Dr. Alice Boit Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) Telegrafenberg A62, 14412 Potsdam, Germany +49 (0) 331 / 288 20797 [email protected] Current position Post-doc at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK), Potsdam, Germany Research Domain I, Earth System Analysis Research projects: Role of biodiversity in climate change mitigation (ROBIN, EU-FP7); Land-use intensity and Ecological Engineering – Assessment Tools for risks and Opportunities in irrigated rice based production systems (LEGATO, BMBF FONA) Research Interests Ecological modelling and -informatics, science-based environmental protection and policy-making, science communication Research and other Professional Experience Sep 2012 – present Post-doc Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, Potsdam, Germany Large-scale vegetation modelling under future climate and land-use change with a focus on tropical forest ecosystems and the effects of plant biodiversity on ecosystem functioning and services. Feb 2009 – Aug 2012 PhD University of Applied Sciences Bremen and Institute of Automation, Bremen, Germany User interface development for pictographic programming of rehabilitation robot FRIEND II. Feb 2006 – Sep 2006 Activist Greenpeace Brazil, Manaus, Brazil Campaign work on illegal logging and soy plantations. Oct 2005 – Jan 2006 Activist Ecotrackers network, Quito, Ecuador Campaign work on deforestation and ecotourism. Alice Boit, Resume | 1/28/2016 Dep. of Ecology and Ecosystem Modelling, University of Potsdam, Germany Dynamic modelling of food web dynamics and plankton succession in Lake Constance. Thesis title: “Mechanistic theory and modelling of complex ecological networks”. Supervised by Prof. Ursula Gaedke in collaboration with Prof. Neo Martinez and Dr. Rich Williams at the Pacific Ecoinformatics and Computational Ecology Lab, Berkeley, CA, and Dr. Lucas Joppa at Microsoft Research Cambridge, United Kingdom. Oct 2006 – Dec 2008 Research assistant 1 Feb 2005 – Sep 2005 Traineeship Media research unit at Greenpeace International, Amsterdam, the Netherlands Monitoring, filtering and organizing information and market intelligence into databases for briefs and reports to ensure that strategic information was available to Greenpeace campaigners. Mar 2004 –Dec 2004 DAAD postgraduate fellowship Auckland Bioengineering Institute, Auckland, New Zealand 3D-Modelling of virtual heart muscle cells using finite element models. Feb 2001 – Oct 2003 Student assistant Konrad Zuse Institute of Information Technology, Berlin, Germany 3D-Modelling of RNA folding dynamics. Teaching and Public Outreach Winter semester 2014/15 and 2015/16 Lectures ‘Die Erde als System‘ and ‘Globale Ökologie‘, Institute of Earth and Environmental Science, University of Potsdam Summer semester 2014 and 2015 Lecture & Seminar ‘Modellierung erdsystemarer Prozesse‘, Institute of Earth and Environmental Science, University of Potsdam 2011 – 2012 Leibnizkolleg Potsdam 2012: ‘Learning from Nature - Towards a circular economy’, University of Potsdam 2011 – 2012 Participation in lecture 'Ökologie 1', University of Potsdam 2010 – 2011 Co-lecturing ecology and statistics tutoring, Institute of Biochemistry and Biology, University of Potsdam 2009 – 2012 Talks on the ecological effects of industrial agriculture and meat consumption at the annual event ‘Lange Nacht der Wissenschaften’, University of Potsdam 2006 – 2007 Tutoring robotics using LEGO Mindstorms in a high-school project, University of Bremen Scholarships 2009 Microsoft Research scholarship (€100,000) 2009 Heinrich-Böll Foundation research scholarship (€45,000) 2004 DAAD research scholarship (€10,000) 03/09 – 08/12 Dissertation “magna cum laude”, Institute of Biochemistry and Biology, Department of Ecology and Ecosystem Modelling, University of Potsdam, Germany 10/06 – 12/08 M. Sc. Media Informatics, University of Applied Sciences, Bremen, Germany 03/04 – 10/04 Postgraduate research, Auckland Bioengineering Institute, University of Auckland, New Zealand 10/01 – 10/03 M.Sc. Biology and Bioinformatics, Humboldt University of Berlin, Germany 10/98 – 07/01 B.Sc. Biology, Humboldt University of Berlin, Germany 06/98 German Abitur Alice Boit, Resume | 1/28/2016 Education 2 Computational skills Proficiency in object-oriented programming (C++, C#), database development (MySQL), scripting (Matlab, R), web-programming and content management systems (PHP, HTML/CSS, Typo3), experience in using GIS-Software (ESRI ArcGIS 10) Languages German (native), English (full working proficiency), Spanish (fluent), Portuguese (good working knowledge) Other skills Statistical analysis and visualization of large datasets, extensive experience in acquisition of third-party funding, e.g. DFG (Priority program), EU (Horizon2020), BMBF (FONA), BMUB (Internationale Klimainitiative), BMELV (Waldklimafonds), Belmont Forum Professional memberships IUCN Commission on Ecosystem Management (CEM) Gesellschaft für Ökologie e.V. Publications ISI-indexed publications Cano-Crespo A, PJC Oliveira, A Boit, M Cardoso, and K Thonicke (2015). Forest edge burning in the Brazilian Amazon promoted by escaping fires from managed pastures, Journal of Geophysical Research Biogeosciences, 120, 2095–2107 Poorter L, MT van der Sande, J Thompson, EJMM Arets, A Alarcón, J Álvarez-Sánchez, N Ascarrunz, P Balvanera, G Barajas-Guzmán, A Boit, F Bongers, FA Carvalho, F Casanoves, G Cornejo-Tenorio, FRC Costa, CV de Castilho, JF Duivenvoorden, LP Dutrieux, BJ Enquist, F Fernández-Méndez, B Finegan, LHL Gormley, JR Healey, MR Hoosbeek, G Ibarra-Manríquez, AB Junqueira, C Levis, JC Licona, LS Lisboa, WE Magnusson, M Martínez-Ramos, A Martínez-Yrizar, LG Martorano, LC Maskell, L Mazzei, JA Meave, F Mora, R Muñoz, C Nytch, MP Pansonato, TW Parr, H Paz, M Simoes Penello, EA Pérez-García, LY Rentería, J RodríguezVelazquez, DMA Rozendaal, AR Ruschel, B Sakschewski, B Salgado Negret, J Schietti, FL Sinclair, PF Souza, FC Souza, J Stropp, H ter Steege, NG Swenson, K Thonicke, M Toledo, M Uriarte, P van der Hout, P Walker, N Zamora, M Peña-Claros. Diversity enhances carbon storage in tropical forests. Global Ecology and Biogeography (2015), 24 (11): 1314-1328 Sakschewski B, W von Bloh, A Boit, A Rammig, J Kattge, L Poorter, J Peñuelas, K Thonicke (2015). Leaf and stem economics spectra drive diversity of functional plant traits in a dynamic global vegetation model. Global Change Biology (2015), 21 (7): 2711–2725 Boit A, U Gaedke: Benchmarking Successional Progress in a Quantitative Food Web. PLoS ONE (2014), 9(2): e90404. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0090404 Mirhaj M, A Boit, MA Razzak, MA Wahab (2013). Yield performance comparison between integrated cultures of rice cum prawn (M. rosenbergii) and rice cum fish (C. carpio, O. niloticus) in North-Eastern Bangladesh, Aquaculture, 393-295: 26-33 Alice Boit, Resume | 1/28/2016 Reyer C, S Adams, T Albrecht, F Baarsch, A Boit, N Canales Trujillo, M Cartsburg, D Coumou, A Eden, E Fernandes, F Langerwisch, R Marcus, M Mengel, D Mira-Salama, M Perette, P Pereznieto, A Rammig, J Reinhardt, A Robinson, M Rocha, B Sakschewski, M Schaeffer, CF Schleussner, O Serdeczny, K Thonicke (2015). Climate change impacts in Latin America and the Caribbean and their implications for development. Regional Environmental Change, 1-21 3 Boit A, ND Martinez, RJ Williams, and U Gaedke (2012). Mechanistic theory and modelling of complex foodweb dynamics in Lake Constance, Ecology Letters (2012), 15 (6): 594-602 Kefi S, E Berlow, E Wieters, S Navarrete, O Petchey, S Wood, A Boit, L Joppa, K Lafferty, R Williams, N Martinez, B Menge, C Blanchette, A Iles, U Brose (2012). More than a meal… Integrating non-feeding interactions into food webs, Ecology Letters, 15 (4): 291-300 Mulder C, A Boit, S Mori, J. A. Vonk, S. D. Dyer, L. Faggiano, S. Geisen, A. Gonzalez, M. Kaspari, S. Lavorel, P. A. Marquet, A.G. Rossberg, R. W. Sterner, W. Voigt, and D. H. Wall (2012). Distributional (in)congruence of Biodiversity-Ecosystem Functioning, In: Guy Woodward, Editor(s), Advances in Ecological Research, Academic Press (2012), 46: 1-88 Mulder C, A Boit, M Bonkowski, PC De Ruiter, G Mancinelli, MGA Van der Heijden, HJ Van Wijnen, JA Vonk, M Rutgers (2011). A Belowground Perspective on Dutch Agroecosystems: How Soil Organisms Interact to Support Ecosystem Services, In: Guy Woodward, Editor(s), Advances in Ecological Research, Academic Press, 44: 277-357 Public reports Alice Boit, Resume | 1/28/2016 Schellnhuber HJ, C Reyer, W Hare, K Waha, IM Otto, O Serdeczny, M Schaeffer, CF Schleußner, D Reckien, R Marcus, O Kit, A Eden, S Adams, V Aich, T Albrecht, F Baarsch, A Boit, N Canales Trujillo, M Cartsburg, D Coumou, M Fader, H Hoff, G Jobbins, L Jones, L Krummenauer, F Langerwisch, V Le Masson, E Ludi, M Mengel, J Möhring, B Mosello, A Norton, M Perette, P Pereznieto, A Rammig, J Reinhardt, A Robinson, M Rocha, B Sakschewski, S Schaphoff, J Schewe, J Stagl, K Thonicke (2014). Turn Down the Heat: Confronting the New Climate Normal. The World Bank, Washington 4
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