Jens-Christian Svenning#
| Membership Number: | 7217 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | ECOLOGY AND EVOLUTION |
| Elected: | 2025 |
| Main Country of Residence: | DENMARK |
| Homepage(s): | https://pure.au.dk/portal/en/persons/svenning@bio.au.dk |
| ORCID: | 0000-0002-3415-0862 |
| X: | @JCSvenning |
| Facebook: | https://www.facebook.com/jcsvenning |
| Linkedin: | https://www.linkedin.com/in/svenning/ |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2023 Director, DNRF Center for Ecological Dynamics in a Novel Biosphere (ECONOVO), Dept. Biology, Aarhus University
- 2013 Professor, Dept. Biology/Bioscience, Aarhus University
- 2017 - 2023 Director, Center for Biodiversity Dynamics in a Changing World (BIOCHANGE), Dept. Biology/Bioscience, Aarhus University
- 2009 - 2013 Professor (mso), Dept. Bioscience/Dept. Biological Sciences, Aarhus University
- 2005 - 2008 Associate Professor, Dept. Biological Sciences, Aarhus University
- 2002 - 2005 Assistant Professor, Dept. Biological Sciences, Aarhus University
- 2000 - 2002 Postdoc, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institution, Panama
- 1994, 1996 - 1999 PhD student position, Dept. Biological Sciences, Aarhus University
- 1994 - 1995 Field Coordinator, Yasuní Forest Dynamics Project (Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador, Aarhus University), Ecuador
Fields of Scholarship
- Conservation science
- Biogeography
- Ecosystem restoration and rewilding
- Biodiversity dynamics
- Ecoinformatics and remote sensing
- Human-environment interactions
- Paleoecology
- Vegetation ecology
- Tropical ecology
- Macroecology
- Global change ecology
Honours and Awards
- 2025 Alexander von Humboldt Medal for Excellence in Vegetation Science, International Association for Vegetation Science (IAVS)
- 2023 Carlsberg Foundation Research Prize, Carlsberg Foundation
- 2022 Ernst Haeckel Prize, European Ecological Federation
- 2022 Distinguished Fellow, International Biogeography Society, International Biogeography Society
- 2021 Villum Kann Rasmussen Annual Award in Science and Technology, VILLUM FONDEN (the largest individual Danish research award)
- 2017 Distinguished Fellow, Chinese Academy of Sciences’ President’s International Fellowship Initiative (PIFI)
- 2016 Queen Margrethe II’s Science Award, Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters
- 2014 EliteForsk Prize, Danish Ministry of Higher Education and Science
- 2013 ERC Starting Grant (Consolidator phase), European Research Council (HISTFUNC)
- 2011 Ebbe Nielsen Prize, Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF)
- 2011 Elected Fellow, Danish Academy of Natural Sciences
- 2010 Elected Fellow, Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters
