Curriculum Vitae

ACADEMIC EDUCATION and WORK EXPERIENCE

Since 07/2015 ongoing

PostDoc at the Department of Palynology and Climate Dynamics, Göttingen University,
03/2017-06/2018: Parental leave

PostDoc at the Department of Plant Systematics, University of Bayreuth, Germany
6/2014-6/2015: Parental leave

Doctoral degree program in Biodiversity and Ecology, Mark: Summa cum laude (with highest honours), Thesis title: Studies on late Quaternary environmental dynamics on Mt Kilimanjaro(Supervisor: Prof. H. Behling, Prof. H. Jungkunst, PD A. Hemp)

Honorary Equal Opportunity Commissioner at the Biology Faculty of the University of Göttingen, Germany (committee activities, appeals procedures, consulting)

Master degree in Biodiversity and Ecology at the University Göttingen , Germany, Mark: 1.0 (Excellent) MSc Thesis title:Assessing South American grassland dynamics in space and time - a pollen morphological pilot study (Supervisor: Prof. H. Behling)

Bachelor degree in Biodiversity and Ecology at the University Göttingen, Germany, Mark: 1.4 (Excellent) BSc Thesis title: Mapping Global Myxomycete Distribution (Supervisor: Prof. S.R. Gradstein)

Research Assistant in the Department for Palynology and Climate Dynamics at the University of Göttingen, Germany (in various DFG projects)

Research Assistant in the Rainforest Research & Conservation Project Taricaya in Puerto Maldonado/Peru

Research Assistant in the Biological Consulting Office BioConsultSH, Husum, Germany

High school diploma at the Hermann-Tast-Schule in Husum, Germany

Start Up Funding by the University of Göttingen for young postdoctoral researchers: 10.000 Euro

Grant by the ICDP for the participation in the ICDP Workshop on Deep Drilling of Lake Chad, September 21-23, Monpellier, France

DKN (Deutsches Komitee für Nachhaltigskeitsforschung) Future Earth Working Group: Positive impacts through land use change, Time period: 2015 - 2016 (18 months)

DFG (German Research Foundation) Project SCHU 2978/1-2 Studies on late Quaternary environmental on Mt. Kilimanjaro - comparing the wet northern with the dry southern slopes (in cooperation with Prof. Behling, University Göttingen).

International Continental Scientific Drilling Program (ICDP) sub-Project Reconstructing vegetation dynamics from calibrated pollen data (PIs: L. Schüler-Goldbach, S. Rucina, A. Hemp) in the ICDP Project DeepCHALLA: two glacial-interglacial cycles (ca. 250,000 years) of climate and ecosystem dynamics on the East African equator (Project start 2015/2016)

Grant by the Office for Professional Equality, University Bayreuth, for supporting female junior scientist.

Grant by the Göttingen International Action of the German University Excellence Initiativefor the participation in the 10th International NCCR Climate Summer School, 4.-9.9.2011 in Grindelwald, Switzerland.

Grant by the Göttinger Universitätsbund for the participation in the Symposium O Futuro dos Campos: Conservação y Uso Sustentável, 3.-5.8.2009 in Porto Alegre/Brazil

• 10th International NCCR Climate Summer School Climate Change, Extremes and Ecosystem Services, 4.-9.9.2011, Grindelwald, Switzerland
• 5th ESA Earth Observation Summer School on Earth System Monitoring & Modelling, 2.-13.8.2010, ESA-ESRIN, Frascati, Italy
• Urbino Summer School of Palaeoclimatology, 9.-20.7.2010, Urbino, Italy
• Towards quantitative landscape reconstructions from pollen diagrams calibration and simulation approaches,Institute for Plant Sciences, University of Göttingen
• Multivariate Data analysis in Palaeoecology Course, Institute for Plant Sciences, University of Göttingen
• Multivariate Data analysis and Data handling in Palaeoecology Course,Institute for Plant Sciences, University of Göttingen
• Earth System Research and Modelling Course, Centre for Environmental System Research (CESR), Kassel
• Research and Knowledge Management Course, Institute for Forestry, University of Göttingen

Languages: German, English (fluent), Spanish and Dutch (advanced), French (basic)

Reviewing: Central European Journal of Biology, Palynology, Quaternary International, Frontiers in Plant Science

Software/IT: MS Office, R, ArcView/ArcGIS, CANOCO, Tilia, C2, Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop, network administration, IT Management


RESEARCH PERIODS ABROAD

Tanzania

Palaeo- and vegetation-ecological field work at Mt Kilimanjaro, Pare Mountains, Mt Meru as part of PhD/PostDoc project financed by the German Research Foundation (DFG) - since 2009 on-going

International Continental Scientific Drilling Program (ICDP) DEEPChalla coordination and preparation field trip - 9/2013

Expedition to the Campos, the southern Brazilian grasslands, the Atlantic Rainforest and the Araucaria forests close to Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul with focus on vegetation ecology and conservation management - 8/2009

Expedition to Yucatan Peninsula with focus on vegetation ecology and archaeology - 2/2009

Field assistant in the Rainforest Research & Conservation Project Taricaya, Madre de Dios with focus on bird ecology, vegetation inventories, medicinal plants,sustainable tourism and agriculture, conservation - 2003-2006

Field assistant in radar observations of migratory birds in offshore windparks (BioConsult SH) - 2004

Animal and Plant Ecology exercises: Introduction to Palaeoecology, BSc-Level

Exercises in Identification of local higher plants, BSc-Level

Exercise in the Biodiversity of Terrestrial Plants: Anatomical and karyological feature analyses, MSc-Level

Botanical excursions, BSc-Level

Exercise and Seminar in Biodiversity of Terrestrial plants: Taxonomy and history of development in land plants, MSc-Level

R-Consulting for MSc students and doctoral candidates

Supervision of PhD students

Co - Chair of the seminar presentations of scientists of University Teaching with Prof. Dr. Jörg Wendorff (for young scientists)

Supervision of student research teams in research-oriented projects (FOLL)

Lecture in Vegetation and Climate History of Europe and non-European countries, BSc/MSc Level

Animal and Plant Ecology exercises: Introduction to Palaeoecology, BSc-Level

2 - week block course on Palynology, Vegetation history, Dendrochronology, MSc level (lectures, field and lab work)