Marcela Suarez-Rubio

Career

• 2017 Senior Scientist, Institute of Zoology, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences Vienna
• 2016 Habilitation (Venia docendi) in Landscape Ecology, Privatdozent, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences Vienna
• 2012 - 2016 University Assistant, Institute of Zoology, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences Vienna
• 2011 PhD in Ecology, University of Maryland, USA
• 2010 Lecturer, Johns Hopkins University, USA
• 2005 - 2007 Curriculum Development Coordinator, Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute, USA
• 2005 MSc in Biology, University of Puerto Rico, Puerto Rico
• 2005 - 2007 Principal Instructor, Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute, USA
• 2000 BSc in Biology, Universidad del Valle, Colombia

Awards

• Year: 2022 Awards: ERASMUS+ Teaching Mobility, Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia, Lima, Peru
• Year: 2022 Awards: National Parks Austria Research Award to the Master Thesis of Lena Schneider and Georg Gruber (Supervisors: Marcela Suarez-Rubio and Markus Milchram)
• Year: 2019 Awards: Top Downloaded Paper 2018-2019 in Ecology and Evolution: Suarez-Rubio et al. 2018 (https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ece3.3897)
• Year: 2018 Awards: ERASMUS+ Teaching Mobility, Universidad de Extremadura, Spain
• Year: 2017 Awards: ERASMUS+ Teaching Mobility, Universidad de Extremadura, Spain
• Year: 2016 Awards: BOKU Teaching Award 2016 - 2. Place
• Year: 2016 Awards: ERASMUS+ Teaching Mobility, University of Mandalay, Myanmar
• Year: 2015 Awards: First prize for oral presentation for Kathrine Schack Madsen: "Influence of landscape parameters on reproductive success of great tits (Parus major) along an urban gradient." ELLS Conference, Prague
• Year: 2011 Awards: Jacob K. Goldhaber Travel Award
• Year: 2011 Awards: Who’s who in America for Professional Achievements
• Year: 2011 Awards: NASA-MSU Professional Enhancement Award
• Year: 2010 Awards: Appalachian Laboratory, University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science Travel Award
• Year: 2010 Awards: USDA-NIFA Professional Enhancement Award
• Year: 2008 Awards: American Ornithologists' Union Student Travel Award
• Year: 2008 Awards: Appalachian Laboratory, University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science Travel Award
• Year: 2008 Awards: Golden Key International Honour Society Member
• Year: 2006 Awards: Dr. José Ramón Ortiz Award (Fundación Ríos Pasarell)
• Year: 2005 Awards: Auburn University Center for Forest Sustainability Travel Fellowship
• Year: 2005 Awards: Fellowship for Dissertations, thesis and equivalent projects. Dean’s Office of Graduate and Research Studies, University of Puerto Rico
• Year: 2004 Awards: Smithsonian Latino Initiatives Pool Fellowship