contact:
Cornelius Hammer
Phone: (+49) 381 8116-101
Fax: (+49) 381 8116-199
E-Mail: cornelius.hammer@ior.bfa-fisch.de
Address: Johann Heinrich von Thünen-Institut
Bundesforschungsinstitut für Ländliche Räume, Wald und Fischerei (vTI)
Institut für Ostseefischerei
Alter Hafen Süd 2
18069 Rostock
Deutschland
Curriculum vitae:
Dr. habil. Cornelius Hammer
Cornelius "Nils" Hammer is the Director of BFAFi's Institute for Baltic Sea Fisheries in Rostock since 01 July 2002, and Director General of the Federal Research Centre since 2006.
Member of the Federal Research Centre for Fisheries, at the Institute for Sea Fisheries, Hamburg, since December 1994.
General Secretary of the "Deutsche Wissenschaftliche Kommission für Meeresforschung" (German Scientific Commission for Marine Research) since 2006.
Tasks previous to 2002
- Member of ICES Assessment WG for Herring South of 62°N.
- Member of ICES Advisory Committee for Fisheries Management (ACFM)
- Member of ICES Planning Group on Herring Surveys (PGHERS)
- Member of ICES Planning Groug on Surveys on Pelagic Fish in the Norwegian Sea (PGSPFN)
- Member of ICES Working Group for the Mackerel and Horse Mackerel Egg Surveys (WGMEGS), chair 2000-2002.
- German Delegate at ICES (International Council for the Exploration of the Sea) since 2006
- Member of ICES Study Group on ACFM Working Procedures (SGWP).
- Member of ICES Study Group on the incorporation of additional information for fish stock assessments (SGFI), chair 2003-2004
- Chair of ICES Baltic Committee since 2005
- Member of ICES Consultation Committee
- WG to Study Appropriate Harvest Strategies for Medium and Long-Term Management of Norwegian Spring Spawning Herring
- EU-Expert and for several project application evaluation
- Supervision and/or conducting the pelagic fish surveys:
- Triennial International Mackerel and Horse Mackerel Egg Survey
- Annual International Hydroacoustic survey on North Sea Herring and Sprat
- Annual International Hydroacoustic Survey on Atlanto-Scandian Herring (Norwegian Spring Spawning Herring)
- Annual Herring Larvae Survey in the North Sea and English Channel
- Associate Professor at the University of Hamburg
- Menber of Scientific Advisory Board of Alfred Wegener Institute (AWI)
- Member of the Senate of Research Centers of BMELV
Previous and ongoing Projects
- EU-Study Hydroacoustic Herring Surveys (ECHOHER)
- EU Study North Sea Herring Surveys (Hersur)
- EU Study North Sea Herring Surveys II (Hersur II)
- EU Study Atlanto-Scnadian Herring (ASH)
- EU-Study Atlanto-Scandian Herring II (ASH-II) (coordinator)
- EU-Study Atlanto-Scandian Herring III (ASH-III)
- EU-Study Egg-surveys (coordinator)
- EU-Study Ichthyoplankton Surveys
- EU-Accompanying Measure Egg Staging Workshop Lowestoft (coordinator)
- EU-Project Horse Mackerel Stock Identification (HOMSIR)
- EU-Project Interactions of Marine Predators on Sand Eel Stocks (IMPRESS)
- EU-Concerted Action European fish Aging Network (EFAN)
- EU-Concerted Action Towards Accreditation of Age Reading Procedures (TACADAR), member of Steering Committee
- EU-Project UNCOVER (ongoing)
- European Research Aerea (ERA - Net), Coordination of European Marine Fisheries Research Programme (MariFISH)
Education and professional experience
Studies of Hydrobiology and Fishery Sciences at the University of Hamburg, Diploma (Hydrobiology and Fishery Sciences) and Doctoral thesis (ecophysiology) at the University of Hamburg. 2.5 years project assistant and fishery expert at the University of Diliman, Manila, Philippines as a member of a GTZ-project. Consultant, evaluator for different project for GTZ, DAAD and NGO's in the Philippines, Indonesia, Sudan, India. Short-term lecturer for DAAD in Brazil (Manaus). Project Manager at GTZ for projects on techn ical cooperation in fisheries. Assistant professor at the University of Hamburg (1989-1995). Associate professor at the University of Hamburg since 1996.
List of Publications
(Last update 11/2003)
