curriculum vitae
Scientific interest
Biodiversity management, functional biodiversity research, community ecology, conservation, invasion biology, landscape ecology
Professional career
Since 2015: Chair of conservation ecology group at University of Marburg
2015: Offer of two tenure professor position W3 Agroecology & Biodiversity (Hohenheim) & W3 Conservation ecology (Marburg)
2014: Offer of two tenure professor positions – W2 Animal Ecology (Münster) & W2 Conservation ecology (Marburg)
2008 – 2015: Robert Bosch Junior Professor at the University of Marburg
2008: Research fellow at the Zoological Institute, Community Ecology, University of Bern
2005 – 2007: Postdoc at the University of Mainz in charge of co-ordinating the BIOTA East Africa subproject E11 – Consequences of human disturbance for avian diversity, seed dispersal and regeneration processes of East African rainforests
2002 – 2005: Research assistant, University of Mainz, Germany, Community & Macroecology, Prof. Böhning-Gaese
Academic education
2002 – 2005: PhD project at the University of Mainz with the title: Impact of forest fragmentation and disturbance on the endangered tropical tree Prunus africana (Rosaceae)
2001 – 2002: Diploma thesis at University of Marburg and University of Mainz with the title: Pollination ecology of the dioecious tree Commiphora guillauminii (Burseraceae) in Madagascar
1996-2001: Studies of biology with emphasis on conservation biology, ecology, zoology at Philipps-University of Marburg
Prices & scholarships
2nd teaching award in the category junior scientists at the Faculty of Biology at University of Marburg (2014)
ProProfessur mentoring programme for female scientists (2012-2013)
Robert Bosch Junior Professorship for research into “Sustainable Use of Renewable Natural Resources” (2008-2014)
Career advancement by Robert Bosch foundation through coaching programme “Fast Track” (2007-2009)
Merian Price in the category best talk of junior scientist at the 18th annual conference of the Society for Tropical Biology in Berlin (February 2005)
Subsidisation by Marie-Friedericke-Wagner foundation to attend A Special Symposium of the British Ecological Society (BES) and the Annual Meeting of the Association of Tropical Biology and Conservation (ATBC), Aberdeen, U.K (July 2003)
Scientific activities
– Board member
Since 2006 Secretary general of Society for Tropical Ecology (gtö)
2010 – 2012 Association for Tropical Biology and Conservation (ATBC)
Since 06/2009 “Women in science” Robert Bosch Foundation
2009 -2014 Professional training “Development and management of research projects” Universities Kassel and Marburg
Since 2006 Society for Tropical Ecology (gtö)
member of the organization and academic committee of the 2009 joint meeting of the Society for Tropical Ecology and the Association for Tropical Biology and Conservation
– Reviewer for funding bodies
German Research Foundation (DFG) Germany, National Science Centre (NSC) Poland, National Research Foundation (NRF) South Africa, Alexander von Humboldt Stiftung, Carl-Zeiss-Stiftung, DAAD, EU Marie Curie Individual Fellowships
– Editorial Boards
Biotropica (since 2008), Open Journal of Ecology (2009-2011), Ecotropica (since 2010), PLoS ONE (2012-2014), Oecologia (since 2013)
– Reviews for journals
Acta Oecologica, African Journal of Ecology, American Naturalist, Animal Conservation, Austral Ecology, Basic and Applied Ecology, Biodiversity and Conservation, Biological Conservation, Biotropica, Conservation Biology, Ecology, Ecotropica, Environmental and Experimental Botany, Forest Ecology and Management, Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment, Functional Ecology, Journal of Applied Ecology, Journal of Ecology, Journal of Tropical Ecology, Landscape Ecology, Oecologia, Oikos, Open Journal of Ecology, PLoS ONE, Population Ecology and Trees – Structure and Function, Scientific Reports
