Carsten Rahbek

Education

MSc Zoology, (1992); PhD Biogeography, (1995) University of Copenhagen.

Research fields

Biodiversity, macroecology, evolution, biogeography, ecology, environmental economy, null model, predictive model, cost-efficiency and priority analyses, human health relations.

Current appointments

• Full Professor, Natural History Museum of Denmark, University of Copenhagen, Denmark. (2013-present);
• Professor Chair of Macroecology (20%), Imperial College, UK (2013-  present);
• Adjunct Professor at Peking University (2012-present);
• Centerdirector, DNRF Center for Macroecology, Evolution and Climate (2010-present).

Past appointments

• Full Professor, Department of Biology, Univ. of Copenhagen (2008-2013)
• Professor MSO, Zoological Museum, Univ. of Copenhagen (2005-2008);
• Curator of Birds, Zoological Museum, Univ. of Copenhagen (1998–2005);
• Asso. Professor, Zoological Museum, Univ. of Copenhagen (1998–2001);
• Assist. Professor, Zoological Museum, Univ. of Copenhagen (1995–1998);.

Grants

Personal research grants since 2010 total >180 million DKK (~21 million £) from Danish, Norwegian, German, British and US national science foundations, governmental bodies and private foundations, as well as from EU, OECD, Worldbank, UNEP, and UN.

Publications

• 369 publications (including a 869-page monographs) listed in Google
• Scholar and  302 papers listed in Web-of-Science “all databases” (including
• 14xScience, 8xNature, 7xPNAS, 13xProc. R. Soc. Lond.);
• Bibliometric from Google Scholar:
• >20,300 citations (adding >2300 per year)
• h-index 71;
• i10- index 173;
• 11 papers cited >500 times; and 50> 100 times.

Fellowships and stays abroad

• Bingzhi Forum Professorship at Institute of Zoology, Chinese Acad. of Sciences (2012);
• Visiting Research fellow at the NMNH, Smithsonian, USA (1994-1995);
• Fulbright Research Fellow at the NMNH, Smithsonian, USA (1993–1994)
• Visiting graduate student, University of Wisconsin, USA (1990–1991);

Awards and Honors

• The Villum Kann Rasmussen's Annual Award for Technical and Scientific Research – the highest personal research award in Denmark (2012).
• Last Round Nominee for the Kyoto Prize in Biological Science (2012);
• Danish 'Elite Researcher Price' – the highest personal research award in Denmark given by the government (2010)

• One first- and one second-authored paper was in 2007 and 2010, the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of Natural History Science Achievement Award, respectively.
• Elected Member of the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters (2006);
• Elected member of The International Ornithological Committee (2002);
• Fulbright Scholar (1993).

Editorial Boards

• Adjunct Editor of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States (2018)
• Editorial Advisory Council of Frontiers of Biogeography (2018-present)
• Editor-in-Chief of Ecography (IF>5) 2004-2014 (journal has >30 subject
• editors), now EiC emeritus;
• Publication Board of Oikos (2004-2014)
• Publication Board of Journal of Avian Biology (2004-2014)
• Subject Editor of Journal of Ornithology (2003-2008);
• Editorial Advisory Board of Global Ecology and Biogeography (2002-2005);

Leadership

Institutional leadership at University of Copenhagen

• Member of ILT (Institutional Leaderteam) of the Natural History Museum of Denmark, UC (2013-present);
• Section Head of the Biodiversity Section, Natural History Museum of Denmark, UC (2013-2015; 2017-present);
• Member of ILT (Institute Leaderteam) of the Department of Biology, UC (2008-2013);
• Board Member of the Faculty of Natural Sciences, University of Copenhagen (2006-2009);

International and National Leadership

• Presidency (Elect, Current, Past) of the International Biogeography Society (January 2014-2020);
• Daily leader and hosting the Danish Universities IPBES office in Denmark (2016-present);
• Vice-Chairman of WWF-Denmark, with Nils Smedegaard Andersen as Chairman (2018-onwards);
• Board member of WWF-Denmark, with Steen Riisgaard as Chairman (2010-2018);
• Head and member of dozens of departmental and faculty-level committees, working-groups, taskforces etc. (1995-present).

• Member of the board and Director of Admittance of the International Ph.D. School of Biodiversity Sciences in Denmark – across all Danish Universities (2002 2007);
• Co-organizing the World Wide Views Biodiversity Program involving thousands of citizens consultancy on five continent ;
• Board Member of the EURING, The European Union for Bird Ringing (2003-2005);       
• Board member of the Danish Ornithological Society, BirdLife Denmark (1995-1998).
• Head of the Danish Bird Ringing Centre (1995-2005);

