Rate My Professor Cleo Bertelsmeier

Cleo Bertelsmeier is Associate Professor and group leader in the Department of Ecology and Evolution at the University of Lausanne. She joined the University of Lausanne as a postdoc researcher in 2015, advanced to Assistant Professor on the tenure track in 2019, and was promoted to Associate Professor in 2023. Prior to her appointments at the University of Lausanne, she held a postdoc position at the Environment Institute of the University of Adelaide in Australia in 2014. She completed her PhD thesis in 2013 at the Laboratoire d’Ecologie, Systématique et Evolution at Université Paris Sud 11 in France. She earned a BA in Biological Sciences from the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom in 2009 and obtained her German Abitur and French baccalaureate from Ziehenschule in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, in 2006.

Her research centers on biological invasions by species introduced outside their native ranges, which pose major threats to biodiversity and incur substantial societal costs. Current themes include the spread of invasive insects linked to the history of globalization through trade and human mobility, as well as the establishment of invasive species in novel climates. She maintains broad interests in insect ecology, invasion biology, and climate change impacts, with her group investigating related topics in community ecology, macroecology, and myrmecology.