Matthias C. Rillig#
| Membership Number: | 6296 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | ECOLOGY AND EVOLUTION |
| Elected: | 2022 |
| Main Country of Residence: | GERMANY |
| Homepage(s): | http://rilliglab.org |
| ORCID: | 0000-0003-3541-7853 |
| X: | @mrillig |
| Linkedin: | https://www.linkedin.com/in/rillig/ |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2013 Director, Berlin-Brandenburg Institute of Advanced Biodiversity Research (BBIB), Berlin, Germany
- 2008 Full Professor/ Chair (W3) of Plant Ecology, Institut für Biologie, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany
- 2007 - 2008 Professor (W2) of Plant Ecology, Institut für Biologie, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany
- 1999 - 2007 Assistant and Associate Professor (tenured), respectively, of Microbial Ecology, Division of Biological Sciences, University of Montana, Missoula, USA
- 1998 - 1999 Postdoctoral researcher, Carnegie Institution of Washington, Department of Plant Biology/ Stanford University, California, USA.
- 1993 - 1997 Graduate student assistant, San Diego State University, San Diego, USA
Fields of Scholarship
- Climate change
- Pollution
- Global change
- Mycorrhiza
- Fungal ecology
- Microplastic
- Soil biodiversity
Honours and Awards
- 2021 Member, German National Academy of Science - Leopoldina
- 2019 Elected Fellow, Ecological Society of America
- 2017- Clarivate Analytics ‘Highly Cited’ Researcher (2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021)
- 2016 Dahlem Research School (FU Berlin), Award for Excellent Supervision of doctoral students
- 2016 ERC Advanced Grant
- 2012 Elected Full Member, iDiv – German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research Halle-Jena-Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany
