Oliver Balmer

Activity areas

• Functional biodiversity
  
• Conservation in agriculture

Training / professional career

• since 2007: Project leader, Research Institute of Organic Agriculture
  
• 2006-2008: Postdoc, Institute of Zoology, University of Basel and Swiss Tropical Institute
  
• 2001-2006: Ph.D. in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Yale University, USA
  
• 2002: Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Panama. Project on coral bleaching
  
• 2000-2001: High school teacher
  
• 1999-2000: Hintermann & Weber, Reinach (ecological consultancy)
  
• 1999: UPCAM (NGO for development assistance). Sustainable rain forest use, community forestry and FSC forest certification in Cameroon
  
• 1996 & 1998: Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research (WSL), section Biodiversity
  
• 1993-1998: M.Sc. in Organismic Biology, University of Basel, Switzerland
  
• 1991-1993: B.Sc. in Environmental Natural Sciences, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) Zurich