Carl Beierkuhnlein - Curriculum Vitae#

Qualifications and Career

• Full Professor, Department of Biogeography, University of Bayreuth, Germany
  
• Degree programme: Diploma in Geoecology, 1983-1989
  
• Doctorate in 1994, PhD (Dr, rer, nat.) in Geoecology, Bioindication of acidified catchments

Stages of academic and professional career

• 2002 - present, Professor for Biogeography (Full Professor, W3), University of Bayreuth, Germany
  
• 1999 - 2002, Professor for Landscape Ecology (Associate Professor), University of Rostock, Germany
  
• 1999 Habilitation in Biogeography, University of Bayreuth
  
• 1991 - 1995 Freelancer in Nature Conservation
  
• 1989 - 1991 Research Scientist, NGO, Friends of the Earth, Germany

Supplementary Career Information

Supervision of Researchers in Early Career Phases

I was the supervisor of a series of PhD and habilitation candidates and Postdocs, that are now established in the scientific community such as. Prof. Sebastian Schmidtlein, Karlsruhe; PRofl Florian Wittmann, Karlsruhe; Prof. Vicky Temperton, Lüneburg; Prof. Manuel Steinbauer, Bayreuth; Prof. Jürgen Kreyling, Greifswald; Prof. Andreas Schweiger, Hohenheim; Prof. Severin Irl, Frankfurt; Prof. Gerald Jurasinski, Greifswald; Prof. Camilla Wellstein, Bolzano; Prof. Desalegn Wana, Addis Ababa; Prof. Belal Uddin, Sylhet.

In total I supervised more than 20 PhD Theses and numerous Master and Bachelor Theses. Currently, there are four postdocs, seven PhD candidates, 11 MSc candidates, and three BSc candidates in my lab.

I managed to publish in various fields related to biogeography with foci on plants and vegetation but also on vector-borne diseases.

In WoS publication record is 247 peer-reviewed papers with 16,456 citations and a h-index of 61 (23. January 2025). However, this does not include the textbooks, book chapters and practice-oriented publications in German aiming for applied fields and the general public.

Textbooks

Beierkuhnlein (2007) Biogeographie, Eugen Ulmer Verlag Stuttgart,

Nentwig W, Bacher S, Beierkuhnlein C, Brandl R, Grabherr G (2006) Ökologie, Spektrum, Hamburg,

Zöller L, Beierkuhnlein C, Samimi C, Faust D (2017) Die Physische Geographie Deutschlands. WBG, Stuttgart.

From 2015 to 2018 CB was leading the EU Horizon project ECOPOTENTIAL together with Antonello Provenzale. I was leading national research consortia such as FORKAST and biodiversa consortia such as DiMoC.

Study Programs and Teaching

CB designed the study program “Global Change Ecology M.Sc.” financed by the Elite Network of Bavaria over 10 years, incl. 6 staff positions. He initiated together with Eckhard Nagel the study program “Environment, Climate Change and Health M.Sc.”

Since 2005, lead of the La Palma Science School for international students.