Jochen Jaeger received his PhD from the Department of Environmental Sciences at the ETH Zurich (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology) in 2000. In 2001, he went to Ottawa as a postdoctoral fellow with Dr. Lenore Fahrig in her Landscape Ecology Laboratory at Carleton University. From 2003 to 2007 he was back in Zurich at the ETH as a research associate. He joined Concordia University in July 2007. His research team received the IENE Project Award 2011 for their project "Landscape Fragmentation in Europe" from the Infra Eco Network Europe in September 2011. He received the a Sustainable Champion Award from Concordia University in April 2022. In addition to his position at the Department of Geography, Planning and Environment, he is an affiliated member of the Department of Biology and a member of the Loyola Sustainability Research Centre (LSRC). Members of Dr. Jaeger's lab are working in the fields of landscape ecology, road ecology, the quantification and assessment of landscape structure and landscape change, land consumption through urban sprawl, ecological modelling, environmental indicators, environmental impact assessment, and novel concepts of problem-oriented trans-disciplinary research. 

Two recent papers related to my presentation about urban sprawl on the planet and about the effect of greenbelts are available here: https://journals.plos.org/sustainabilitytransformation/article?id=10.1371/journal.pstr.0000034 and https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0169204622001815 and were summarized for the general public here https://www.ioer.de/en/press/news/study-on-global-urban-sprawl and here https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/green-belts-curb-urban-sprawl-montreal-concordia-researchers-1.6642469.