Principal Investigators (PIs)
BECC consists of scientists at different stages of their career. A particular role is played by BECC’s Principal Investigators (PIs) who, as representatives and leaders within the research groups encompassed by BECC in Lund and Gothenburg, contribute to the development of BECC.
A Principal Investigator (PI) in BECC is a permanently employed researcher at LU or UGOT (as researcher, associate senior lecturer, lecturer, or Professor). A BECC-PI demonstrates scientific leadership through pursuing an independent research programme closely related to BECC’s research strategy, and significantly contributes to the strategic development of BECC as a research environment.
List of current Principal Investigators.
BECC research delimitation
BECC develops research that targets sustainable management of ecosystem services in a world undergoing rapid change and loss of biodiversity. BECC researchers study how direct and indirect human impacts on the climate and ecosystems influence biodiversity and ecosystem functioning from local to global scales, and how knowledge about these dynamics may inform mitigation and adaptation decisions in the face of such changes.
BECC focuses on three Grand Challenges that must be tackled to assess the combined consequences of anthropogenic emissions, climate and land-use change on biodiversity and ecosystem services and provide a basis for informed societal responses, with a focus on critical changes in forest, agricultural, urban and arctic ecosystems, including interactions between terrestrial and aquatic systems. The knowledge generated by BECC serves the integration of biodiversity and ecosystem services into policy development, decision-making and praxis, from local to global level.
Learn more from BECC strategies and plans
Nominate new PIs
To become a PI, a researcher must be nominated by a current BECC PI to the BECC Board. Nominations are made twice a year (deadline 1 April and 1 November) followed by a selection process by the BECC board. A PI may nominate maximum 2 researchers per year.
Terms of PI membership
A PI in BECC is a permanently employed researcher at LU or UGOT (as researcher, associate senior lecturer, lecturer, or Professor). A BECC-PI demonstrates scientific leadership, for example through pursuing an independent research program closely related to BECC’s research strategy, and significantly contributes to the strategic development of BECC as a research environment.
Benefits
- Invited to contribute to the development of BECCs strategic documents.
- Invited to use BECC support functions (for example related to outreach), given available capacity.
- Can apply for all BECC’s funding mechanisms: Incubator grant, Actions, workshops, guest researchers etc.
- Invited to participate in BECC activities.
- Can use BECC as affiliation in applications, publications, and presentations.
Requirements
- Participates in BECC activities, including PI meetings.
- Contributes by reporting activities (for example publications, conference participations, outreach activities etc) in line with BECC’s research delimitation, regardless of funder.
- Contributes to the development of BECC by proposing research, and by engaging in communication and dissemination of BECC-related findings.
- Highlights BECC affiliation (and funding when applicable), for example in relevant applications, talks, reports and scientific publications.
More information about BECC support functions, both in terms of benefits and requirements, on the following website:
Membership renewal
BECC PI-membership is renewed every three years by the Board.
A membership can be discontinued due to inactivity, change of research direction, move outside LU/UGOT, or retirement. The Board can choose to change status from BECC PI to BECC researcher or BECC friend or a final termination of association