Curriculum Vitae
Education
Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK), Potsdam, Germany
September 2005 - December 2009
GREENCYCLES Early stage researcher (ESR) until August 2008, PhD student at the University of Potsdam (Department of Geoecology)
Supervisors: Dr. Alberte Bondeau, Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Cramer
Mentors: Dr. Katrin Vohland, Dr. Ben Poulter
Thesis title: ‘Effect of agricultural biomass burning on the global carbon cycle: Simulations with the LPJmL Dynamic Global Vegetation Model’
(The GREENCYCLES project is a Marie Curie Research Training Network supported by the European Commission's Sixth Framework Programme, project reference number: MRTN-CT-2004-512464)
Institute for Limnology, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Mondsee, Austria
April 2004 – August 2005: Research Assistant
University of Salzburg, Salzburg, Austria
March 2004 Grade obtained: ‘Magistra rerum naturalium’ (equivalent to MSc Biology)
2002–2004: Diploma thesis: ‘Phenotypic and genetic characterisation of the toxic cyanobacterium Planktothrix spp.’ Austrian Science Funds project P15709 ‘Linking cyanotoxin production to genetic diversity’ under the supervision of Dr. R. Kurmayer, Institute for Limnology, Austrian Academy of Sciences
1999–2002: Study of Biology/Botany, elective courses in Computer Science
1997–1999: Study of general Biology
Courses and Summer Schools
Jan - Feb 2006: European Research Course on Atmospheres (ERCA), Grenoble, France
Sep 2006: Earth Systems Science Summer School (QUEST ES4), Bristol, UK
Apr 2007: METIER Spring School, Remote Sensing of the Land Surface, Leicester, UK
Oct 2007: GREENCYCLES Workshop on Remote Sensing, Thales Alenia Space, Cannes, France
Conferences
European Geosciences Union (EGU) General Assembly 2007, Vienna, Austria
European Geosciences Union (EGU) General Assembly 2008, Vienna, Austria
American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting 2008, San Francisco, US
METIER Final Conference, Nov 2009, Brussels, Belgium
