Angelika Hilbeck

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Angelika Hilbeck (born December 6, 1959 ) is a German agro-ecologist . She researches and teaches at the Institute for Integrative Biology in the Department of Environmental Systems Science at ETH Zurich . Her main focus is on the effects of genetically modified plants on ecosystems.

Career

Hilbeck graduated from the University of Hohenheim with a diploma in agricultural biology in 1990 . She received her PhD in entomology from North Carolina State University in 1994 . She has been working at the Institute for Integrative Biology at ETH Zurich since 2000, where she qualified as a professor in 2005 and heads the environmental biosafety research group there.

Act

In teaching and research, Hilbeck deals with the effects of green genetic engineering in agriculture, food production and the environment. One focus of her work is the relationship between biodiversity and transgenic plants . Hilbeck was involved in the implementation of the Cartagena Protocol on Biosecurity for the UN . Due to her experience in international agriculture and in the local situation of small farmers, she was appointed to work on the World Agricultural Report (IAASTD 2008). Hilbeck is a board member at Brot für alle and was chairwoman of the European Network of Scientists for Social and Environmental Responsibility (ENSSER), on whose board she is still active. She is a member of the Advisory Board of the Association of German Scientists .

Hilbeck's research was repeatedly exposed to attacks from affected industries. In her work in the 1990s, for example, she showed that Bt maize can damage the larvae of the common lacewing , whereupon she was exposed to hostility from the Ciba-Geigy company . Hilbeck's case sparked a debate about freedom of research at industry-funded institutes.

In the public debate about ways out of the climate crisis , Hilbeck advocates turning away from a certain form of intensive agriculture, which she calls "industrial agriculture", because of its energy intensity and environmental damage , and instead advocates turning to agroecological production systems because of its contribution to biodiversity . In a contribution she wrote in 2015 together with other scientists, including Vandana Shiva , she explained that there is by no means a consensus on the safety of genetically modified organisms.

In panel discussions and as a guest author in newspapers, Hilbeck brings her viewpoint on the safety of green genetic engineering to the public debate.

Publications (selection)

  • Angelika Hilbeck, Martin Baumgartner, Padruot M. Fried, Franz Bigler: Effects of transgenic Bacillus thuringiensis corn-fed prey on mortality and development time of immature Chrysoperla cornea (Neuroptera: Chrysopidae). In: Environmental Entomology . Volume 27, No. 2, 1998, pp. 480-487, doi: 10.1093 / ee / 27.2.480 .
  • Angelika Hilbeck, Rosa Binimelis, Nicolas Defarge, Ricarda Steinbrecher, András Székács, Fern Wickson, Michael Antoniou, Philip L. Bereano, Ethel Ann Clark, Michael Hansen, Eva Novotny, Jack Heinemann, Hartmut Meyer, Vandana Shiva , Brian Wynne : No scientific consensus on GMO safety. In: Environmental Sciences Europe . Volume 27, No. 1, 2015, doi: 10.1186 / s12302-014-0034-1 .
  • Angelika Hilbeck, Matthias Meier, Jörg Römbke, Stephan Jänsch, Hanka Teichmann, Beatrix Tappeser : Environmental risk assessment of genetically modified plants - concepts and controversies. In: Environmental Sciences Europe. Volume 23, No. 1, 2011, p. 13, doi: 10.1186 / 2190-4715-23-13 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d CV Angelika Hilbeck, ETH Zurich website (pdf)
  2. ↑ Jack Heinemann (New Zealand), Tsedeke Abate (Ethiopia), Angelika Hilbeck (Switzerland), Doug Murray (USA): Biodiversity. In: Weltagrarbericht: Synthesis report , website of Hamburg University Press, p. 115f (pdf for download)
  3. ^ H. Meyer, A. B. Heinrich: European Network of Scientists for Social and Environmental Responsibility (ENSSER). In: Environmental sciences and pollutant research . Volume 22, October 2010, pp. 513-516, doi: 10.1007 / s12302-010-0157-y .
  4. ↑ Dr. Angelika Hilbeck's biogram on the website of the Association of German Scientists , accessed on December 18, 2018
  5. ^ Danny Hakim: Scientists Loved and Loathed by an Agrochemical Giant. The New York Times, December 31, 2016
  6. ↑ The limit of freedom of research . In Tages-Anzeiger from January 15, 2017, accessed on December 18, 2018
  7. ↑ Maria Mast: If climate researchers would rule the world. Zeit Online Wissen, December 11, 2018
  8. ↑ Angelika Hilbeck et al .: No Scientific Consensus an GMO Safety. In: Environmental Sciences Europe. Volume 27, No. 1/2015, doi: 10.1186 / s12302-014-0034-1
  9. ↑ Profile Angelika Hilbeck. In: Genetic Literacy Project, July 2017
  10. ↑ Angelika Hilbeck and Hartmut Meyer: The risk assessment of genetically modified plants is insufficient. In: Die Zeit vom March 7, 2012, accessed on December 18, 2012
  11. ↑ Genetic engineering: 30 years of empty promises? . Summary of a panel discussion by the European Network of Scientists for Social and Environmental Responsibility (ENSSER), Zukunftsstiftung Landwirtschaft and Association of German Scientists in September 2018, accessed on December 18, 2018
personal data
SURNAME Hilbeck, Angelika
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German agroecologist
DATE OF BIRTH December 6, 1959