Curriculum vitae
Curriculum vitae of Prof. Dr. Jorge A. Encarnação
| Jorge A. Encarnação (born 22.07.1974) studied biology with special emphasis on animal ecology at the Justus-Liebig-University of Giessen (JLU) and finished his degree with a diploma thesis about the ecology of male Daubenton’s bats in 2001. Subsequently, he was appointed as Research Associate at the Department of Animal Ecology (JLU) and the Institute of Biology at the University of Hildesheim. During this time he gathered research experience abroad through cooperation projects e.g. with the Fraunhofer Institute for Computer Graphics in Darmstadt and the private Institute of Animal Ecology and Nature Education in Laubach. In 2005, he completed his PhD with a thesis on the Phenology and life-history strategy of bats. Since November 2009, the Mammalian Ecology Group will be conducted by him at the Justus-Liebig-University of Giessen. His research interests are in the areas of nutrition ecology of small insectivorous mammals and bats, reproductive biology of central European Myotis species, comparative metabolic physiology of shrews, bats, and dormouse, and the species diversity and habitat use of forest-dwelling small mammals. |  |
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Nov 2009 – Oct 2012 |
Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen Reappointment as Assistant Professor, Mammalian Ecology Giessen, Germany |
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Jan 2006 – Jan 2007 |
Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel Certified Expert, Geo-information systems and communication technology Kiel, Germany |
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Oct 2001 – May 2005 |
Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen PhD (Dr. rer. nat.), Bat Ecology, Behaviour and Physiology Giessen, Germany |
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Oct 1994 – Sep 2001 |
Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen Diploma, Biology Giessen, Germany |
Research Experience
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Nov 2009 – present |
Assistant Professor for Mammalian Ecology JLU Gießen, Department of Animal Ecology and Systematics Giessen, Germany |
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Sep 2007 – Oct 2009 |
Research Associate for Wildlife Ecology Universität Hildesheim, Institute of Biology and Chemistry Hildesheim, Germany |
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Jan 2006 – Oct 2009 |
Research Associate for Animal Ecology and Environmental Planning Institute of Animal Ecology and Nature Education Laubach, Germany |
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Jan 2002 – Dec 2005 |
Research Associate for Bat Ecology and Landscape Planning JLU Gießen, Department of Animal Ecology and Systematics Giessen, Germany |
Awards & Grants
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Jun 2011 |
Grant: DFG - German Research Foundation |
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Jan 2010 |
JLU-Grant for the promotion of young scientists |
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May 2006 |
Best Dissertation award of the Science Department at JLU |
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Jun 2002 |
Grant: Hessische Stiftung Naturschutz |
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Jan 2002 |
Grant: GIStec GmbH |
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Dec 2001 |
Scholarship: Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung |
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Sep 2000 |
Best Presentation award of the German Society for Mammalian Biology |
[if gte mso 9]>Memberships & Activities
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Scientific Memberships |
German Zoological Society e.V. |
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Journal Referee |
Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, PLoS ONE, Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, Mammal Review, Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, Journal of Mammalogy, Annales Zoologici Fennici, Mammalian Biology, European Journal of Wildlife Research, Canadian Journal of Zoology, Acta Chiropterologica, Folia Zoologica, BioScience, American Journal of Life Sciences, Natur und Landschaft |
Recent Publication Highlights
Jorge A. Encarnação, Sibylle Herzog, Markus Eickmann, Nina I. Becker, Nicole Hermes, Christiane Herden: Landscape features and reservoir occurence affecting the risk for equine infection with Borna disease virus. Journal of wildlife diseases 10/2013; 49(4):860–868.
Nina I Becker, Marco Tschapka, Elisabeth K V Kalko, Jorge A Encarnação: Balancing the Energy Budget in Free-Ranging Male Myotis daubentonii Bats. Physiological and Biochemical Zoology 04/2013; 86(3):361-9.
Anna Roswag, Nina I. Becker, Jorge A. Encarnação: Inter- and intraspecific comparisons of retention time in insectivorous bat species (Vespertilionidae). Journal of Zoology 12/2012; 288:85-92.
Sara Strobel, Anna Roswag, Nina I Becker, Tina E Trenczek, Jorge A Encarnação: Insectivorous bats digest chitin in the stomach using acidic Mammalian chitinase. PLoS ONE 09/2013; 8(9):e72770.
Matthias S. Otto, Nina I. Becker, Jorge A. Encarnação: Cool gleaners: Thermoregulation in sympatric bat species. Mammalian Biology 03/2013; 78(3):212-215.
Dennis Baulechner, Nina I. Becker, Jorge A. Encarnação: Host specificity in spinturnicid mites: do parasites share a long evolutionary history with their host?. Journal of Zoological Systematics and Evolutionary Research 07/2013; 51(3):203-212.
Manon Bourg, Sibylle Herzog, Jorge A Encarnação, Daniel Nobach, Hildburg Lange-Herbst, Markus Eickmann, Christiane Herden: Bicolored White-toothed Shrews as Reservoir for Borna Disease Virus, Bavaria, Germany. Emerging Infectious Diseases 12/2013; 19(12):2064-6.
Juliane Schatz, Anne Balkema-Buschmann, Peter Busse, Dietrich Dolch, Jorge A. Encarnação, Melina Fischer, Bernd Hoffmann, Linda Kwasnitschka, Thomas Mettenleiter, Ralf-Udo Mühle, Thomas Müller, Bernd Ohlendorf, Gabriel Pelz, Jana Teubner, Conrad Freuling: Twenty years of active bat rabies surveillance in Germany: a detailed analysis and future perspectives. Epidemiology and Infection 08/2013.
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