Prof. Dr. Mathew A. Leibold

Profile

Academic positionFull Professor
Research fieldsEcology and Biodiversity of Animals and Ecosystems, Organismic Interactions,Evolution, Anthropology
Keywordsspecies interactions, plankton ecology, Metacommunities, evolutionary ecology, food webs

Current contact address

CountryUnited States of America
CityGainesville
InstitutionUniversity of Florida
InstituteDepartment of Biology

Host during sponsorship

Prof. Dr. Jonathan ChaseBiodiversitätssynthese, Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg, Leipzig
Start of initial sponsorship01/06/2017

Programme(s)

2017Humboldt Research Award Programme

Nominator's project description

Professor Leibold is an international authority in community ecology. He has published foundational studies from niche to ecosystem. But his influence goes much farther – he makes people around him better scientists. In Germany, he will finish his book on metacommunities and then he will push the frontier of the field incorporating modelling, large trait databases and co-occurrences.