Jens-Christian Svenning

Jens-Christian Svenning is a Danish ecologist, biogeographer and academic. He is a Professor at the Department of Biology at Aarhus University, Denmark where he also serves as the Director of DNRF Center for Ecological Dynamics in a Novel Biosphere (ECONOVO), established in 2023.

Svenning is known for his research in macroecology, biogeography, biodiversity, the effects of climate change on biomes, rewilding, and human-environment interactions across historical and future contexts with a specific focus on concepts like disequilibrium dynamics and the impacts of top-down trophic processes. In 1995, he collected a specimen of a new species of pepper plant which was named after him as ''Piper svenningii''. He is the recipient of the 2011 Global Biodiversity Information Facility Ebbe Nielsen Prize, the EliteForsk Prize from the Danish Ministry of Higher Education and Science in 2014, the 2016 Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters' Queen Margrethe II's Science Award, Chinese Academy of Sciences' Distinguished Fellow Award in 2017, the 2021 Villum Kann Rasmussen Annual Award in Science and Technology of DKK 5 million, the European Ecological Federation Ernst Haeckel Prize in 2022, and the 2023 Carlsberg Foundation Research Prize.

Svenning was elected as Fellow of the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters in 2010 and the Danish Academy of Natural Sciences in 2011. Provided by Wikipedia