Profile

Professional career

• 10/2015 - 02/2016
  Research assistant in der Institute of Systematic Botany and Functional Biodiversity Research, University of Leipzig. Research projekt: Lebendige Luppe - Revitalisation of the Luppe floodplain forest system in Leipzig
• 03/2016 - 03/2021
  Research assistant in der Institute of Systematic Botany and Functional Biodiversity Research, University of Leipzig. Research projekt: Wilde Mulde - Revitalisation of a wild river landscape in Central Germany
• since 10/2015
  Guest scientist at the department Nature Conservation at the Helmholz Centre for Environmental Research, UFZ, Leipzig
• since 04/2021
  Research assistant in der Institute of Systematic Botany and Functional Biodiversity Research, University of Leipzig.

Education

• 10/2010 - 07/2013
  Bachelor of Science Environmental Mnagement, Justus Liebig University Gießen. Bachelor Thesis: Fruit and seed production of Empetrum hermaphroditum along a snow cover gradientFrucht- und Samenproduktion von Empetrum hermaphroditum an Standorten unterschiedlicher Schneedeckung
• 09/2013 - 09/2015
  Master of Science Geoecology, University Umeå. Master Thesis: The role of adjacent vegetation on the recovery of riparian flora - Effect of upstream and upland vascular vegetation after stream restoration in a boreal catchment

• Understanding oak (Quercus robur) establishment, regeneration, and growth in the floodplain forest and its biotic and abiotic drivers in a changing system due to climate change and flooding to improve management strategies.
• Analysing the tree shoot growth of about 100 species in the ARBOfun (Großpösna) over the drought years 2018-2020 and its consecutive growth reduction and legacy effects.