Curriculum Vitae

since 2007    Teacher for Biology, Geography and Theatre at the Elisabethschule Marburg, Secondary School. Exam in Theatre (Abschlussprüfung für erweiterte Studien der Lehrer im Fach "Darstellendes Spiel").

 

2007           Teacher for Biology, Geography and Theatre at the Liebigschule Giessen, Secondary School.

 

2005-2007   Traineeship for secondary schools (Referendariat) at the Edertalschule Frankenberg. Exam in Lectureship for secondary schools ("2. Staatsexamen für das Lehramt an Gymnasien").

2005            Offer of the Assistant-professorship, rejected (Berufung auf die Stelle einer Juniorprofessur für "Biodiversitätsdynamik terrestrischer Ökosysteme " im Institut für Ökologie an der Technischen Universität Berlin; Rufablehnung Juni 2005).

2005           Ph.D.-thesis at the Department of Animal Ecology, Justus Liebig University Giessen, Germany (Carabids in agricultural landscapes: diversity and function in relation to spatio-temporal factors. Laufkäfer in Agrarlandschaften: Diversität und Funktion in Abhängigkeit von räumlichen und zeitlichen Faktoren). Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Volkmar Wolters.

2000- 2005  Associate at the Department of Animal Ecology, Justus-Liebig-University-Giessen. Projects: 'Land-use Options for Peripheral Regions' Sonderforschungsbereich 299 of the DFG; Biodiversity and landscape complexity in agricultural landscapes under global change (BIOPLEX), BMBF. Responsibilities: scientific co-ordination, teaching, planning and realisation of field work, supervision of diploma- theses, financial planning, preparation of project applications, organisation of project meetings.

2003           Exam in Lectureship for secondary schools ("1. Staatsexamen für das Lehramt an Gymnasien"; subjects biology and geography) at the Justus Liebig University Giessen, Germany.

2000           Diploma thesis: "Struktur und Diversitaet von Carabidengemeinschaften in einer Grünlandchronosequenz", Department of Animal Ecology, University of Giessen, Germany. Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Volkmar Wolters.

1996-2003   Student in lectureship for secondary schools (subjects biology and geography) and student in Biology at the Justus-Liebig-University of Giessen, Germany.

1993-1996   Student in Biology and in Geography ("Vordiplom" in biology and "Vordiplom" in Geography).

Practical training

1998           Internship at Kenya Wildlife Service (KWS), Kenya: Cooperation in the Rhino- monitoring program; internal paper: "Influence of the surrounding habitat on the population structure and browsing groups of the Black Rhinoceros at Nairobi and Aberdares National Parks.

1997           Internship at the Center for Nature Conservation Hesse -Germany: realization of the computer-exhibition "Ökobit".

1995           Internship at the Max -Planck Institute of Limnology (stream  ecology group based in Schlitz, Hesse, Germany): ecological and biometrical analyses in soil streams. 

Reviews

I have reviewed manuscripts submitted to the ISI-rated scientific journals

-          Molecular Ecology

-          European Journal of Entomology

-   Ecological Research