Research leadership on major programs

• Director of DNRF Center for Macroecology, Evolution and Climate (2010-onwards);
• Member of the 6-person organizational committee of the b10k project aimed at sequence the genomes of all 10,000+ bird species of the world (with >200 scientists from institutions from >20 countries);
• Theme-leader on the global research infrastructure program ICARUS (with the European Space Agency) to follow movement of organism from the permanent space station;
• Co-PI and Theme-leader of the EU COST Action Program on Harmonizing Global Biodiversity Modelling, including appointed EU scientists from 14 countries;
• PI on University of Copenhagen Program of Excellence grant (“Stjerneprogram”) for Macroecology and Evolution (2008 –2013);
• PI of the FNU/SNF “Center for Macroecology” (2004 – 2010);
• Member of the European Science Foundation (ESF) Steering Committee for Optimality in Bird Migration;
• PI for US-NSF NCEAS ([US] National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis) workgroup program (comprising 22 scientists in 10 countries);
• PI for US-NSF NESCent ([US] National Evolutionary Synthesis Center) workgroup (15 scientists in 8 countries

Invited talks

Currently 10 per year with  > 100 in total including 50 plenary addresses at

conferences within the fields of biology, economy and science in general.

Review & Assessment

Review

• Reviewer for 70 international journals
• Reviewer for >15 foreign research councils and trust-foundations;

Assessment

• Chairing and/or member of evaluation committees in Denmark and abroad for: >30 PhD-thesis and doctoral thesis,
• >50 external reviews/assessment on academic positions,
• >20 tenure reviews and professor-evaluations
• A number of institutional and center evaluations.

Organizing of Conference and meetings

• >10 International conferences;
• >20 Conference symposium;
• >30 workshops.

Teaching/supervision

Development of courses and education programs

• Developed > 10 Bsc, Msc and Ph.D-courses
• Developed at the cross-institutional and interdisciplinary Msc in Climate change .
• Developed at the cross-institutional and interdisciplinary Msc in Nature Management.
• Developed the “Ecology & Evolution” (organismal biology) part of the Curriculum in Biology (2007-2009)
• Establish and co-directed the Danish Universities International School of Biodiversity Sciences (ISOBIS) (2001-2007).

Bsc, Msc and PhD: Course-teaching

• Taught and lectured at  > 35 courses (across five faculties)

Supervision

• > 20 Bsc thesis
• > 25 Msc thesis
• > 30 PhD thesis
• > 35 Postdocs, including 9 Marie Curie Fellows
• > 10 Assistant Professors

Scientific Consultancy work, and science policy  reports

International

• The Worldbank,
• United Nation,
• UN World Conservation Monitoring Center,
• UNEP - United Nations Environmental Programme,
•  IUCN - International Union for Conservation of Nature
• FAO - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
• WWF-US – World Wildlife Fund
• Conservation International
• BirdLife International.
• The Nature Conservancy

National

• Danish Economic Council
• Danish Board of Technology
• Danish Culture & Food Council
• Danish National Environmental Research
• Fehmarn Belt A/S
• DHI (and VKI)
• Cowi Consult
• Ornis Consult
• Danish Outdoor Council,
• Birdlife Denmark
• WWF-Denmark
• The Danish Society for Nature Conservation

Governmental Consultancy

• Danish Ministry of Environment and Food of Denmark
• Danish Ministry of Foreign Affairs
• Danish Ministry of Transport, Building and Housing
• Danish Ministry of Environment
• Danish Ministry of Environment and Energy
• Danish Ministry of food, agriculture and Fisheries

Science Advisory

• Scientific advisor to the Danish governmental delegation in establish the Intergovernmental Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) in 2012 and subsequent Danish advisor at IPBES COP meetings (2012-present).
• Member of the future policy of The European Research Council (ERC) on data sharing reporting to the ER Commission (2017)
• Cooperating with and the EU presidency on formulating EU-policy on Biodiversity (2012-2013);
• Senior scientific advisor to the Danish Technical Council helping the Danish Parliament’s Environment Committee in the formulation of a long-term strategy to fulfill the Danish obligation to the Biodiversity Convention and the EU-2010 aims (2007-2009)
• Member of the Nature and Agriculture Commission established by the Danish Government to suggest a plan for the future of Danish agriculture and biodiversity that is economic viable and environmental sustainable (2011-2013).

Public Dissemination

• Coverage in > 1000 Danish newspaper articles, including Seven front-page stories in Berlingske Tidende and Morgenavisen Jyllandsposten,
• Multiple reports and full length features in national radio and television news broadcasts.
• Regularly interview for National Radio and TV News , including expert in the studio.
• International media coverage is also extensive, including coverage in, among others, the Washington Post, New York Times, The Times, BBC, and the Discovery Channel.
• Research developments from the lab have repeatedly generated world-wide news coverage.
• Active on social media (Facebook and Twitter)
• >10 authored chronicles in largest Danish newspapers
• >100 popular articles
• >100 talks in the public
• Teaching material and teaching in primary and high School
• >10 citizen science program with > 100,000 Danes participating
• Several collaborative projects with the Danish National Radio, including a series for 2019 on Danish Nature  and cross-platform collaborative project on a citizen science project aimed at > 100,000 citizen.