Cornelia Krug is a science policy liaison for the University of Zurich’s Research Priority Programme "Global Change and Biodiversity" and Executive Officer for the bioDISCOVERY Global Research Programme of Future Earth. Having extensively researched the impacts of land use management on animal and plant communities, she is interested in how species and ecosystems respond to environmental change (human-induced or otherwise) and how this affects human well-being. Krug lived and worked in Namibia, South Africa and France before settling in Switzerland.
