Theunis Piersma holds the Rudi Drent Chair in Flyway Ecology at the Groningen Institute for Evolutionary Life Sciences (Faculty of Science and Engineering, UG), and he is Senior Research Scientist Research Department of Coastal System at the NIOZ Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea.
This chair is supported by World Wildlife Fund The Netherlands (WNF), BirdLife Netherlands (VBN), Gieskes-Strijbis Fund and others.