School of Geography and the Environment appoints a new Associate Professor in Physical Geography
Oxford's School of Geography and the Environment has appointed Dr David Moreno-Mateos as Associate Professor in Physical Geography who will take up post on 1st September 2023.
Dr Moreno-Mateos will replace Rob Whittaker (Professor of Biogeography), who retires from the School later this year. The new appointment is in association with Oxford's St Edmund Hall where Dr Moreno-Mateos will hold the position of Tutorial Fellow in Physical Geography.
Dr David Moreno-Mateos is currently an Assistant Professor of Landscape Architecture at the Harvard Graduate School of Design and an affiliate of the Department of Organismal and Evolutionary Biology at the Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences. He is also a Research Professor at the Basque Center for Climate Change - BC3 in Spain. As a restoration ecologist, Dr Moreno-Mateos is interested in understanding the long-term recovery of ecosystems degraded by human development and has authored more than 50 papers in scientific journals and books, including papers in Nature Communications, Nature, PLOS Biology, and Naturein Ecology and Evolution. He is Associate Editor at the Journal of Applied Ecology (British Ecological Society) and Ecological Restoration (Society for Ecological Restoration).
At the School of Geography and the Environment he will contribute expert research, teaching and supervision in the fields of biogeography, macroecology and terrestrial ecological sciences, contributing to the School's BA in Geography and MSc in Biodiversity, Conservation and Management in particular.
Dr Moreno-Mateos said: "This is an incredible opportunity to join an outstanding multidisciplinary school. I feel that at SoGE my research, which builds on scientific fields that range from ecology to archeology or biogeochemistry, would quickly grow and strengthen the unique potential of the School to tackle the most concerning global challenges that the planet is facing."
Head of School, Professor Giles Wiggs said: "I am thrilled to welcome David to the School. He will join a dynamic and successful academic community and enhance our world-class teaching and research in ecology and biogeography. His innovative work on ecosystem recovery integrates with a host of research currently being carried out across the breadth of the School and University and I am very excited to see the results of these collaborations in the years to come."
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School of Geography and the Environment appoints a new Associate Professor in Physical Geography
Oxford's School of Geography and the Environment has appointed Dr David Moreno-Mateos as Associate Professor in Physical Geography who will take up post on 1st September 2023. Dr Moreno-Mateos will replace Rob Whittaker (Professor of Biogeography), who retires from the School later this year. The new appointment is in association with Oxford's St Edmund Hall where Dr Moreno-Mateos will hold the position of Tutorial Fellow in Physical Geography.
