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Dr. Claus Rueffler - Curriculum vitae

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Education

2006 PhD, Theoretical Evolutionary Biology, Leiden University, Netherlands, Title: "Traits traded off"
2000 Staatsexamen, (roughly equivalent to master's), Biology and Mathematics, University of Kiel, Germany
1999 Master's thesis, at the Geobotanical Institute of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (ETH Zurich); Advisors: Prof. Alex Widmer, Prof. Jacqui Shykoff; Title: "Reproduction and Population Biology of the Rock-Pink Dianthus sylvestris"
1991 - 1999     Studies in Biology, Mathematics and Soil Science, University of Kiel, Germany

Professional Appointments

May-August 2009 Research Affiliate, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Yale University (Wagner lab)
2008 - present Junior Group Leader funded by the WWTF, Department of Mathematics, University of Vienna
2005 - 2007 Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Toronto (PI: P.A. Abrams)
2000 - 2005     PhD Student, Department of Biology, Leiden University, The Netherlands (Advisor: J.A.J. Metz, Co-advisor: T.J.M. Van Dooren)

Grants

2007         WWTF grant for junior research group

Teaching Experience

2009/10 Mathematical Ecology for master students biomathematics, University of Vienna
2007 Theoretical Ecology and Evolution for 3rd year biology students, University of Toronto (together with P.A. Abrams)
2004 Zoological field trip for 3rd year students (4 days), University of Kiel
2000 - 2003 Tutorials in mathematics and statistics for 1st and 2nd year biology students, Leiden University
1994 - 1999     Student assistant in various field courses, e.g. "Botanical Field Trips for Beginners, "Vegetation History of Northern Germany", "Ecology of Rocky Shores", University of Kiel

Other Experience

June 2003     Co-organizer of the conference on Sex, Sexual Selection and Speciation, Leiden University
Referee for: Hungarian Scientific Research Fund (OTKA), American Naturalist, BioSystems, Bulletin of Mathematical Biology, Evolution, Evolutionary Ecology, Journal of Biological Dynamics, Journal of Evolutionary Biology, Journal of Theoretical Biology, Mathematical Biosciences, Molecular Ecology, Oikos, Proceedings of the Royal Society B and Theoretical Population Biology