
I’m an experienced scientist and I’m passionated to plan, conduct, analyse and publish hypothesis-based field and laboratory studies, using up-to-date technical and statistical methods. I’m an excellent team player, with exceptional motivational skills especially under rough field conditions.
Professional career
Professional career
since 2021
Professor for Faunistics and Wildlife Conservation, Department of Agriculture, Ecotrophology, and Landscape Development, Anhalt University of Applied Sciences, Bernburg, Germany
2020 – 2021
Assistant Professor, Evolutionary Zoology, Department of Biosciences, University Salzburg, Austria
Within the project Epic Roads (Ecology in Practice: Improving infrastruCture habitats along roads)
2013 – 2019
Assistant Professor, Chair of Restoration Ecology, Department of Ecology and Ecosystem Management, Technische Universität München, Freising, Germany
2010 – 2012
Research Scientist (PostDoc), Leibniz-Centre for Agricultural Landscape Research (ZALF) e.V., Müncheberg, Germany
Scientific coordinator for the AgroScapeLabs-project (Agricultural landScape Laboratories)
2007 – 2010
Research Scientist (PhD student), Agroecology, Georg-August-University, Göttingen, Germany
2006
Field assistant, RIFCON GmbH, Leichlingen, Germany
Education
Education
2019
Venia Legendi for “Landscape Ecology” (Privatdozentin)
2014 – 2017
Habilitation (postdoctoral qualification) in “Landscape Ecology”, Technische Universität München, Freising, Germany
Thesis: “The impact of landscape patterns on animal movement and ecosystem functions”
2007 – 2010
Dr. sc. agr., Agroecology, Department of Crop Sciences, Georg-August-University, Göttingen, Germany
Doctoral studies for agricultural sciences in Göttingen (PAG)
Dissertation: “Effects of farming practice and landscape complexity on vertebrate diversity and ecological functioning in agroecosystems”
2000 – 2007
Biologist (Dipl. Biol.), Friedrich-Schiller-University, Jena, Germany
Studies in biology, special emphasises: ecology, zoology, medical microbiology
Diploma thesis in cooperation with the Museum of Natural Science Berlin, Germany: “Small mammals under influence of different land use in an arid ecosystem in Northern Namibia”
2000
Abitur (qualification for university entrance), Clemens-Winkler-Gymnasium, Aue, Germany
Advanced training
Advanced training
2019
TUM horizons advanced training courses: Leadership training
2013 – 2015
Advanced teaching qualification for higher education, ProLehre, Department for Teaching and Learning in Higher Education, Technische Universität München, Germany
Basic-level certificate of learning and teaching in higher education of the Bavarian Universities
Academic functions
Academic functions and other scientific merits
Memberships
Member of the Ecological Society of Germany, Austria and Switzerland (GfÖ)
Expert activities
Member of the Editorial Board of Landscape Ecology (since 2017)
Reviewer for 23 international journals
Reviewer of grand proposals for: the German Federal Environmental Foundation (DBU), the Austrian Science Fund (FWF)
Awards
UN Decade on Biodiversity for the research project “Flowering ribbons for bees in Munich” (12/2020)
UN Decade on Biodiversity for the research project “Ecosystem functions of rare arable plants” (02/2020)
Dr.-Heinrich-Baur Sponsorship Award to support extraordinary and outstanding research in agricultural sciences (06/2016)
Qualifications
Qualifications
- IT knowledge: R!, EndNote, ArcGIS, QGis, Inkscape, Typo3, MS-Office
- Languages: German (native speaker), English (fluent)
- Species knowledge: Small mammals, Farmland birds, Arable plants