Prof. Dr. Loïc Pellissier
Prof. Dr. Loïc Pellissier
Associate Professor at the Department of Environmental Systems Science
ETH Zürich
Additional information
Research area
Loïc Pellisier’s research focuses on understanding and modelling past and future landscape dynamic and its link to biodiversity. He uses the fundamental knowledge in ecology and evolution of landscape biodiversity patterns provided by his research to improve sustainable management of natural resources. He also investigates the impact of climate change on ecosystems including the terrestrial and the marine realm. His current research objectives are to improve methods of modelling biodiversity across landscapes and to track change in ecosystems more accurately with biodiversity monitoring technologies.
Loïc Pellissier has been Professor of Ecosystems and Landscape Evolution at the Institute of Terrestrial Ecosystems at ETH Zurich and at WSL since July 2015.
He was born in Martigny, Switzerland, in 1984.
Loïc Pellissier studied at the University of Lausanne and completed his PhD in 2012. He then led a postdoctoral research project at the Arctic Research Center (Roskilde), which is affiliated to Aarhus University in Denmark. From 2013 to 2015 he was research group leader at the University of Fribourg.
Course Catalogue
Autumn Semester 2025
| Number | Unit |
|---|---|
| 701-0553-00L | Landscape Ecology |
| 701-1411-00L | Environmental DNA - Concepts and Applications for Biodiversity Monitoring at the Landscape Scale |
| 701-1613-01L | Landscape Patterns and Processes |
| 701-3001-00L | Environmental Systems Data Science: Data Processing |
| 701-3003-00L | Environmental Systems Data Science: Machine Learning |