Curriculum
| 4/2009 – 5/2013 | Doctoral studies at the Institute for Environmental Decisions, ETH Zürich, Switzerland: What defines sustainability? An ecological and societal analysis of wild medicinal plant and mushroom collection in the Hengduan Mountains, Southwest China. | |
| 1/2009 – 10/2012 | Associate member in the research project “What defines Qiang-ness? Towards a phylogenetic assessment of the Southern Qiangic languages of Muli”, by the Centre de recherches linguistiques sur l'Asie Orientale (CNRS). | |
| 9/2007 – 1/2009 | Studies in Sinology at the University of Zurich, Switzerland. | |
| 2004 – 2006 | Research assistant in the project ‘Plants and people in the Shuiluo Valley’, at the Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences. | |
| 2/2004 | MSc in botany. Master thesis: “Variation in floral scent emission and pollinator attraction in Gymnadenia conopsea s.l. and G. odoratissima (Orchidaceae)”. | |
| 2000 – 2003 | Diploma studies in systematic botany and zoology at the University of Zurich and at the ETH Zürich. |
Publications
Huber F.K., Weckerle C.S., Hsu E. (2017). The Shuhi House between Reformist China and Revivalist Tibet. Asiatische Studien 71(1): 353–374. DOI 10.1515/asia-2016-0028
Hsu E., Huber F.K., Weckerle C.S. (2017). Condensing Life Substances within the House: The Rice-Boiling Shuhi of Southwest China. Asiatische Studien 71(1): 281–303. DOI 10.1515/asia-2016-0023.
Giacomelli N., Yang Y.P., Huber F.K., Ankli A., Weckerle C.S. (2017). Angelica sinensis (Oliv.) Diels: Influence of Value Chain on Quality Criteria and Marker Compounds Ferulic Acid and Z-Ligustilide. Medicines 2017, 4, 14; doi:10.3390/medicines4010014.
Chirkova, K., Huber, F.K., Weckerle C.S., Daudey, H., Pincuo, G.R. (2016). Plant Names as Traces of the Past in Shuiluo Valley, China. Journal of Ethnobiology 36(1): 192-214. doi: 10.2993/0278-0771-36.1.192
Huber, F.K., Morlok, M., Weckerle, C.S., Seeland, K. (2015). Livelihood Strategies in Shaxi, Southwest China: Conceptualizing Mountain-Valley Interactions as a Human-Environment System. Sustainability 7: 3204-3229. doi:10.3390/su7033204
Huber, F.K., Yang, Y.P., Weckerle, C.S., Seeland, K. (2014). Diversification of livelihoods in a society in transition: a case study of Tibetan communities in Southwest China. Society and Natural Resources 27:7, 706-723. DOI: 10.1080/08941920.2014.901465
Schiestl, F.P., Huber, F.K., Gomez, J.M. (2011). Phenotypic selection on floral scent: trade-off between attraction and deterrence? Evolutionary Ecology 25: 237-248. DOI 10.1007/s10682-010-9409-y
Huber, F.K., Ineichen, R., Yang, Y.P., Weckerle, C.S. (2010). Livelihood and conservation aspects of non-wood forest product collection in the Shaxi Valley, Southwest China. Economic Botany 64(3): 189-204.
Weckerle, C.S., Yang, Y.P., Huber, F.K., Li, Q.H. (2010). People, money, and protected areas: the collection of the caterpillar mushroom Ophiocordyceps sinensis in the Baima Xueshan Nature Reserve, Southwest China. Biodiversity and Conservation 19: 2685-2698.
Weckerle, C.S., Huber, F.K., Yang, Y.P. (2009). A new hysteranthous species of Chelonopsis (Lamiaceae) from Southwest China. Novon 19(4): 552-558.
Weckerle, C.S., Ineichen, R., Huber, F.K., Yang, Y.P. (2009). Mao’s heritage: medicinal plant knowledge among the Bai in Shaxi, China, at a crossroads between distinct local and common widespread practice. Journal of Ethnopharmacology 123: 213-228.
Krummenacher, J., Maier, B., Huber, F., Weibel, F. (2008). Ökonomisches und ökologisches Potential der Agroforstwirtschaft (Can agroforestry be economic? The analysis of a farm with longtime experience). Agrarforschung 15(3): 132-137.
Weckerle, C.S., Huber, F.K., Gao F., Yang, Y.P., Sun, W.B. (2007). Cultivated plants and subsistence agriculture among the Lanman-Xumu in the Shuiluo Valley (Sichuan, SW China). Journal of Economic and Taxonomic Botany 31 (2): 303-313.
Weckerle, C.S., Huber, F.K., Yang, Y.P., Sun, W.B. (2006). Plant knowledge of the Shuhi in the Hengduan Mountains, Southwest China. Economic Botany, 60(1): 3-23.
Weckerle, C.S., Huber, F.K., Yang, Y.P., Sun, W.B. (2005). Walnuts among the Shuhi in Shuiluo, Eastern Himalayas. Economic Botany, 59(3): 287-290.
Weckerle, C.S., Huber, F.K., Yang, Y.P., Sun, W.B. (2005). The Role of Barley among the Shuhi in the Tibetan Cultural Area of the Eastern Himalayas. Economic Botany 59(4): 386-390.
Huber, F.K., Kaiser, R., Sauter, W., Schiestl, F.P. (2005). Floral scent emission and pollinator attraction in two species of Gymnadenia (Orchidaceae). Oecologia 142: 564-575.
Hosken, D.J., Martin, O.Y., Born, J., Huber, F. (2003). Sexual conflict in Sepsis cynipsea: female reluctance, fertility and mate choice. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 16: 485-490.