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Curriculum Vitae
Brody Sandel
Ecoinformatics and Biodiversity Group • Department of Bioscience
Ny Munkegade 114 • Aarhus University • 8000 Aarhus C, Denmark
Tel: +45 8715 6128 • Email: [email protected]
Website: http://brodysandel.wordpress.com
EDUCATION
2010
Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley, Integrative Biology.
Dissertation: Empirical and theoretical approaches to understanding variation in
diversity across multiple spatial scales
Thesis committee: Wayne Sousa (advisor), David Ackerly, John Harte
2004
B.A. Carleton College, Biology. Summa cum laude, with distinction
RESEARCH APPOINTMENTS
2012 Assistant Professor, Aarhus University. Ecoinformatics and Biodiversity
Group, Department of Biological Sciences and Center for Massive Data
Algorithmics (MADALGO), Department of Computer Science.
2010–2012 Postdoctoral Researcher, Aarhus University. Ecoinformatics and Biodiversity
Group, Department of Biological Sciences and Center for Massive Data
Algorithmics (MADALGO), Department of Computer Science.
Topographic controls on global patterns of species richness, distributions, vegetation
and hydrology
Advisors: Jens-Christian Svenning, Lars Arge
2010
Graduate Student Researcher for David Ackerly, University of California,
Berkeley.
Vegetation transitions in the San Francisco Bay Area under climate change
2004, 2009 Graduate Student Researcher for Wayne Sousa, University of California,
Berkeley.
Field work and data analysis on forest structure in Panamanian mangroves
2002-2003 Summer Researcher for Mark McKone, Carleton College
Restoration of Minnesota tallgrass prairie, field work and analysis
1999-2001 Research Intern Environmental Research Laboratory, University of Arizona
Ecotoxicology of copper in the hard waters of the American southwest
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Spring 2011, ’12 Instructor, R for Macroecology, Aarhus University
Statistical programming course for Ph.D. students
Fall 2009
Instructor, Ecology, San Francisco State University
Upper-level introduction to ecology, including lecture and laboratory
Fall 2008, ’09
Graduate Student Instructor, Integrative Biology Teaching
Colloquium, University of California, Berkeley.
Graduate seminar on pedagogy and instructional methods in biology
Spring 2007
Graduate Student Instructor, Introduction to the Methods of
Environmental Science, University of California, Berkeley.
Course on study design to prepare students for senior thesis
Fall 2006
Teaching Assistant, Tropical Rainforest Ecology, Carleton College
Field research course at La Selva Biological Research Station, Costa Rica
Fall 2005
Graduate Student Instructor, Evolution, University of California,
Berkeley.
An upper-level introduction to evolution
Fall 2004, ’07
Graduate Student Instructor, Introductory Biology (Biology 1B),
University of California, Berkeley.
Introduction to plant structure and diversity, evolution and ecology
Received the UC Berkeley Outstanding Graduate Student Instructor Award in
2008
PEER-REVIEWED PUBLICATIONS
Greve, M., A.M. Lykke, C.W. Fagg, J. Bogaert, I. Friis, B. Sandel, J. Ndayishimiye, C.
Sandom, M. Schmidt, J. Wieringa, G. Zizka and J.-C. Svenning. Accepted. Diversity
patterns of African acacias - the role of the environment, historical climate change
and herbivore pressure. Journal of Ecology.
Sandel, B. and J.D. Corbin. Online early. Scale and diversity following manipulation of
productivity and disturbance in Californian coastal grasslands. Journal of
Vegetation Science.
Sandel, B. and Dangremond, E. 2012. Climate change and the invasion of
California by grasses. Global Change Biology, 18: 277-289.
Sandel, B., L. Arge, B. Dalsgaard, R.G. Davies, K.J. Gaston, W.J. Sutherland and J.-C.
Svenning. 2012. Response – Global endemism needs spatial integration. Science,
335: 285-286.
Sandel, B., L. Arge, B. Dalsgaard, R.G. Davies, K.J. Gaston, W.J. Sutherland and J.-C.
