Welcome, Mathieu Lévesque
We welcome Mathieu Lévesque as a new Oberassistant in the Forest Ecology Group! Mathieu studied Forest Sciences at University Laval (Canada) and Tropical Forestry and Management at TU Dresden (Germany), and Agroforestry at Bangor University (UK).
His MSc thesis entitled “Recovery and dynamics of a subtropical dry forest 10 years after human disturbances in Jamaica”. Subsequently, he moved to the Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research WSL and ETH Zurich where he completed his PhD under the supervision of Harald Bugmann, Andreas Rigling, and Peter Brang in 2013. At WSL, he studied the drought response of native and non-native conifers along an ecological gradient in Central Europe with dendrochronological analyses. He spent two and half years in the USA at Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University (New York) as a postdoctoral researcher where he studied the growth and physiological response of the eastern US broadleaf forest to global change. In the Forest Ecology Group, he will be working on forest management and silvicultural research projects while lecturing some courses in the curriculum Forest and Landscape Management.