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Professional Experience
| from 02/2021 | Researcher at Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium. Project: ‚Within-generational and transgenerational plasticity to nutrient stress in endangered, non-endangered and invasive plants‘ |
| 05/2017 – 02/2021 | Assistant Professor at the Landscape Ecology Group, University of Oldenburg, Germany & Guest Researcher at Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium |
| 05/2016 – 05/2017 | Research Fellow at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB), Brussels, Belgium. Project: ‚Plant traits and species interactions along gradients of N:P:K stoichiometry‘ |
| 10/2011 – 04/2016 | Assistant Professor at the Landscape Ecology Group, University of Oldenburg, Germany |
| 01/2011-08/2011 | Co-Coordinator of the Project COMTESS |
Academic Training
University of Oldenburg, Germany
| 2006 to 2010 | Dissertation at the Institute of Biology and Environmental Sciences, University of Oldenburg, Germany. ‚Funtional traits of salt marsh plants: responses of morphology- and elemental-based traits to environmental constraints, trait-trait relationships and effects on ecosystem properties‚ (summa cum laude), Project TREIBSEL |
University of Rostock, Germany
| 2005 | Diploma thesis ‚The effects of the invasion of Hedychium gardnerianum Ker.-Gaw. (Zingiberaceae) on the regeneration dynamics of a montane rainforest on the Island of Hawai’i‘ |
| 1998 to 2005 | Studies in Biology (Diplom). Major subject: Botany, minor subjects: Ecology, Plant Physiology, Philosophy |
University of Hawai’i, USA
| 2004 | Research in Hawai’i Volcanoes National Park (HAVO) with Dieter-Mueller Dombois (Univ. of Hawai’i at Manoa), Jim Jacobi (USGS) and Tim Tunison (HAVO) |
