Prof. Dr. Peter Cornelis Ruiter

Profile

Academic positionFull Professor
Research fieldsBioinformatics and Theoretical Biology,Ecology and Biodiversity of Animals and Ecosystems, Organismic Interactions
KeywordsFood Webs, Soil Ecology, Modeling, Environment, Sustainability

Current contact address

CountryNetherlands
CityWageningen
InstitutionWageningen University
InstituteBiometris

Host during sponsorship

Prof. Dr. Ursula GaedkeArbeitsgruppe Vegetationsökologie und Naturschutz, Universität Potsdam, Potsdam
Start of initial sponsorship01/08/2014

Programme(s)

2013Humboldt Research Award Programme

Nominator's project description

Prof. Dr. Peter de Ruiter from Wageningen University, NL, is a very well recognized scientist in theoretical ecology, especially food web ecology. Together with his team he explicitly links mathematical models with observations on the structure and compositions of real food webs which opens new ways to approach the 'stability' of food webs. His work resulted e.g. in 5 publications in Science and 3 in Nature. During his stay at Potsdam University, he will compare soil and plankton food webs.