Michael Schaub

Dr. Michael Schaub is a senior scientist and head of the population biology research group at the Swiss Ornithological Institute, and a courtesy professor at the University of Bern, Switzerland.

Michael was trained as an animal populatio ecologist at the universities of Basel and Zürich. After a 1-year postdoc at the Centre National de la Rechereche Scientifique (CNRS) in Montpellier, France, he jointed the Swiss Ornithological Institute. His research interests include population dynamics, capture-recapture models, integrated population models, and migratory birds. He has coauthored approximately 170 peer-reviewed journal publications and the two books on applied Bayesian modeling for ecologists and has taught about 30 week-long workshops all over the world.