I’m very excited to announce that in January 2015 I will be taking up a position as Professeur ordinaire at the Université de Lausanne, or “Unil”, on the shores of Lake Geneva, in Switzerland. I will be joining a vibrant group of scholars in the Institute of Geography and Sustainability, which is part of the ten-year old Faculty of Geosciences and the Environment. I will be teaching into the undergraduate geography and environmental sciences program, and into the postgraduate development studies program (part of the masters in geography). And I will be maintaining my research interests, and look forward to collaborating with new colleagues at Unil while maintaining collaborations at Monash and elsewhere. This is a wonderful opportunity for both personal and professional reasons, and I look forward to it!
By the way, the Swiss government has some attractive PhD scholarships and Post-doc funding for international candidates. And watch this blog, as I will soon be advertising for two PhD Assistantships funded by the University of Lausanne. I will ‘say goodbye’ to Monash in a later blog entry.
I leave you with some photos of my move from an office in the “Ming Wing” at Monash to one in the “Géopolis” at Unil. From old modernism to new modernism?
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- An unflattering view of the “Ming Wing” (the Menzies Building) in its modernist glory (from neoscosmos.com)
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- Géopolis, at the University of Lausanne (photo from flickr – S. Pracchinetti)
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- An aerial view of Lausanne
Christian Kull 
Congratulations! I am delighted for you personally and for the future of conservation biology. I interpret your success as a growing appreciation of a more pragmatic approach to conservation.
This is marvellous. I wish you much enjoyment and much success.
Congratulations – this is big news!
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