Dr. Carlos Melian Fish Ecology and Evolution Eawag Seestrasse 79 6047 Kastanienbaum Switzerland

Phone +41 58 765 2208 Fax +41 58 765 2168 Office CA-B06 carlos.melian@eawag.ch

Carlos Melian

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Function

• Group leader theoretical ecosystem evolutionary ecology lab

Academic & research interests

We have these days unprecedented means of collecting data at several chemical, physical, biological levels and spatial scales.  We have relatively cheap and accessible computer power to store this data. Currently, general sense suggests, at least, two main consequences of this massive data accumulation:

(1) It triggers an immense number of new possibilities to understand biological system ranging from individual level processes to ecosystem dynamics, and
(2) It creates new challenges to link mechanistic theories with empirically grounded hypothesis across scientific disciplines.

Our group discuss and try to solve some of the several fascinating questions that arise from such a challenge. For example, which kind of modeling should we develop to link individual level processes with ecosystem dynamics? Which kind of mechanisms should we test with such an amount of data? Can individual and population level processes (i.e., starting from neutral mechanisms) predict the macroecological patterns of radiations, biodiversity and biological networks?

To address these and other questions we use, develop and test ecological and evolutionary models using fossil, historical and contemporary data.

Curriculum vitae

2010-present, Tenure-track position at the Center for Ecology, Evolution and Biogeochemistry, Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology, Switzerland.

2008-2010  Postdoctoral research fellow funded by Microsoft research Ltd. at the National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA.

2005-2008, Postdoctoral research fellow at the National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA.

2000-2005, PhD cum Laude from the University of Alcala, Madrid (Department of Ecology), and Spanish research council (Doñana Biological Station), Spain.

1994-1998, MSc degree in Environmental Sciences at the University of Alcala, Madrid, Spain.

Publications

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