Svenning. 2011. The influence of Late Quaternary climate-change velocity on
species endemism. Science, 334: 660-664.
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Dalsgaard, B., E. Magård, J. Fjeldså, A.M. Martin González, C. Rahbek, J.M. Olesen,
J. Ollerton, R. Alarcón, A. Cardosa Araujo, P.A. Cotton, C. Lara, C. Graco
Machado, I. Sazima, M. Sazima, A. Timmermann, S. Watts, B. Sandel, W.
Sutherland and J.-C. Svenning. 2011. Specialization in plant-hummingbird
networks is associated with species richness, contemporary precipitation and
Quaternary climate-change velocity. PLoS ONE, 6: e25891.
Sandel, B., J.D. Corbin and M. Krupa. 2011. Using plant functional traits to guide
restoration: A case study in California coastal grassland. Ecosphere, 2: Article 23.
Sandel, B., L.J. Goldstein, N.J.B. Kraft, J.G. Okie, M.I. Shuldman, D.D. Ackerly, E.E.
Cleland, K.N. Suding. 2010. Contrasting trait responses in plant communities to
experimental and geographic variation in precipitation. New Phytologist, 188: 565575.
Sandel, B. and J.D. Corbin. 2010. Scale, disturbance and productivity control the nativeexotic richness relationship. Oikos, 119: 1281-1290.
Sandel, B. 2009. Geometric constraint model selection– An example with New
World birds and mammals. Ecography, 32: 1001-1010.
Sandel, B. and A.B. Smith. 2009. Scale as a lurking factor: Incorporating scaledependence in experimental ecology. Oikos, 118: 1284-1291.
Sandel, B.S. and M.J. McKone. 2006. Reconsidering null models of diversity: Do
geometric constraints on species' ranges necessarily cause a mid-domain effect?
Diversity and Distributions, 12: 467-474.
Camill, P., M.J. McKone, S.T. Sturges, W.J. Severud, E. Ellis, J. Limmer, C.B. Martin, R.T.
Navratil, A.J. Purdie, B.S. Sandel, S. Talukder, and A. Trout. 2004. Community and
ecosystem-level changes in a species-rich tallgrass prairie restoration. Ecological
Applications, 14: 1680-1694.
MANUSCRIPTS IN REVIEW
Smith, A.B., B. Sandel, N.J.B. Kraft and S. Carey. In review. Characterizing scaledependent community assembly using the functional-diversity-area relationship.
Ecology.
B. Sandel and J.-C. Svenning. In review. Human impacts drive a global topographic
signature in tree cover. PNAS.
Schleuning, M., J. Fründ, A.-M. Klein, S. Abrahamczyk, R. Alarcón, M. Albrecht, G.
Andersson, S. Bazarian, K. Böhning-Gaese, R. Bommarco, B. Dalsgaard, M. Dehling,
A. Gotlieb, M. Hagen, T. Hickler, A. Holzschuh, C. Kaiser-Bunbury, R.J. Morris, B.
Sandel, W. Sutherland, J.-C. Svenning, M. Templin, T. Tscharntke, S. Watts, C.
Weiner, M. Werner, N. Williams, C. Winqvist, C. Dormann, N. Blüthgen. In review.
Specialization of mutualistic interaction networks decreases towards tropical
latitudes. Current Biology.
Tsirogiannis, C., B. Sandel and D. Cheliotis. In review. Efficient computation of popular
phylogenetic tree measures. Workshop on Algorithms in Bioinformatics 2012.
MANUSCRIPTS IN PREPARATION
B. Sandel, P. Agarwal, P. Bøcher, T. Mølhave, L. Arge and J.-C. Svenning. Improved
algorithms for high-resolution hydrological flow modeling. For submission to
Nature Geoscience.
Sandom, C., L. Dalby, C. Fløjgaard, K.T. Nielsen, W.D. Kissling, J. Lenoir, B. Sandel and
J.-C. Svenning. Predator-prey interactions as drivers of species diveristy? A macroscale analysis of mammal richness across trophic levels. For submission to Ecology.
POPULAR SCIENCE PUBLICATIONS
Svenning, J.-C., B. Sandel, C. Fløjgaard and M.C. Forchhammer. 2010. Økologi i en
syndflod af data. Aktuel Naturvidenskab 5: 34-37. (Ecology in a deluge of data)
CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS
Svenning, J.-C., Dalsgaard, B., Kissling, W.D., Lenoir, J., Sandel, B. 2011. Strong
paleoclimatic imprints on ecological patterns and function across scales.
European Ecological Federation Congress, Ávila, Spain
Sandel, B., Dalsgaard, B., Arge, L., Svenning, J.-C. 2011. Late Quaternary climatechange velocity: Implications for modern distributions and communities.
Ecological Society of America, Annual Meeting, Austin, Texas.
Sandel, B., Arge, L., Svenning, J.-C. 2011. Climate change velocity since the Last
Glacial Maximum and its importance for patterns of species richness and range
size. Meeting of the International Biogeographic Society, Heraklion, Greece.
Sandel, B., L. Goldstein, N. Kraft, J. Okie, M. Shuldman, D. Ackerly, E. Cleland, K.
Suding. 2010. Trait responses in plant communities to experimental and geographic
variation in precipitation. Ecological Society of America, Annual Meeting,
Albuquerque, New Mexico.
Corbin, J. and B.S. Sandel. 2008. Limitation of native grass seedling establishment in
California coastal prairie: Seed availability versus competitive interactions.
Ecological Society of America, Annual Meeting, Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
Sandel, B.S. and J. Corbin 2008. Scale, diversity, and community convergence in a
grassland restoration experiment. Ecological Society of America, Annual Meeting,
Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
Sandel, B.S. and J. Corbin. 2007. Scale-dependent effects of restoration practices in
Californian grasslands (poster). Ecological Society of America, Annual Meeting, San
Jose, California.
Sandel, B.S. and M.J. McKone. 2005. Geometric constraints on species' ranges do not
necessarily produce a mid-domain effect in null models. Ecological Society of
America, Annual Meeting, Montreal, Quebec.
GUEST LECTURES
2012
Going further with R. Applied Statistics course, Aarhus University.
2012
Climate-change velocity since the Last Glacial Maximum: Implications for
modern distributions and communities. Cambridge University.
2011
The influence of long-term climate stability on modern patterns at
macroecological and community scales. Center for Macrecology, Evolution
and Climate, University of Copenhagen.
2011
The velocity of climate change and species endemism. Biogeography and
Macroecology course, Aarhus University.
2010
Some computational challenges in macroecology. Annual MADALGO retreat,
Sandbjerg, Denmark.
2010
Climate stability and diversity. Biogeography and Macroecology course,
Aarhus University.
2008
Invasive Plants of California. Freshman Seminar, Invasive Species: Why,
When and Where? UC Berkeley.
2006
Global Biodiversity. Population and Community Ecology course, UC
Berkeley.
2004
Range-based null models of species diversity. Carleton College Sigma Xi
Society.
WORKING GROUPS
2010
iPlant Collaborative Conference, Las Vegas, Nevada.
2008
Ushering in a new era of functional ecology: Dynamics in a changing
environment, National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis,
Santa Barbara, California.
GRANTS AND AWARDS
2005-2010 Graduate Research Fellowship, National Science Foundation ($135 000)
2004-2009 Berkeley Fellowship ($54 000)
2009
Robert and Nancy Beim Endowed Graduate Field Research Fund ($2000)
2007
Robert and Nancy Beim Endowed Graduate Field Research Fund ($2000)
2008
Gray Endowment Summer Research Fellowship ($2000)
2003
Hughes Grant for undergraduate Research ($3000)
2002
Hughes Grant for undergraduate Research ($3000)
2007
Department of Integrative Biology Travel Grant ($300)
2005
Department of Integrative Biology Travel Grant ($300)
BIBLIOMETRICS
13 peer-reviewed publications in international scientific journals
1 popular science publication
H-Index of 5
119 total citations
Faculty of 1000 has evaluated 1 paper as a Must Read