since 2012 I have served as an external referee for the following academic journals:
The American Naturalist (4), Animal Behaviour, Aquatic Conservation: Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems (2), Behavioral Ecology, Biology Letters (3), Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, Conservation Biology (2), Current Opinion in Insect Science, Current Zoology, Ecological Applications, Ecological Indicators (3), Ecology (2), Ecology and Evolution (3), Ecology Letters (8), Ecosphere, Environmental Development, Freshwater Biology (5), Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution (2), Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment (3), Functional Ecology (6), Hydrobiologia, Insect Science, Journal of Animal Ecology (5), Journal of Applied Ichthyology, Journal of Fish Biology, Nature Ecology and Evolution (2), Neobiota (3), Oecologia (7), Oikos (2), PeerJ, People and Nature (2), Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, Proceedings of the Royal Society B (2), Royal Society Open Science, Scientific Reports, The European Zoological Journal, Theory in Biosciences, Turkish Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, Zoology.
A verified list of journal reviews can be found in my ResearcherID profile at Web of Science (note that numbers of reviewed manuscripts may differ as in WoS re-reviewing of previously reviewed manuscripts is sometimes counted separately).
from 2019 to 2024 I was an editorial board member at Oikos as a subject editor covering food webs, metabolic theory and predator-prey interactions. Currently (2025) I am guest editing at the journal Biological Conservation where we are putting together a special issue on Artificial Light at Night from a local to global scale: biological impacts and conservation challenges led by Robin Heinen.
I am also a reviewer and recommender for Peer Community In, a service for peer review and recommendation of preprints that aims to provide a non-profit alternative compared to more traditional publishing models.
I have also served as ad-hoc reviewer on grant proposals for the National Science Foundation of the United States of America (NSF), the German Science Foundation (DFG), the Israel Ministry of Innovation, Science and Technology (MIST), the Ministry of Education, Science, Culture and Sports of the Republic of Armenia (hesc.am) the British Ecological Society (BES), and the EU network BiodivERsA.
I am currently a member of the British Ecological Society (since 2010). I have also been a member in the past with the Ecological Society of America (2016-2022) and the Society for Conservation Biology (2018-2020).
from 2018 to 2020 I volunteered as ambassador for ASAPbio, a scientist-driven non-profit promoting transparency and innovation in life science communication.
from 2009 to 2011 I was a participant in the ESF research network SIZEMIC
last update: 2025-08-20