Idrisi-L : ISO Spatial ecology modelling post-doctoral work place

[Alexandre Hirzel]

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By the middle of 2001 I shall have finished my PhD. I have the possibility to get funding for a post-doctoral research abroad and thus I am looking for a place to conduct my work. Besides improving my English, my objectives are to pursue on the gratifying ways of spatial ecology modelling and geographic information systems. I would thus be glad to join any active group involved in this kind of research.

My main scientific interest is computer modelling. During my PhD I developed three different computer programs: the first was a decision-support tool for the management of culling, involving a local age-structured population dynamics model. The second was a GIS-oriented statistical toolkit designed to assess habitat suitability and potential range for any species, on the basis of environmental variables and species occurrences. The third built a link between the two firsts: it modelled spatial population dynamics using a cellular automaton approach.

If you think our interests are converging, please feel free to contact me and tell me about your research projects. You will find more detailed information below. Please feel free to forward this message to any potentially interested person.

Thanks for your kind attention,

                             Alexandre Hirzel

Personal information
Names:  Alexandre H. HIRZEL
Date of birth:  25^th march 1970
Address:        Institute of Ecology
        Laboratory for Conservation Biology
        Biology building
        University of Lausanne
        CH-1050 LAUSANNE
        Switzerland
E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Phone:  +41 21 692 41 76
Fax:    +41 21 692 41 05
Home page:      http://www.unil.ch/izea/people/ahirzel.html

Short CV

1994:   Certificate of Botany

1995:   Certificate of Zoology and Animal Ecology

1995:   Licence ès Sciences

1996-1997:      Master of Biology (directed by Prof. R.Arditi, Lausanne & Paris): “Relation between biodiversity and ecosystems functioning: simulations of ecological communities assembly”

1997-2001:      PhD (directed by Prof. N.Perrin, Lausanne): “Spatial metapopulation dynamics of Ibex (Capra ibex) in Switzerland”

Computer programs

1997:   Rheagogator: Food webs assembly simulations (written in Fortran 90), personal use.

1998:   SIM-Ibex: Population dynamics and management decision-support tool (written in Delphi 4), distributed to Swiss fauna managers, freely downloadable at http://www.unil.ch/izea/softwares/simibex.html.

1999:   Biomapper: GIS-oriented statistical toolkit designed to assess habitat suitability and potential range for any species, on the basis of environmental variables and species occurrences (written in Delphi 4), freely downloadable at http://www.unil.ch/izea/softwares/biomapper.html.

2000:   HexaSpace: Spatially-explicit metapopulation dynamics model based on a cellular automaton approach (written in Delphi 4) Currently being developed.

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 Alexandre HIRZEL                                                  

 Labo. de Biologie de la Conservation

 Institut d'Ecologie                            Tel:(+4121) 692 41 76

 Faculté des Sciences, Bât. Biologie            Fax:(+4121) 692 41 05

 Université de Lausanne                                            

 CH-1015 LAUSANNE              mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

 SWITZERLAND               http://www.unil.ch/izea/people/ahirzel.html

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