Curriculum Vitae

Since 2026 Professor of Soil Biology at University of Hohenheim, Insitute of Soil Science and Land Evaluation, Soil Biology 

2025 Guest Researcher at Freie Universität Berlin, Insitute of Biology, Ecology of Plants

2024 Research exchange at Cornell University (group of Johannes Lehmann, School of Integrative Plant Science)

  Feodor-Lynen Fellowship for Experienced Researchers

2021 – 2024 Research Associate at Freie Universität Berlin, Insitute of Biology, Ecology of Plants

Own DFG (German Research Foundation) project within the priority program SoilSystems: “The significance of saprobic fungi for energy and matter turnover  under varying substrate conditions - from individuals to soils”

2017 – 2021 Research Associate at Freie Universität Berlin, Insitute of Biology, Ecology of Plants

Project description: “Investigating stoichiometry as an ecological trait for soil fungi”

2014 – 2017 Research Associate at Freie Universität Berlin, Insitute of Biology, Ecology of Plants

DFG project within the research unit PAK 823-825: “Effects of rising nutrient depositions to mycorrhizal fungi and other soil microbiota in tropical soils”

2010 – 2014 Research Associate (PhD), Freie Universität Berlin, Insitute of Biology, Ecology of Plants

DFG Project within the research unit FOR 816: “Root and mycorrhizal responses to nutrient additions in a tropical mountain forest and in pastures after forest conversion”

Dissertation topic: “Responses of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi to nutrient additions in a tropical montane forest of Southern Ecuador”; PhD degree (Dr. rer. nat.) obtained in 04/2015