professional experience


since 2009 Assistant Professor, University of California Los Angeles
Dept of Atmospheric & Oceanic Sciences, Institute for Geophysics & Planetary Physics, Dept of Earth & Space Sciences

since 2008 ERC Starting Independent Investigator, Bioemco, Université Pierre et Marie Curie Paris 6, France

2004-2007 Postdoc - Marie Curie Outgoing International Fellowship,
Dept of Global Ecology, Carnegie Institution for Science, Stanford, CA
and Dept of Plant Sciences, University of Cambridge, UK

2000-2003 Research Assistant, Max-Planck-Institute for Biogeochemistry, Jena, Germany
1998-1999 Visiting Scientist, Geosciences Research Division, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, San Diego, CA


education

2003 PhD, Geosciences, Universität Hamburg / Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry, Jena, Germany.
Thesis: Processes controlling the isotopic composition of CO2 and O2 in canopy air: A theoretical analysis with some observations in a Sitka spruce plantation.
Advisors: Profs. M. Heimann and J. Lloyd, Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry, Jena, Germany

1997 Diploma, Physics, Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen, Germany.
Thesis: Simulation of the 18O/16O composition of atmospheric oxygen.
Advisor: Prof. M. Heimann, Max Planck Institute for Meteorology, Hamburg, Germany


grants & scholarships

2008 ERC Starting Independent Investigator Grant
2004-2007 EU Marie Curie Outgoing International Fellowship
2003 Travel Grant, Prof. Dr. Zerweck-/Cassella-Stiftung
1999 Max Planck Society scholarship for research at Scripps Institution of Oceanography, San Diego, CA
1998-2000 Max Planck Society scholarship for doctoral research
1997 Travel Grant, European Science Foundation
1993-1994 ERASMUS Scholarship (Physics) at Queen Mary, University of London, UK