Experts at the Conference: Christian Körner

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Christian Körner is professor of Botany at the University of Basilea, in Switzerland. He studied at the University of Innsbruck, in Austria, and he si an expert of alpine plants. From 1977 he has taken part at lots of projects in several countries, as Austria, Sweden, Argentina, Venezuela and Australia.
 

Institute of Botany
University of Basel
Schönbeinstrasse 6
4056 Basel (Switzerland)

                  
Education
1968-1973: M.Sc. (Biol.Diploma) University of Innsbruck, Austria (masters project: development and test of a new electronic diffusion porometer).
1973-1977: Ph.D. University of Innsbruck with W. Larcher as part of IBP (Theses: water relations of alpine plants).
                 

Professional experience
1977-1980: coworker of Austrian MAB alpine program and cooperative field work with the Acad. Sci of Georgia, Tbilisi, in the central Caucasus (together with A. Cernusca).
1980-1981: Postdoctoral fellow, Research School of Biological Sciences, Australian National University (RSBS-ANU) Canberra, with field work on stomatal diffusion, leaf morphology and plant nutrition in the Australian Snowy Mts, New Zealand and New Guinea.
1982-1989: Senior lecturer University of Innsbruck (1982 Habilitation for Botany).
1982-1988: Various research projects on alpine and forest ecology in Austria, Sweden, Argentina, Venezuela and USA.
1986-1989: Major Austrian research grant to study CO2 and temperature responses of photosynthesis in alpine plants in situ.
1989: 6-month research leave, RSBS-ANU, Canberra (stable carbon isotopes).
since 1989: Professor of Botany, University of Basel
1994-1999: Cooperative project with the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute in Panama
1999: Start of Swiss canopy crane project.
                  
Membership
Academia Europaea (London)
Austrian Academy of Sciences (Vienna)
CASS (SANW) - Beirat
Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher Leopoldina
GMBA (Diversitas) - Chairman
National Academy of India - Foreign Fellow
Oecologia - Editor in Chief