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Profile
| Academic position | Full Professor |
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| Research fields | Ecology and Biodiversity of Plants and Ecosystems,Geomorphology |
| Keywords | wetland ecology, blue carbon, climate change, coastal ecosystems, ecosystem services |
| Honours and awards | 2021: Alexander Von Humboldt Research Award 2020: Gold Medal of the Australian Institute for Nuclear Science and Engineering 2019: Eureka Prize for Environmental Research 2014: Fulbright Professional Award in Climate Change and Clean Energy 2011: Fellow Award of the Society of Wetland Scientists |
Current contact address
| Country | Australia |
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| City | Sydney |
| Institution | Macquarie University |
| Institute | Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences |
Host during sponsorship
| Prof. Dr. Kai Jensen | Institut für Angewandte Molekulare Pflanzenbiologie II, Universität Hamburg, Hamburg |
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| Start of initial sponsorship | 01/10/2022 |
Programme(s)
| 2021 | Humboldt Research Award Programme |
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Nominator's project description
| Professor Saintilan is an international authority in the field of coastal ecosystems and their response to changing climatic conditions. His expertise spans from geomorphology and landscape development to plant ecology and biogeochemistry. He identified new approaches to wetland management, drawing attention to the benefits of carbon sequestration (“blue carbon”) in coastal wetlands. In Germany, he will work on the role of abiotic and biotic drivers of the carbon cycle in coastal ecosystems, using salt marshes of the Baltic and the North Sea coast as model systems. |