• Curriculum vitae

    • 10/2023: appointment adjunct Professor
    • since 03/2013: Assistant Professor, Insitute of Landscape Ecology, University of Muenster
    • 06/2012: Habilitation (postdoctoral lecturing qualification) or venia legendi for soil science, Faculty of Forest, Geo and Hydro Science, Dresden University of Technology
      • Thesis: Land-use change: Consequences for soil microorganisms and soil functions; the procedure of the post-doctoral lecturing qualification to obtain the Venia legendi for soil science
      • Scientific Presentation: Indicators of soil degradation and rehabilitation
      • Lecture: Use of isotopes and biomarkers in soil science
    • 07/2004: Graduation (Dr. rer. nat./ PhD), Institute of Geography, Ruhr-University Bochum
      • Thesis: Priming effects of dissolved organic substrates on the mineralisation of lignin, peat, soil organic matter and black carbon determined with 14C and 13C isotope techniques
    • 09/2000: Diploma in Geography, Institute of Geography, Ruhr-University Bochum
      • Focus: Soil Science and Landscape Ecology
      • Subsidiary subjects: Chemistry, Geology/Hydrogeology, Water Management and Environmental Engineering
    • 06/1995: "Abitur“ - Walburgisgymnasium Menden
      • Main subjects: Mathematics, Spanish, Biology and Geography

  • Grants

    • 2012: DAAD- short-term lectureship at the Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana, Bucaramanga, Colombia
    • 2010: ESF- long-term exchange grant at BIOEMCO, Centre INRA Versailles-Grignon, France, within the networking programme “MOLTER”
    • 2010: DAAD-travel grant: World Congress of Soil Science, Brisbane, Keynote: Response of soil microorganisms to land-use change in China, Ecuador and Germany

  • Research Projects

    • 2024: Carbon stocks and matter dynamics in protected forests of North Rhine-Westphalia (Landesbetrieb Wald und Holz NRW)

    • 03/2023 - 02/2026: RecovFun - Recovery mechanisms of above and belowground diversity and function of grassland, following reduction in intensity of land use (HA 4597/12-1)

    • 03/2023 - 02/2026: PEGasuS - Plant-Enzyme Interactions along Gradients of Resource Stoichiometry (HA 4597/11-1)

    • 2020 - 2023: BiCO2: Biodiversity and carbon storage along a forestry intensity gradient (Waldklimafonds-Projekt: FKZ: 2218WK23A4)
    • 04/2017 - 03/2020: ESCAPE II - Effects of disturbance and seed addition on plant community assembly and ecosystem functions (HA 4597/6-4)
    • 01/2016 - 12/2018: Biophysical Controls on Priming Effect of Soil Organic Matter in Mollisols (Projekt vom Chinesisch-Deutschen Zentrum für Wissenschaftsförderung: GZ 1124)
    • 04/2014 - 03/2017: ESCAPE I - Effects of disturbance and seed addition on plant community assembly and ecosystem functions (HA 4597/6-3)
    • 04/2012 - 12/2016: Facilitation of biodiversity by shelter effects of Pinus patula and Alnus acuminata in montane ecosystems of South Ecuador; Part: Adapted site classification and nutrient cycling (HA 4597/4-1)
    • 03/2010 - 05/2013: Interactions of organic matter and microbial dynamics in pasture soils along management chronosequences (HA 4597/1-2)
    • 03/2007 - 02/2010: Organic matter and microbial community structure in soils of the mountain rainforest region in Ecuador (HA 4597/1-1)
    • 09/2004 - 03/2007: Soil N dynamics as affected by different land use in Western and Southern China
    • 07/2004 - 12/2007: N-Dynamik und Struktur mikrobieller Populationen in Abhängigkeit von Vegetationsmustern in landwirtschaftlichen Böden
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