Prof Irene Tieleman

Irene Tieleman is an animal ecologist and ecophysiologist, with specific research interests covering the adaptive capacity of birds to environmental change, and healthy animals in healthy environments. A substantial part of her work focuses on rain-driven systems in Sub-Saharan Africa. Here, she focuses on the responses of birds to natural and human-induced changes in environmental conditions, for example through climate change, agricultural intensification or urbanization. Irene Tieleman is a professor at the Groningen Institute for Evolutionary Life Sciences (GELIFES) at the Faculty of Science and Engineering (FSE) of the University of Groningen (UG). She has published more than 120 articles in peer-reviewed journals, and serves on multiple editorial boards. She is currently involved in collaborative projects in Kenya, Nigeria, Zambia and South Africa.