Curriculum vitae

Education

2014 State doctoral thesis (Habilitationsschrift) submitted, titled “Root system functioning – External factors, internal heterogeneity, and methodological difficulties” (03.2014), and habilitation colloquium "Kohlenstoffallokation in Feinwurzelrespiration und -umsatz" (28.11.2014) passed to gain the venia docendi (degree obtained: Priv.-Doz.) in “Ecophysiology of plants”, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna (BOKU), Austria.

2004 - 2008 PhD study, Department of Plant Ecology and Ecosystem Research, Albrecht-von-Haller Institute of Plant Sciences, Georg-August University Göttingen, Germany.

Degree obtained: Dr. rer. nat.

Thesis title: Impact of climate change-induced drought on tree root hydraulic properties and competition belowground.

2000 - 2003 Study of biology, Georg-August University Göttingen, Germany.

Degree obtained: Diplom Biologe (Major: Botany, Minors: Genetics and Nature conservation)

Thesis title: Konkurrenz zwischen vier verschiedenen Baumarten in einem Eichenmischbestand im Mitteldeutschen Trockengebiet [In German].

1999 – 2000 Studies of biology, geography and social studies for lectureship, University of Kassel, Germany.

1998 – 2000 Pre-Diploma study of biology, and certificate study of environmental law, University of Kassel, Germany.

Work experience

2017 - dato Associate Professor, Institute for Forest Ecology, Department of Forest and Soil Science, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences Vienna (BOKU), Austria.

2016 - 2017 Assistant Professor, Institute for Forest Ecology, Department of Forest and Soil Science, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences Vienna (BOKU), Austria.

2015 -2017 Privatdozent, Institute for Forest Ecology, Department of Forest and Soil Science, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences Vienna (BOKU), Austria.

2012 - 2015 Postdoctoral Research Associate & Senior Lecturer (Universitätsassistent), Institute for Forest Ecology, Department of Forest and Soil Science, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences Vienna (BOKU), Austria.

2009 - 2012 Postdoctoral fellow, Wyler Department of Dryland Agriculture of the French Associates Institute for Agriculture and Biotechnology, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Sede Boqer Campus, Israel.

2008 - 2009 SSA Dryland Research-Fellow, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Sede Boqer Campus, Israel.

2008 - 2009 PostDoc, Albrecht-von-Haller Institute of Plant Sciences, Georg-August University Göttingen, Germany

2006 SSA Dryland Research-Fellow, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Sede Boqer Campus, Israel.

2002 - 2008 Undergraduate/Scientific Assistant/Lecturer, Albrecht-von-Haller Institute of Plant Sciences, Georg-August University Göttingen, Germany

1999 - 2000 Assistant, Hesse Broadcasting Corporation (HR), Hesse Television, Studio Kassel, Germany.