Curriculum Vitae
University
education
Jun 2007 Dr. rer. nat. (Promotion)
2004 -2007 PhD student in the BIOMAPS group at the Nees Insitute, University of Bonn
supervisor: Prof. W. Barthlott
2005 - Visiting scholar of the Jetz Lab at UCSD & Yale
2002 Graduation in Botany, Zoology & Geography
2000 Tropical Biology Program in Ecuador; Boston University
1996-2002 Studies in Biology and Geographya the University of Bonn
Professional activities
Jun 2007 Dr. rer. nat. (Promotion)
2004 -2007 PhD student in the BIOMAPS group at the Nees Insitute, University of Bonn
supervisor: Prof. W. Barthlott
2005 - Visiting scholar of the Jetz Lab at UCSD & Yale
2002 Graduation in Botany, Zoology & Geography
2000 Tropical Biology Program in Ecuador; Boston University
1996-2002 Studies in Biology and Geographya the University of Bonn
Professional activities
Dec 2009- Junior Research Group Leader
Biodiversity, Macroecology & Conservation Biogeography
University of Göttingen
Feb 2008 - Nov 2009 Postdoctoral Fellow; University of California, San Diego
Scientific host: Walter Jetz
Jan 2007 - Jan 2008 Research associate Nees Institute, University of Bonn
Jan 2001-Dec 2003 Research and teaching assistant at the Nees Institute,
University of Bonn
Nov 1998 - Mar 1999 Internship at the Federal Ministry of economic cooperation &
development (BMZ), Division "Environment"
Field studies
Nov 2001- Mar 2002 Amazonian Ecuador: Spatial distribution patterns of vascular
epiphytes in Western Amazonia (Tiputini Biodiversity Station, Ecuador)
funded by the DFG
Aug-Dec 2000
Tropical Biology Program, Boston University in Ecuador
Mar-Apr 2000 Surumoni Crane Projects (Austrian Academy of Sciences); Venezuelan
Amazonia: Vegetation studies of understorey plants and vascular epiphytes
various field trips to Central and Southern Europe (Alps, Mediterranean, Scandinavia); Canary Islands; North America
Scholarships & Awards
2008 Wilhelm-Pfeffer-Prize for the best paper awarded by the German Botanical Society
2008-2009 Feodor Lynen Research Fellowship from the Alexander von
Humboldt-Foundation
2007 Postdoctoral Fellowship from the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina
(declined)
2006 Merian Award 2006 given at the 19th Meeting of the Society for Tropical Ecology
2004-2006 Scholarship from the German National Scholarship Foundation
2003 Alwyn Gentry Award 2003 from the Association of Tropical Biology and
Conservation
1998-2002 Scholarship from Evangelisches Studienwerk Villigst e.V.
Reviewer
… for journals
Mar-Apr 2000 Surumoni Crane Projects (Austrian Academy of Sciences); Venezuelan
Amazonia: Vegetation studies of understorey plants and vascular epiphytes
various field trips to Central and Southern Europe (Alps, Mediterranean, Scandinavia); Canary Islands; North America
Scholarships & Awards
2008 Wilhelm-Pfeffer-Prize for the best paper awarded by the German Botanical Society
2008-2009 Feodor Lynen Research Fellowship from the Alexander von
Humboldt-Foundation
2007 Postdoctoral Fellowship from the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina
(declined)
2006 Merian Award 2006 given at the 19th Meeting of the Society for Tropical Ecology
2004-2006 Scholarship from the German National Scholarship Foundation
2003 Alwyn Gentry Award 2003 from the Association of Tropical Biology and
Conservation
1998-2002 Scholarship from Evangelisches Studienwerk Villigst e.V.
Reviewer
… for journals
American Naturalist,
Annals Missouri Botanical Garden,
Biotropica, Conservation Biology, Diversity
& Distributions, Ecography, Ecology, Global Ecology &
Biogeography, Journal of Biogeography, Journal of Tropical Ecology,
Journal of Vegetation Science, Perspectives Plant Ecology, Evolution
& Systematics, Plant Ecology, Plant Ecology & Diversity, PNAS,
Selbyana
… of grant
propsals
Professional memberships
Swiss National
Science Foundation (SNF)
Professional memberships
Ecological Society
of America (ESA)
International Biogeography Society (IBS)
Gesellschaft für Ökologie (GFÖ)
Gesellschaft für Tropenökologie (gtö)
International Biogeography Society (IBS)
Gesellschaft für Ökologie (GFÖ)
Gesellschaft für Tropenökologie (gtö)
