Vita

Professional employment and academic education

Dec 2022 – present       Assistant professor (W1) of Rhizosphere Biogeochemistry, Institute of Landscape Ecology, WWU Münster

Oct 2022 – present       Independent Emmy Noether research group leader, Institute of Landscape Ecology, WWU Münster

Jan 2021 – present       Research Associate, Smithsonian Environmental Research Center (SERC), Smithsonian Institution

Jun 2021 – Sep 2022    Postdoctoral junior research group leader Blue Carbon Science as part of the Research Unit Applied Plant Ecology (Prof. Kai Jensen), Institute of Plant Science and Microbiology (IPM), Universität Hamburg

Jan 2021 – May 2021    Postdoctoral fellow, Institute of Soil Science, Center for Earth System Research and Sustainability (CEN), Universität Hamburg

Dec 2019 – Dec 2020   Postdoctoral fellow, Smithsonian Environmental Research Center (SERC), Smithsonian Institution

Jun 2019 – Dec 2019    Postdoc, Department of Bioscience, Aquatic Biology, Aarhus University

Apr 2019 – Jun 2019     Visiting postdoc, Geomicrobiology, GFZ Helmholtz Center Potsdam

Sep 2017 – Jun 2019    Postdoc, Applied Plant Ecology, Universität Hamburg

May 2014 – Sep 2017   Doctoral Student: Dr. rer. nat. in Biology (summa cum laude), equivalent to PhD, Universität Hamburg, Germany (supervisor: Kai Jensen).

Jun 2013 – Sep 2013    Graduate student fellow, Biogeochemistry lab, Smithsonian Environmental Research Center

Oct 2012 – May 2014    MSc (graduate) student: MSc Biology, Universität Hamburg

Mar 2012 – Oct 2012    Research intern, Biogeochemistry lab, Smithsonian Environmental Research Center

Oct 2008 – Oct 2011     BSc (undergraduate) student: BSc Biology, Universität Hamburg