Curriculum Vitae
since 11/2008: Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research
Research associate and PhD candidate in the PIK flagship project: Price of Land-Future Global Land-use Patterns for Food, Forest and Fuels
Topic: Climate change adaptation in African agriculture
03/2008 – 08/2008: University Potsdam
Research associate in the project: Agua Salud – a collaborative ecosystem services research project in the Central Panama Canal Basin in Panama and Potsdam
10/2002 – 03/2008: Studies at University Leipzig
Geography, biology and meteorology (last two as minor subjects)
Diploma thesis
Title: "Exploration and Localization of future urban land use change in flood plains.
An application of the grid-based simulation model LuSIM", prepared at: Leibniz Institute of Ecological Urban and Regional Development (IOER)
10/2004 – 06/2006
Collaboration at the DAAD-funded project: Geoecology in developing countries - Development of an education program in Cuba and Leipzig
09/2005 – 11/2006
Internships and work as student assistant
- at the GIZ project: Disaster risk management for food security in Arequipa/Peru,
- at the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research – UFZ in Leipzig and
- at the Leibniz Institute for Regional Geography in Leipzig
03/2005 – 09/2005
Teaching assistant for physical geography (undergraduate seminars) at University Leipzig
