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Dr. Isabel Calabuig, Curriculum vitae as per November 2016:
Born 1970 in Denmark, Danish citizen, married, no children. Entomologist with PhD in biodiversity of insects in semi-natural habitats of agricultural landscapes. 8 years experience in teaching biology and population ecology. 17 years experience as node manager of DanBIF. 5 years as work package coordinator in EC-projects ENBI (European Network for Biodiversity Information) and EDIT (The European Distributed Institute of Taxonomy).

Academic degrees and professional experience
2001- Node manager, DanBIF, Danish Participant Node of GBIF, Natural History Museum of Denmark, University of Copenhagen.

2006-2007 June 1 2006 through August 31 2007 on leave from DanBIF to act as Work Package coordinator (WP2) in EDIT - The European Distributed Institute of Taxonomy, c/o Zoological Museum, University of Copenhagen ?

2003-2005 In parallel to DanBIF work, managing Work Package 13 of the EC thematic network ENBI - European Network for Biodiversity Information.

2001 Co-editor on the successful Danish bid to host the secretariat of the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF, www.gbif.org and www.gbif.net) at the Zoological Museum, University of Copenhagen

2000 Project assistant on EC project ENHSIN - European Natural History Specimen Information Network

1997-2000 PhD at Dept. of Population Ecology, University of Copenhagen, awarded in biodiversity of insects in semi-natural habitats of agricultural landscapes

1996 Research assistant, Dept. of Population Ecology, University of Copenhagen

1996 Lecturer in Ecology at the Danish University of Education

1995 M.Sc. biology, University of Copenhagen

Organization of conferences, participation in workshops and conferences as speaker (selection)
2008: DanBIF Conference on Biodiversity Informatics and Climate Change Impacts on Life

2007: DanBIF Conference on Biodiversity Informatics and the Barcode of Life

2006: DanBIF Conference on Biodiversity at the Ecosystem Level - patterns and processes, Århus (organiser and moderator)

2005: Lecturer at GBIF mentoring workshop in Accra Ghana, Dept. of botany, Univ. of Ghana: Introduction to GBIF and it's data portal, and to DanBIF, it's IT infrastructure and how to become a GBIF data provider

2004: DanBIF Conference on Molecular Biodiversity, Copenhagen (organiser)

2002: DanBIF Conference on Biodiversity Informatics. What is it, how can we deal with it, and for what may we use it? University of Southern Denmark, Odense (organiser)

Primary fields of research

Current tasks: Node Manager of DanBIF

DanBIF (Danish Biodiversity Information Facility) is the Danish Participant Node of GBIF - The Global Biodiversity Information Facility. 

Read more about DanBIF here

Read more about GBIF here

Former duties

Work Package coordinator, WP 2 of EDIT, June 1, 2006 through August 31, 2007:
The European Distributed Institute of Taxonomy - EDIT - is the collective answer of 27 leading European, North American and Russian institutions to a call of the European Commission, issued in 2004, for a network in Taxonomy for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Research. This project has started on the 1rst of March 2006 and will last 5 years.

EDIT WP2 objectives include to:
- Obtain an overview of the European taxonomic expert and expertise basis and its relation to the global expert and expertise basis
- Facilitate the setting up of taxonomic task forces to address specific research objectives identified by EDIT
- Make information on the expert and expertise basis easily available for all potential users
- Optimize allocation of national and European resources (avoiding unnecessary duplication of expertise)

You may read more about EDIT WP2 here

Go to the main EDIT website

Fields of interest

- Biodiversity Informatics
- Solitary bee and bumble bee: Diversity; Population ecology; Behaviour; Taxonomy

Current research

Introductory remarks on publicationslist

Ph.D. Study: Solitary bees and bumblebees in a Danish agricultural landscape - See Google Scholar link in right-hand menu.
In my Ph. D. project I studied and clarified several aspects of the ecology and biology of solitary bees and bumblebees occurring in the fragmented semi-natural habitats of a Danish agricultural landscape:

• Behavioural adaptations in a solitary bee species, to reduce parasitism from a nest parasite.
• Foraging- and nesting conditions for wild bees in hedgerows, forest edges, field- borders and other linear and areal habitats. 
• Seasonal activity and succession of bee species. 
• Species richness and relative abundance, including estimation of the actual number of species occurring in the agricultural landscape. 
• Dispersal patterns in a winter oilseed rape field, importance of bees in pollination and potential competition from honeybees.

Supervisor at the Biological Institute, University of Copenhagen: Associate Professor Mikael Münster-Swendsen (deceased).