Sven Klimpel

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Sven Klimpel (born October 29, 1973 ) is a German parasitologist , infection biologist and professor at the Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main .

biography

Sven Klimpel studied biology and fishery biology at the Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel and the Institute for Oceanography (IfM, today Helmholtz Center for Ocean Research Kiel ). In 2000 he graduated from the University of Kiel with a diploma. From 2000 to 2003 he was a research associate in an EU project. He received his doctorate in 2003 from the Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf at the chair of Heinz Mehlhorn . During his post-doctoral period, various research stays abroad followed (including Brazil, Indonesia, Chile, USA). From 2004 he was a research assistant and a junior research group leader. In 2008 he completed his habilitation at the Heinrich Heine University with a thesis on the effects of metazoic parasites in aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems. Since 2010 he has been Professor of Medical Biodiversity and Parasitology at Goethe University and the Senckenberg Biodiversity and Climate Research Center . From 2011 to 2013 he was also interim director of the SDEI. Since 2013 he has been Professor of Integrative Parasitology and Zoophysiology (IPZ) and Director of the Institute for Ecology, Evolution and Diversity at Goethe University. From 2016 to 2017 Sven Klimpel was Vice Dean and since 2017 he has been Dean of the Faculty of Biosciences at Goethe University.

Sven Klimpel is known to the general public through numerous radio broadcasts, TV appearances and newspaper reports, in which he explains parasitological and biological infection issues and issues in a factual and generally understandable manner.

Research priorities

The department headed by Klimpel deals with the species and genetic diversity of organisms and pathogens transmitted by infectious diseases as well as their area dynamics, population dynamics, ecology, development cycles and transmission mechanisms. The core topics range from the identification and description of new and newly increasing pathogens (including Zika, Hanta, Ebola, West Nile virus, leishmaniasis, Chagas disease), vectors (including ticks, mosquitoes, sandflies, horseflies, Rodents, bats) and reservoir hosts (including crawling cats, domestic animals and farm animals) in terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems to determining their current distribution to researching the phenotypic and genetic evolution of their ability to spread and climate tolerance as well as the experimental and field-based elucidation of pathogenicity factors and Transmitter skills. The resulting results are used for predictive modeling of future distribution areas and risks of vectors and infectious diseases under global and regional climate models.

Memberships

Sven Klimpel is a member of various specialist societies: u. a. German Society for Parasitology , German Zoological Society , Advisory Board of the Paul Ungerer Foundation, Board of Directors GRADE.

Publications (selection)

  • Parasites of Marine Fish and Cephalopods , Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019 ISBN 978-3-030-16220-7
  • Progress in Parasitology , Parasitology Research Monographs 2, Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2011, ISBN 9783642213953 .
  • Arthropods as Vectors of Emerging Diseases , Parasitology Research Monographs 3, Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2012, ISBN 9783642288418 .
  • Climate Change and Biodiversity - Effects on Health , Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, Darmstadt 2012, ISBN 9783534252350 .
  • Bats (Chiroptera) as Vectors of Diseases and Parasites , Parasitology Research Monographs 5, Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2014, ISBN 9783642393327 .
  • Metazoan Deep-Sea Fish Parasites, Acta Biologica Benrodis , Verlag Natur und Wissenschaft, Solingen 2009, ISBN 9783936616613 .

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Remarks

  1. ↑ see for example elifesciences.org May 6, 2020: Modeling the climatic suitability of Chagas disease vectors on a global scale
personal data
SURNAME Klimpel, Sven
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German parasitologist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH October 29, 1973