Helge Bruelheide - Curriculum Vitae#

• 19/04/2001 Habilitation (venia legendi for botany), University of Göttingen
  
• 26/01/1995 Doctoral degree in Ecology (Dr. rer.nat.), with summa cum laude, University of Göttingen, Germany
  
• 1988 - 1989 Diploma thesis in vegetation science, with highest honours, University of Göttingen, Germany
  
• 1986 - 1988 Biology at the University of Göttingen, Germany
  
• 1981 - 1985 Biology and Geography at the University of Münster, Germany

• since 2004 Professor for Geobotany (C4) at the Institute of Biology / Geobotany and Botanical Garden, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Germany
  

• 2012 - 2019 One of the four founding directors of iDiv (German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Re-search (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig, DFG Research Centre 118)
  
• since 2025 Member of the Representation Board, the overseeing board of iDiv
  
• 2019 - 2024 Member of the Science Strategy Board, the governing board of iDiv
  
• 2001 - 2003 Assistant Professor (Oberassistent C2) in the Department of Ecology and Ecosystem Research, University of Göttingen
  
• 1995 - 2001 Research assistant (Hochschulassistent, C1) in the Department of Ecology and Ecosystem Re-search, University of Göttingen
  
• 1990 - 1996 Research assistant of the Department of Vegetation Science, Göttingen

• 418 publications in the Web of Science, H-Index 75, 24,518 times cited (as by 2026-01-08).
  
• Full list of publication

• since 2021 Member of the advisory board of the National Monitoring Centre for Biodiversity (NMZB)
  
• 2018 - 2021 Member of the Fellowship Committee of the Alexander-von-Humboldt Foundation
  
• 2016 - 2018 Member of the Leopoldina working group “Biodiversity in the Agricultural Landscape”
  
• since 2016 Principal Investigator in sMon (Biodiversity trends in Germany)
  
• 2008 - 2016 DFG Review Board „Plant sciences“ (FK 202)
  
• since 2004 Scientific Advisory Council of the Harz National Park (Wissenschaftlicher Beirat des NP Harz)
  
• since 2016 Scientific Advisory Council of the Hainich National Park (Wissenschaftlicher Beirat des NP Hain-ich).
  
• since 2013 Head of Steering Committee sPlot
  
• since 2013 Member of the Steering Committee BEF-China
  
• since 2007 Advisory Council of the “International Association of Vegetation Science” (IAVS)

• Dr. Forest, BioDiversa, DFG BR 1698/20-1
  
• Renewal proposal (3rd phase) for the German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig (FZT 118)
  
• EuropaBON, WP5, Project No. 101003553
  
• FeedBaCks, BioDiversa, ERA-Net Cofund BiodivClim, DFG BR 1698/21-1
  
• Faktencheck Artenvielfalt, BMBF, FKZ: 01LC2001F
  
• MultiTroph, DFG Research Unit FOR 5281, BR 1698/22-1