Anders P. Tøttrup

Anders P. Tøttrup

Vicemuseumchef, Lektor - forfremmelsesprogrammet

Education

2009              PhD in Migration Ecology, Department of Biology,University of Copenhagen, Denmark

2004              MSc in Population Ecology, Natural History Museum of Denmark, University of Copenhagen 

Positions held

2015-present        Director of Education, Natural History Museum of Denmark, University of Copenhagen

2012-present        Associate Professor, Natural History Museum of Denmark, University of Copenhagen

2009-2012           Post doc, Center for Macroecology, Evolution and Climate, University of Copenhagen.

2005-2008           PhD student, Department of Biology, University of Copenhagen, Denmark.

Academic experience

  • 49 peer-reviewed scientific papers, H-index: 21, 1350 citations in Web of Science.

  • Regular symposium convener, e.g.:  European Ornithologists’ Conference, 2015 and International Ornithological Conference, Tokyo, 2014

  • Reviewer for top journals:           

General Biology (e.g. Proc Roy Soc B, Biology Letters), Ecology (e.g. Journal of Animal Ecology, Ecography), Ornithology (e.g. Journal of Avian Biology, IBIS)

  • Main author on 4 Environmental Impact Assessment reports

  • 5 scientific reports since 2005

  • >60 popular articles and book reviews within Ornithology and Conservation since 2005

Teaching

Higher Education Teaching and Teaching Practice Programme for assistant professors. “Adjunktpædagogikum”. Workload: 250 hours.

Certified to teach English-medium courses by KU Centre for Internationalisation and parallel language use with the result of “4” (on a 1-5 scale where 5 is best)

Planning, giving lectures and exercises, as well as student assessment and course evaluation on:Danish Fauna – vertebrates (BSc) and Ornithology (MSc)

Lecturing: Nature Management (MSc), Conservation Biology (BSc/MSc), Ornithology (MSc)

Supervision

Annually         4 MSc students and 3 BSc students

2007-2015      11 MSc project and 21 BSc projects

                       

Organisational and field work experience

  • Extensive training in bird identification, bird surveys, ringing, conventional radio-tracking as well as handling and capturing birds.
  • Organised and preformed field work in Tanzania, Ghana, Niger, Greenland, USA, Israel, Sweden, Finland and Denmark.
  • Editor of popular scientific journal: Fugle i felten published by BirdLife Denmark with focus on Field Ornithology (2003-2005).
  • Executive board member of BirdLife Denmark (since 2007-2011)
  • Chairman of the scientific committee of BirdLife Denmark (2012-present) member since 2008.

Grants

Research grants:          Carlsberg 1-year Individual post doc (2011), Villum Fonden 2-year individual post doc (2012)

Project grants:                    

  • Golden Eagle Project (Aage V. Jensen Foundation, 2015, 132000€)
  • Citizen Science Project with Danish Nature Protection Society (Aage V. Jensen Foundation,  2013, 1,900,000 €)
  • Citizen Science Project with WWF (Aage V. Jensen Foundation, 2013, 890,000 €)

Travel grants:              NSF USA (2010, 840 USD); Migration Interest Group Research Applied Toward Education (2008, 1000 €); Dansk Naturhistorisk Forening (2004, 660 €)

Fieldwork grants:        KIIIP Greenland Homerule Fund (2006, 4600 €), Bodil Pedersen Fund (2006, 1300 €), Torben & Alice Frimodt Fund (2006, 1300 €), Julie von Müllens Fund/The Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters, (2006, 3300 €), Japetus Steenstrups Fund (2006, 400 €), Oticon Fund (2006, 1600 €), Aalborg Zoo’s Greenlandic Grant (2005, 1300 €)

Uddannelse

ph.d.

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