Teja Tscharntke has been Professor of Agroecology at the University of Göttingen, Germany, since 1993. He made his Master in both sociology and biology at the universities in Marburg and Giessen, did his doctorate in Hamburg and habilitated in Karlsruhe. His main research focuses on landscape perspectives on biodiversity patterns and associated ecosystem services of temperate and tropical regions, especially biological pest control, pollination and quantitative food webs. Further research addresses interdisciplinary studies integrating socio-economic and ecological analyses. He is "Highly Cited Researcher" (annually since 2015) and has been honored 2020 by the Royal Entomological Society (Award for Insect Conservation), the British Ecological Society (Marsh Award for Ecology 2020) and the Ecological Society of Germany, Austria and Switzerland (Honorary Medal 2021).