Prof Dr. Marcel E. Visser (1960) graduated from Leiden University in 1987, and continued there as a PhD student in the Animal Ecology Group for four years, working on the life-history of insect parasitoids. After his PhD he obtained an EC Science Programme Fellowship to continue his parasitoids research at Imperial College (UK). In 1993 he shifted systems when he became a post-doc at the Netherlands Institute for Ecology, working on laying date in Great Tits. In 1996 he was appointed as a Senior Researcher and in 2002 as Head of Department.

His main interests are the interaction between ultimate and proximate aspects of timing, particularly in the Oak – Winter Moth – Great Tit/Pied Flycatcher system, and in the interaction between individual decision making and population dynamics. In June 2005 he was appointed as Professor on Seasonal Timing of Behaviour at Groningen University. In December 2006 he obtained a personal VICI grant from Innovational Research Incentives (NWO). He is currently subject editor for Global Change Biology. His publications can be viewed here.

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