic and present landscape patterns and processes; (b) landscape models designed for simulating potential future landscape development; and (c) the interactions between landscape change and ecological as well as socio-economical properties. Felix Kienast is actively involved in several national projects on landscape development and restoration, e.g. the search for biosphere reserves or river restoration sites.



Felix Kienast is on the Editorial Boards of Landscape Ecology, Environmental Management, and is Bulletin Editor of the International Association for Landscape Ecology.

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