Josef Settele
Josef Settele
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Prof. Dr. Josef Settele (Sepp) works at the UFZ – Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research in Halle, Germany, where he heads the group on “animal ecology and social-ecological systems”.
Before being co-chair of the Global Assessment of IPBES, he acted as lead author in the Asia-Pacific Assessment and as coordinating lead author of the Pollination Assessment. He was also CLA of the 5th Assessment Report of IPCC. His research focuses on the interface of land use, climate, and biological diversity.
He holds a PhD in Agriculture and is a professor of Ecology at the Martin-Luther-University of Halle-Wittenberg.