Employment
1988 - present | Senior Research Assistant and Professor (since 1996) of physical geography (biogeography) at the Department of Geography of the University of Zurich |
1987 | Research Associate at Botany School (Subdepartment of Quaternary Research) at the University of Cambridge/England. |
1980 - 1986 | Post-Doctoral Assistant (Oberassistent) and Senior Research Assistant (Privatdozent since 1986) in physical geography at the Department of Geography of the University of Zurich |
1976 - 1979 | Studies in botany, assistant and PhD in botany (1979) at the Department of Botany of the University of Basel |
1970 - 1976 | Studies (geography, geology, chemistry, botany, petrography, mineralogy, mathematics and paleontology) and diploma (1976) in geography at the Department of Geography of the University of Zurich |
Professional qualifications
Conradin A. Burga is specialized in plant geography/biogeography and quaternary palaeoecology, especially of high mountain ecosystems of the European Alps (vegetation dynamics; floristic, vegetation and climate history; palynology).
He is
- vice-president of the Tüxen Society of Vegetation Science Hannover
- founder and head of the international working group ‘Biomonitoring/ Global Change’
- vice-president of ASG (Association des géographes Suisses)
- member of several national and international commissions (Swiss Geotopes, Vegetatio Helvetica and Swiss Monitoring of Plant Invaders of the Swiss Academy of Sciences/ scnat, Landscape Ecological Impact on Climate Change/LICC).
He published 1998 the first synthesis of Swiss vegetation and climate history during the later Pleistocene and Holocene. In addition, he is leader of different monitoring projects (glacier forelands of the Swiss Alps). He is member of the International Editorial Board of Mountain Research and Development and of Gredleriana, furthermore the Editor in Chief of the Journal of the Natural Sciences Society of Zurich.