Leif Asbjørn Vøllestad#
| Membership Number: | 4042 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | ECOLOGY AND EVOLUTION |
| Elected: | 2015 |
| Main Country of Residence: | NORWAY |
| Homepage(s): | http://uio.no/ibv/english |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2014 - present Fellow, Centre for Computational Inference in Evolutionary Life Science (CELS), University of Oslo
- 2007 - present Fellow, Norwegian Centre for Excellence – Centre for Ecological and Evolutionary Synthesis (CEES), Department of Biosciences, University of Oslo
- 2001 - 2002 Visiting scholar, School of Aquatic and Fishery Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle, USA
- 2005 - present Editor, Ecology of Freshwater Fish
- 1991 - present Professor, Department of Biosciences, University of Oslo
- 1985 - 1991 Fisheries manager, Environmental Department, Østfold County
- 1986, 1988 Researcher, Department of Biology, University of Oslo
- 1983 - 1985 Ph. D. scholarship, University of Oslo
- 1982 - 1983 Freelance consultant in freshwater biology (field studies, advice, etc.)
Fields of Scholarship
- Fish ecology
- Freshwater biology
- Population dynamics
- Population biology
- Life history theory
- Evolution (with focus on adaptation and phenotypic plasticity)
- Fish management (including the study of anthropogenic effects)
