• Tropical ecology
• Agroecology
• Landscape ecology
• Biological pest control
• Conservation biology
• Invasive alien species
• Bioacoustics
• Remote sensing of biodiversity
• Nature's contributions to people
• Nature-based solutions
• Science-policy interface

FARMS4Biodiversity – Farmer-led Agroecological Research in Malawi using Scenarios for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services

Education

09/2019 - present - PhD student | Graduate School of Life Sciences | Department Of Animal Ecology And Tropical Biology | University of Würzburg | Würzburg | Germany

               Working title: “Biological pest control along a landscape complexity gradient in smallholder agroecosystems in northern Malawi”

               Supervisors: Ingolf Steffan-Dewenter, Katja Poveda, Aaron Iverson

10/2015 - 07/2018 - Global Change Ecology (MSc) | University of Bayreuth | Bayreuth | Germany

                Master thesis: “The influence of forest cover and land use on water quality and macroinvertebrate communities in Tunkhel River catchment in
                                             northern Mongolia”

10/2011 - 10/2014 - Nature Conservation and Landscape Planning (BSc) | Anhalt University of Applied Sciences | Bernburg (Saale) | Germany

                 Bachelor thesis: “The condition of littoral vermetid crusts in the Maltese islands"

Professional experience

09/2018 - 05/2019 - Carlo Schmid Fellow in the Natural Science's sector of UNESCO | Hanoi | Vietnam

04/2018 - 06/2018 - Internship at the Helmholtz Centre for Enviornmental Research (UFZ)/German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) |
                                      Department of Community Ecology | Spatial Interaction Ecology Research Group | Halle (Saale) | Germany

03/2018 - 04/2018 - Internship at the German Federal Agency for Nature Conservation (BfN) | Department of Protected Areas | Bonn | Germany

07/2013 - 09/2013 - Internship at the lower nature conservation authority of the city of Erlangen | Erlangen | Germany

 09/2010 - 09/2011 - Anderer Dienst im Ausland (ADiA) with Children for Green New Nepal (CGNN) via weltwärts with the GIZ | Lalitpur | Nepal