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Dagmar Schröter is an expert on global change and ecosystem services in the Department of Environmental Impact Assessment and Climate Change of the Federal Environment Agency in Vienna, Austria. Since June 2009 she is also Guest Research Scholar in the Risk & Vulnerability Group at the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA). In Oct 2008, she rejected the chair of “Ecological Services” (full professorship), in the Elite Study Program of Global Change Ecology, Bayreuth University, Bayreuth, Germany, for personal reasons.  From 2005-2008 she was a research fellow at Clark University’s George Perkins Marsh Institute (Worcester, USA), which is dedicated to research on the fundamental question: what is and ought to be our relationship with nature? Prior to this she was visiting research fellow at Harvard University in the Science, Environment and Development Group at the Center for International Development (CID, Cambridge, USA). From 2001 - 2004, Dagmar was affiliated with the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK), Department of Global Change & Natural Systems (Potsdam, Germany). She directed the European Vulnerability Assessment Project ATEAM, a European Union funded large-scale research initiative led by PIK that was completed in 2005. Dagmar obtained her PhD in ecosystems' research in 2001 at Gießen University, Department of Animal Ecology, Germany, combining field research and numerical modelling. Prior to this she studied biology at the Technical University, Aachen, Germany. Her research interests are human-environment interactions, global change vulnerability assessment, ecological food web modelling and the carbon and nitrogen cycle. Her ultimate research goal is to make environmental sciences useful in interdisciplinary dialogues on sustainable management of the human-environment system.

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