At today's Annual General Meeting of the Estonian Academy of Sciences, Ülo Mander was elected Academy Member in the field of Global Change.
Ülo Mander, Professor of Physical Geography and Landscape Ecology and Head of Chair at the Institute of Ecology and Earth Sciences of the University of Tartu, is one of the most prominent developers of landscape ecology and environmental sciences in Estonia today. He has dedicated his entire research career to the study of landscape substance flow and landscape ecology in general, and to the development of appropriate eco-technological techniques for its improvement.
For the first time, the Academy was looking to expand not with a precisely defined representative of a scientific field, but for a mission-driven top scientist, whose work focuses on solving one of the great challenges facing both Estonia and humanity as a whole.
Global change affects everyone and spans across all disciplines of science. An adequate response to that change is part of the mission of the Academy, contributing to solving the issues of social and economic development in Estonian science and the country.
Eight excellent Estonian scientists were nominated for the position of Academy Member of Global Change.
Together with the academician elected today, there are a total of 76 members and 19 foreign members in the Estonian Academy of Sciences.