Dr. phil. II Felix Liechti
Swiss Ornithological Institute
Seerose 1
6204 Sempach
Switzerland
++41 41 462 97 82 (Phone)
++41 41 462 97 10 (Fax)
felix.liechti@vogelwarte.ch
© Marcel Burkhardt
Dr. phil. II Felix Liechti
Swiss Ornithological Institute
Seerose 1
6204 Sempach
Switzerland
++41 41 462 97 82 (Phone)
++41 41 462 97 10 (Fax)
felix.liechti@vogelwarte.ch
Willem Bouten, Research Group of Computational Geo- Ecology (CGE), IBED, Amsterdam University, The Netherlands.
Susanne Akesson, Centre for Animal Movement Research, Lund University, Sweden.
Marcel Klaassen, Centre for Integrative Ecolog. Deakin University, Australia.
Pavel Zehtindijev, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia, Bulgaria.
Roger Weber, Engineering and Information Technology, Berne University of Applied Science, Switzerland.
Federal Office of Civil Aviation, Berne, Switzerland.
Education | |
1985 – 1991 | Doctoral thesis at the university of Basel supervised by Prof. Dr. B. Bruderer (Swiss Ornithological Institute) on the influence of environmental factors on bird migration. |
1979 – 1985 | Study of biology at the university of Zurich, main degree Zoology, secondary botany. |
Working life | |
2008 - | Lecturer at the University of Basel. |
2008 - | Official delegate for the swiss federal office of civil aviation in the international birdstrike committee. |
2007 – 2008 | Project management "Weather radars, validations and adaptations" within the ESA (European Space Agency) FlySafe-Initiative. |
2007 | Symposium organised on "Radar ornithology - past experiences and future challenges" at the EOU-conference (Vienna). |
since 2007 | Head of the bird migration research department at the Swiss ornithological institute |
2002 | Participation on ESF-Symposium held at Lund (Sweden) on "Ecology of long-distance movements". |
2000-2004 | Co-applicant and coordination of the project "Bird migration across the Sahara", supported by the SNSF. Prospection, pilot project, field work with a mobile radar in the Sahara desert, Mauritania. |
1998 - 2006 | Co-ordinator in the department of bird migration at the Swiss Ornithological Institute (Stv. Programmleiter). Co-supervision of several diploma works and doctoral theses in co-operation with the University of Basel and Zurich. |
1996 / 1997 | Co-applicant of the SNSF-project (Swiss National Science Foundation) on "Bird migration in the Western Mediterranean". Management and directing work of the radar field station in southern Spain. |
1993 – 1998 | Scientific assistant and deputy in the Swiss Bird Radar research team (Swiss Ornithological Institute). |
1993 | Stay at University of Lund (S) collaborating with Bird migration research group of Prof. T. Alerstam. |
1991 / 1992 | Field work in Israel: Leading a radar stations. |
1991 - 1993 | Scientific assistant at the Swiss Ornithological Institute. |
1989 – 1991 | Part time job as an IT-instructor. |
1984 – 1989 | Part time job at an engineering office, pollution control. |
List of publications (last 5 years, peer reviewed journals only)