since 03/2016
Researcher at the landscape ecology group in the SERIOR project
Geostatistical analysis of chemical and biological monitoring data

06/2012 – 12/2015
Postdoctoral fellow at Eawag, Swiss Federal Institute for Aquatic Science and Technology, Department Systems Analysis, Integrated Assessment and Modelling. Dübendorf, Switzerland
Model development and Bayesian calibration to investigate pesticide effects on aquatic benthos communities

03/2009 - 05/2012
Postdoctoral researcher at the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research – UFZ, Department System Ecotoxicology, Leipzig, Germany
Statistical analysis and dynamic modelling of combined effects
of toxicant stress and biotic interactions on populations, ecological exposure and effect assessment of pesticides at landscape scale

2005-2009
PhD student, Landscape Ecology Group; Carl v. Ossietzky University, Oldenburg, Germany; Thesis “Biodiversity of urban brownfields - Modelling species occurrence and persistence in dynamic habitats”

08/2003 - 11/2003
Intership at the Freshwater Group, Centre for Ecology and Hydrology (CEH), Edinburgh, UK

1998 - 2004
Studies of Geoecology at the Technical University of Braunschweig;
Thesis “Estimating phosphorus export to surface waters: Data series analysis, export coefficient and AnnAGNPS modelling for the River Swale catchment” in cooperation with the CEH, Edinburgh, UK