Christopher Martius

Christopher Martius serves as a Senior Fellow at the Center for Development Research (ZEF) Bonn, Germany. He holds a Ph.D. degree in biology from the University of Göttingen, Germany. He also serves as a Lecturer of agroecology at the University of Bonn. From 2009 to 2011, he worked as an Assistant Director for Science Programs at the Inter-American Institute for Global Change Research (IAI) in Brazil. From 2008 to 2009, he was the Head of the CGIAR/ICARDA Program for Central Asia and the Caucasus, Tashkent, Uzbekistan. The program won the CGIAR King Baudouin Award for Outstanding Partnership in 2008. He represented ICARDA in the Dryland Science for Development Consortium (DSD) which organized the UNCCD’s First Scientific Conference 2009 in Buenos Aires (drylandscience.org). From 1998 to 2007, Martius served as a Senior Scientist at ZEF Bonn. He supervised 30 Ph.D. students. He is an Advisory Board Member of DesertNet International. He has more than 12 years of work experience in tropical ecology (Brazilian Amazonia and African) and in drylands (he coordinated an international, interdisciplinary project on land and water resource management, Central Asia). He worked for many years on the role of soil organisms in conservation agriculture and the ecology of termites and their role in the formation of stable organic matter in tropical ecosystems. His research interests focus on global climate change, integrated concepts for improving sustainability of land use, and the management of biological soil resources. He has published about 100 articles on tropical ecology, nutrient cycling, soil ecology, and biodiversity in scientific journals.

Biography Updated on 19 November 2011

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