Boris Rewald

Career

• 2020 Speciality Chief Editor - Frontiers in Plant Science, Functional Plant Ecology (https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/plant-science/sections/functional-plant-ecology)
• 2018 - 2022 Deputy, Institute of Forest Ecology, BOKU
• 2017 Professor (Associate) at the Institute of Forest Ecology, Department of Forest and Soil Sciences, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna, Austria
• 2016 - 2017 Professor (Assistant) at the Institute of Forest Ecology, Department of Forest and Soil Sciences, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna, Austria
• 2015 - 2017 Privatdozent at the Institute of Forest Ecology, Department of Forest and Soil Sciences, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna, Austria.
• 2014 State doctorate (Habilitation) in the field "Ecophysiology of plants", University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna
• 2012 - 2016 Postdoctoral Research Associate & Senior Lecturer at the Institute of Forest Ecology, Department of Forest and Soil Sciences, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna, Austria.
• 2009 - 2011 Postdoctoral fellow at the French Associates Institute for Agriculture and Biotechnology of Drylands, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Sede Boqer Campus, Israel.
• 2008 - 2009 SSA Dryland Research-Fellow at the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Sede Boqer Campus, Israel AND PostDoc at the Albrecht-von-Haller Institute of Plant Sciences, Georg-August University Göttingen, Germany.
• 2008 PhD graduation (Dr. rer.nat.), Faculty for Biology, University Göttingen, Germany.
• 2006 - 2006 SSA Dryland Research-Fellow at the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Sede Boqer Campus, Israel.
• 2004 - 2008 PhD study at the Department of Plant Ecology and Ecosystem Research, Albrecht-von-Haller Institute of Plant Sciences, Georg-August University Göttingen, Germany. Thesis title: Impact of climate change-induced drought on tree root hydraulic properties and competition belowground.
• 2000 - 2003 Study for Diploma in Biology (Botany, Genetics, Nature Conservation), University Göttingen, Germany.
• 1998 - 2000 Prediploma Biology, University of Kassel, Germany.

Awards

• Year: 2022 Awards: Förderungspreis der Stiftung "120 Jahre Universität für Bodenkultur", Österreich
• Year: 2019 Awards: Auszeichnung für die hervorragende Betreuung von "Talente Praktika für Schülerinnen und Schüler 2018", Bundesministerium für Verkehr, Innovation und Technologie, Österreich
• Year: 2016 Awards: Förderungspreis der Stiftung "120 Jahre Universität für Bodenkultur", Österreich
• Year: 2009 Awards: Postdoktorats Stipendium (2 Jahre), Blaustein Center for Scientific Cooperation (BCSC), Israel
• Year: 2004 Awards: Doktorats Stipendium (3 Jahre), Stiftung der deutschen Wirtschaft (sdw), Deutschland
• Year: 1999 Awards: BundesUmweltWettbewerb 1998/1999, Deutschland. 3. Preis zusammen mit G.F. Bertram