ProfessorJason Tylianakis

Awarded one of the ten inaugural prestigious Rutherford Discovery Fellowships (awarded 2010, commenced 2011). These fellowships are designed for "Supporting New Zealand’s most talented early- to mid-career researchers", and involved a two-stage application process (written first stage then interview). The selection of Fellows is based on three criteria: - Calibre of the applicant as a researcher. - Assessment of the proposed programme of research. - Calibre of the applicant as a research leader. Of 115 applicants, 19 were interviewed and 10 were awarded fellowships.

I co-organised/co-chaired (with Teja Tscharntke) a symposium at the International Congress of Entomology in Durban, South Africa in July 2008. I also co-organised/co-chaired (with Daniel Garcia) a symposium at the European Ecological Federation conference in Avila, Spain in October 2011. I was also a member of the organising committee for the NZ Ecological Society conference 2007.

I have been invited to give two keynote/plenary talks at international conferences: German Entomological society (DgaaE) Conference, Goettingen, Germany 2009; Association of Tropical Biology and Conservation Asia Pacific Chapter Conference, Chiang Mai, Thailand 2009. Also, I was one of 14 invited speakers at an OECD-sponsored conference in Tokyo, Japan (2010) to inform the 10th Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biodiversity (CBD/COP10). There were over 170 attendees, but only invited speakers gave presentations. The 14 speakers were selected as world leaders in Biodiversity research, Forest management, Ecological economics, and Conservation policy.

Invited to talk/participate in 15 international conferences/workshops. Mendoza Argentina 2007; Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Panama 2007; Kuching Malaysia 2007; Chiang Mai Thailand 2009; Goettingen Germany 2009; Brisbane Australia 2009 - 2 talks; Tokyo Japan 2010; Pittsburgh, USA 2010 (did not attend); Puerto Varras Chile 2011; Bangkok Thailand 2011; Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden, China 2011; Melbourne Australia 2011; Uppsala Sweden 2011; Environmental Futures Centre Queensland Australia 2011 (did not attend).

Invited to speak nationally at: Royal Society of New Zealand, Canterbury Branch public seminar (2007), Lincoln University (2007, 2009), Ecol Soc conference (Rotorua) 2011 (unable to attend because I was overseas at time).

Invited to be specialist panel member at the NZ Climate Change Centre conference, Wellington, NZ (2009) and join the Expert Panel on Biodiversity, Forest Management and REDD+ in Rome, Italy (invited 2011, but unable to attend due to commitment clashes, though I was nevertheless invited to be a lead author on their report document). This was organised by the International Union of Forest Research Organizations (IUFRO).