Judith Riedel is an internationally experienced ecologist with sound expertise in statistics and biodiversity research as well as a wealth of expertise in the successful coordination of scientific teams. She holds a PhD from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) and worked as a research associate at FiBL (Research Institute of Organic Agriculture) from 2013 to 2020.
Her research focuses on biodiversity, agroecology and sustainability. Sound scientific analysis as well as knowledge transfer and exchange with practitioners are pivotal to her work.
“I’m interested in the interactions and interconnections in ecosystems and in biodiversity and its significance for humans. We are embedded in complex global networks and all our actions have consequences for people on the other side of the world; food systems must change. Innovative agroecological farming offers solutions to this challenge that can be both sustainable and economically profitable. If from the start we consider the ultimate consequences of processes and focus on practical implementation, we can together be successful in implementing the United Nation’s development goals and instigate change.”
Projects
- Organics that go further - retour aux sources: Projct leader
- Environmental calculator: Project leader
- Climate Farmers - The KlimaBauer initiative: Project leader
- Strengths and challenges of Swiss milk production strategies - A scientific assessment: Project leader
- Consultancy Feldfreunde Association: Associate
Committee work
- Member in the Living Soils Switzerland Scientific Committee of the Earthworm Foundation
Curriculum vitae
- Since 2021 Director of the Institute of Agroecology
- 2020 - 2021 Co-founder and Deputy Director of the Institute of Agroecology
- 2018 - 2020 Research Associate Directorate at the Institute of Organic Agriculture FiBL
- 2016 - 2018 Research Associate at FiBL, Department of International Cooperation
- 2013 - 2016 Research Associate (Postdoc) at Agroscope, Institute for Sustainability Sciences - Biosafety
- 2013 - 2016 Freelancer at Centre Suisse de Cartographie de la Faune (CSCF)
- 2009 - 2013 Research associate at ETH Zurich, Institute of Agricultural Sciences
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