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Department of Evolutionary Biology and Environmental Studies

Owen Petchey

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Research interests

Predictive ecology, population, community, and ecosystem ecology; effects of environmental change; modelling biological systems; statistical computing

CV

Education and professional positions

2017 - present Full Professor, Department of Evolutionary Biology and Environmental Studies, University of Zurich, Switzerland
2020 - present Vice Dean, Faculty of Science, University of Zurich, Switzerland
2017 - present Director of the Global Change and Biodiversity URPP
2014 - present Guest Researcher at EAWAG
2014 - 2020 Director of the Ecology PhD Programme and Life Science Zurich Graduate School
2016 Sabbatical visitor, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, USA
2011 - 2020 Director of the Biology Masters in Ecology
2011 - 2017 Associate Professor, Department of Evolutionary Biology and Environmental Studies, University of Zurich, Switzerland
Visiting Researcher, University of Sheffield, UK
2013 - 2016 Co-Director of the Global Change and Biodiversity URPP
2003 - 2011 Royal Society University Research Fellow, Department of Animal and Plant Sciences, University of Sheffield, UK
2000 - 2003 NERC Research Fellow, Department of Animal and Plant Sciences, University of Sheffield, UK
1997 - 2000 Postdoctoral researcher, Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Natural Resources, Rutgers University, NJ, USA
1994 - 1997 Ph.D., Imperial College, London, UK
1991 - 1994 B.A. (Hons) Natural Sciences, King’s College, University of Cambridge, UK
to 1991 General education at Sherard Primary School, Sarson High School, King Edward VII Upper School, Melton Mowbray, UK

Selected publications


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  • Gupta, A., Figueroa, H., O’Gorman, E., Jones, I., Woodward, G. & Petchey OL (2023) How many predator guts are required to predict trophic interactions? Food Webs, e00269. DOI: 10.1016/j.fooweb.2022.e00269
  • Barel, J., Petchey OL, Ghaffouli, A. & Jassey, VEJ (2023) Uncovering microbial food webs using machine learning. Soil Biology and Biochemistry, 186, 109174. DOI: 10.1016/j.soilbio.2023.109174
  • Le Moigne, A., Randegger, F., Gupta, A., Petchey OL & Pernthaler, J. (2023) Stochasticity causes high β-diversity and functional divergence of bacterial assemblages in closed systems. Ecology, 104, e4005. DOI: 10.1002/ecy.4005
  • Limberger, R., Daugaard, U., Gupta, A., Krug, R., Lemmen, K., Moorsel, S. van, Suleiman, M., Zuppinger-Dingley, D. & Petchey OL (2023) Functional diversity can facilitate the collapse of an undesirable ecosystem state. Ecology Letters, 26, 883-895. DOI: 10.1111/ele.14217
  • Ross, SR P-J, Petchey OL, Sasaki, T. & Armitage, D. W. (2023) How to measure response diversity. Methods in Ecology, 14, 1150-1167. DOI: 10.1111/2041-210X.14087
  • Gupta, A., Furrer, R., & Petchey OL (2022) Simultaneously estimating food web connectance and structure with uncertainty. Ecology and Evolution, 12, e8643. DOI: 10.1002/ece3.8643
  • Norberg, J., Blenckner, T., Cornell, S.E., Petchey OL, & Hillebrand, H. (2022) Failures to disagree are essential for environmental science to effectively influence policy development. Ecology Letters, ele.13984. DOI: 10.1111/ele.13984
  • Parreño, M. A., Petchey, S., Chapman, M., Altermatt, F., Backhaus, N., Deplazes-Zemp, A., Horgan, K., Niklaus, P. A., Mihaljević, M., Pennekamp, F., Santos, M. J., Schaepman, M., Schmid, B., Weber de Melo, V., Zuppinger-Dingley, D. & Petchey OL (2022) How puzzles are shaping our understanding of biodiversity: A call for more research into biodiversity representation in educational games. GAIA - Ecological Perspectives for Science and Society, 31, 139–145. DOI: 10.14512/gaia.31.3.3.
  • Suleiman, M., Pennekamp, F., Choffat, Y. & Petchey OL (2022) Contrasting resistance and resilience to light variation of the coupled oxic and anoxic components of an experimental microbial ecosystem. Ecology and Evolution, 12, e8793. DOI: 10.1002/ece3.8793.

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Owen Petchey

Owen Petchey

Full Professor

Department of Evolutionary Biology and Environmental Studies
University of Zurich
Winterthurerstrasse 190
8057 Zurich

Office: Y19-M-11
Phone: +41 44 635 4770