2018

Invited participant of workshop “Sustainable Water Management in Mining and Post-Mining Landscapes”, organized by the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina, Belo Horizonte (Brasil)

since 2016

Task leader for “Remote sensing of ecosystem services” in GEO BON (Group on Earth Observations Biodiversity Observation Network)

since 2013

Work package leader, Integrated Project “Land Use Conflicts” in UFZ research unit “Ecosystems of the future”

since 2012

Head of working group “Biodiversity and ecosystem services”, Department of Computational Landscape Ecology, UFZ Leipzig

2012

Dissertation (Dr. rer.nat.), Faculty of Arts, University of Würzburg

2010

Best doctoral student paper award, International Environmental Modelling and Software Society (iEMSs), Biennial conference in Ottawa (Canada)

2008-2010

Several research stays with CONABIO (Mexican National Commission for the Knowledge and Use of Biodiversity), Mexico-City

2007-2012

Scientific assistant, German Remote Sensing Data Center (DFD) of the German Aerospace Center (DLR), Oberpfaffenhofen

2005-2006

Studies of Geography (with specialization in Geographic Information Systems and remote sensing), University of Würzburg

2004-2007

Scholarship by the German Academic Scholarship Foundation

2004

Semester abroad, University of Umeå (Sweden)

2001-2007

Studies of Biology (Majors: Vegetation ecology, Tropical ecology and Molecular plant physiology), University of Würzburg