Aimée Classen

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Aimée Classen is an American ecologist who studies the impact of global changes on a diverse array of terrestrial ecosystems. Her work is notable for its span across ecological scales and concepts, and the diversity of terrestrial ecosystems that it encompasses, including forests, meadows, bogs, and tropics in temperate and boreal climates.

She is currently the director of the University of Michigan's Biological Station (UMBS), a student and faculty research organization at the university devoted to studying various types of environmental change.^[1][2]

Education and work[]

Classen attended Smith College, in Massachusetts, where she completed her bachelor's degree in biology in 1995. She then went on to graduate studies at Northern Arizona University, where she obtained her PhD in biology in 2004. Afterwards, in 2005 she completed her postdoctorate fellowship at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee and continued there as a staff scientist until 2008.^[3]

She began her first teaching position as an assistant professor in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the University of Tennessee-Knoxville. In 2015, she became an adjunct associate professor at the university. During this period, she began to hold multiple positions at a time. From 2014 to 2018, she served as an associated professor at the Natural History Museum of Denmark in Copenhagen. During that same time, she became a faculty member in the Center of Macroecology at the University of Copenhagen in 2014 and an adjunct professor at the Victoria University of Wellington in New Zealand in 2016, positions which she continues to hold today. Finally, from 2018 to 2020, Classen served four simultaneous roles at the University of Vermont: professor for the Rubenstein School at the University of Vermont, director for the George D. Aiken Forestry Sciences Laboratory, fellow of the Gund Institute for Environment, and adjunct professor for the Department of Biology.^[3]

Classen's most recent appointments are as professor of ecology and evolutionary biology at the University of Michigan and director of the University of Michigan Biological Station. She was appointed to the directorship in the summer of 2020.^[2]

Honors and awards[]

• 1991–1993. NCAA All-American in swimming
• 1995. Sigma Xi
• 1995. Smith College Brown Botany Prize
• 2002. Best paper, Soil Science Society of America S-7
• 2002–2003. Merriam-Powell Center for Environmental Research Graduate Fellow
• 2006. US Department of Energy Outstanding Mentor Award
• 2007. Promising young scholar, The US National Academy of Sciences Frontiers in Science
• 2007. Kavli Foundation Science Fellow
• 2007. Best paper, Soil Science Society of America S-7
• 2012. UT College of Arts and Sciences Research and Creative Achievement Award
• 2012. Pi Beta Phi teaching award
• 2014. Promising young scholar, The US National Academy of Sciences, Frontiers in Science
• 2015. Association for Women Soil Scientists Mentoring Award - to recognize individuals (male or female) who have made significant contributions to the education, professional growth, & achievement of females in soil science
• 2020. Fellow, Ecological Society of America

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