Rodolphe Schlaepfer

Examples of international experience:

• Research project in Indonesia (Impact of forest exploitation on the ecological quality of rivers)

• Research project in Columbia (Impacts of petroleum exploitation on rivers and landscapes)

• Teaching at the University of Antananarivo (Sustainable management of natiral resources)

• Other countries: Canada, Sweden, Burkina Faso, Ghana, Switzerland, France, UK

Scientific education:

• Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zürich (Forestry),

• University Laval Quebec (Forest inventory and Statistics),

• University of Edinburgh (Statistics, Biometry),

• Oregon State University (Landscape ecology, Forest ecology).

Professional career:

• Statstician at Ciba-Geigy Basel(1969-1975),

• Professor for Statistics and Physics at the Swiss Engineering School for Agriculture Zollikofen (1975-1982),

• Professor for Forest Management and Forest Biometry at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zürich (1982-1987),

• Director general of the Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research in Birmensorf and Professor for Forest Sciences at the Swiss Federal Institute for Technology in Zürich (1987-1996),

• Professor for Ecosystem Management at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technolgy Lausanne (1997-2005)

• From 2005: Honory Professsor at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne