User:Raf Aerts

Contact Info



 * Raf Aerts
 * Division Forest, Nature and Landscape, K.U.Leuven
 * Celestijnenlaan 200E-2411
 * BE-3001 Leuven, Belgium
 * Email me through OpenWetWare

I work in the Forest Ecology and Management research group at the Division Forest, Nature and Landscape of the K.U.Leuven. I learned about OpenWetWare on SciBlog 2008 London, and I've joined because I want to maintain an Open Notebook on my Coffea arabica genetic diversity research.

Education and research positions

 * 2008-2011, Postdoctoral Fellow of the Research Foundation Flanders (FWO)
 * 2006-2008, Postdoctoral Fellow of the K.U.Leuven Research Fund (PDM)
 * 2006, PhD Bioscience engineering, K.U.Leuven
 * 1999, MSc Bioscience engineering, K.U.Leuven

Research interests

 * 1) Genetic diversity of Wild coffee (Coffea arabica) in a fragmented Afromontane landscape
 * 2) Recruitment dynamics of African wild olive (Olea europaea ssp. cuspidata) in degraded Afromontane savanna
 * 3) Forest ecology and forest restoration
 * 4) University Development Cooperation

Publications
// For a complete publication list, please consult my Nature Network profile.
 * 1) Paper1 pmid=18668082
 * 2) Paper2 pmid=18563129

External profiles

 * Forest Ecology and Management lab page
 * ResearcherID
 * LinkedIn
 * ClaimID
 * Nature Network
 * BioBel

Research network

 * VLIR IUC-JU
 * CoCE/ZEF Universität Bonn