CURRICULUM VITAE

CURRICULUM VITAE
Baptiste Schmid
Biodiversity and Climate Research Centre (BiK-F)
Senckenberganlage 25
60325 Frankfurt am Main
Germany
bschmid@senckenberg.de
CURRENT POSITION
Since December 2010 PhD Student : Spatial determinants of animal pollination and plant
fecundity in South African Fynbos: the Protea-bird system
EDUCATION
September 2007 -
March 2009
October 2003 -
September 2006
August 1997 -
June 2003
Master of Science ETH in Biology, Major in Ecology and Evolution,
ETH Zürich
Bachelor of Science ETH in Biology,
ETH Zürich
Matura Typus B, Major in Biology and Chemistry,
Lycée Collège des Creusets in Sion, Valais
SCIENCE PROJECTS AND ACTIVE MEMBERSHIPS
Since 2010
Active member of the GREA, Groupe de Recherche en Ecologie Arctique
March 2008 -
March 2009
March - July 2008
Master Thesis, ETH Zürich
Stress during the breeding season: individual variation in circulating
corticosterone and prolactin levels in the hoopoe(Upupa epops)
Prof. Dr. Paul Schmid-Hempel, Chair of Experimental Ecology,
ETH Zürich
Dr. Lukas Jenni, Swiss Ornithological Institute, Sempach
Semester project, ETH Zürich
Methods of local breeding density estimation of the hoopoe population in
Valais
Prof. Dr. Paul Schmid-Hempel, Chair of Experimental Ecology,
ETH Zürich
Dr. Lukas Jenni, Swiss Ornithological Institute, Sempach
CV Baptiste Schmid

September 2007 -
February 2009
Semester project, ETH Zürich
Statistical analysis of the distribution of Crithidia bombi genotypes in the
Field
Prof. Dr. Paul Schmid-Hempel, Chair of Experimental Ecology,
ETH Zürich
Dr. Mathias Wegner, former Chair of Experimental Ecology, ETH Zürich,
at present IFM-GEOMAR, Leibniz Institute of Marine Sciences, University
of Kiel, Germany
PUBLICATIONS
Schmid B., Chastel O. and Jenni L., 2011. The prolactin response to an acute stressor in relation
to parental care and corticosterone in a short-lived bird, the Eurasian hoope. General and
Comparative Endocrinology, 174, 22-29.
Schmid B., Tam-Dafond L., Jenni-Eiermann S., Arlettaz R., Schaub M., Jenni L. (2013).
Modulation of the adrenocortical response to acute stress with respect to brood value, reproductive
success and survival in the Eurasian hoopoe. Oecologia, DOI 10.1007/s00442-013-2598-7.
Schmid B., Dafond L., Jenni-Eiermann S., Arlettaz R., Schaub M. and Jenni L., in prep. Baseline
corticosterone levels and fitness consequences in the Eurasian hoopoe.
ATTENDED CONFERENCE
10 – 14 September 2012 Poster presentation at the 42nd Annual Meeting of the Ecological Society
of Germany, Austria and Switzerland (GfÖ), Lünneburg, Germany
17 – 19 July 2012 Oral presentation at the Fynbos Forum, Cape St-Francis, South Africa
31 May – 3 June 2011 Poster presentation at the Fynbos Forum, Still Bay, South Africa
21 - 26 August 2009 7 th Conference of the European Ornithologists’ Union, Zürich, Switzerland
WORK EXPERIENCES
September 2009 - Scientific assistant - Publication of data collected during the Master thesis
July 2010
with the Swiss Ornithological Institute
July - August 2009
April - June 2009
May - August 2006
Field assistant - Project of the Groupe de Recherche en Ecologie
Arctique (GREA) led by Dr. Benoît Sittler in Nord-East Greenland
Field assistant - Project of the Swiss Ornithological Institute on kestrels
and barn owls
Scientific assistant - Projects of the Institute of Plant Science,
Chair of Applied Entomology, Prof. Dr. Silvia Dorn, ETH Zürich
2006 - 2007 Civil service at the SVS/BirdLife Schweiz visiting centre of the marsh in
Neerach, Zürich (February - July 2007) and at the workshop for disabled
persons in the foundation “Valais de Coeur” in Sierre, (March 2006)
During high school
Various part-time jobs
CV Baptiste Schmid