Curriculum Vitae
Prof Dr Marcel E. Visser (1960) graduated from Leiden University in 1987, and continued there as a PhD student in the Animal Ecology Group for four years, working on the life-history of insect parasitoids. After his PhD he obtained an EC Science Programme Fellowship to continue his parasitoids research at Imperial College (UK). In 1993 he shifted systems when he became a post-doc at the NIOO-KNAW, working on laying date in Great Tits. In 1996 he was appointed as a Senior Researcher and in 2002 as Head of Department. His main interests are the interaction between ultimate and proximate aspects of timing, particularly in the Oak - Winter Moth - Great Tit/Pied Flycatcher system. In January 2007 he obtained a personal VICI grant from NWO. He is currently subject editor for Global Change Biology.
In June 2005 he was appointed as Professor on Seasonal Timing of Behaviour at Groningen University and in April 2012 Professor on Ecological genetics at Wageningen University but he remains based at the NIOO-KNAW.
Projects
Timing of growth and reproduction: ultimate functions and proximate mechanisms
An important part of this research is funded by a NWO-VICI grant.
Co-Operation
Songbird Genomics: High throughput genetics and QTL mapping in wild passerines
This project is carried out in cooperation with Prof. Dr. Martien A.M. Groenen from the Animal Breeding and Genetics department of the WUR and Dr. Kees van Oers of the NIOO and is funded by the Horizon program.
Impact of artificial light on flora and fauna in The Netherlands
This project is carried out in cooperation with Prof. Dr. Frank Berendse and Dr. Elmar M. Veenendaal from the Nature Conservation and Plant Ecology department of the WUR and Dr. Theo Verstrael of the VOFF and is funded by STW.
Selected Publications
See PDF for a complete literature list (updated at 6 May 2012)
Links
I am professor at the department Chronobiology of the Groningen University: http://www.rug.nl/biologie/onderzoek/onderzoekGroepen/chronobiologie/index
I am professor at the department Animal Breeding and Genetics of the Wageningen University: http://www.abg.wur.nl/UK/
I am subject editor of Global Change Biology (IF 6.1): http://www.blackwellpublishing.com/journals/GCB/
I am a member of the Executive Committee of the International Ornithological Union (IOU) - with the International Ornithological Congress (IOC) as its four yearly meeting: http://int-ornith-union.org
Teaching:
Master Class A master course "Ecology of animal life histories: the interactions between ecology and life history from an evolutionary perspective" at the Wageningen University - February-March 2013
Public outreach:
TV interview at the Copenhagen UNFCCC climate meeting 2009: http://www.climate-change.tv/component/content/article/47-inside-climate-change-solutions-interviews/291-marcel-visser-december-2009
Klokhuis TV-program (31 March 2009 Klokhuis, a Dutch TV program, featured our climate change research on the great tit.): http://player.omroep.nl/?aflID=9213208
Opening Darwin year 2009: www.youtube.com/watch?v=_dFXLhE6NWQ&feature=youtube_gdata_player
Opgewarmd Nederland (Book (2004) on climate change in the Netherlands, with a chapter by M.E. Visser & F. Rienks on Ecologische relaties lopen stuk op warmere lentes): http://www.opgewarmdnederland.nl/
De nieuwe mees, aflevering van het TV programma Jota: http://www.wetenschap24.nl/video/bekijk/de-nieuwe-mees.htm
Ecologische relatieproblemen, interview voor HoeZo Radio (video opnamen van het ronde tafel gesprek over de ecologische gevolgen van klimaatverandering, in de tweede helft van de uitzending): http://www.wetenschap24.nl/video/bekijk/ecologische-relatieproblemen.htm
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