About me

Science and Education

From January 2025
Tenure-Track Assistant Professor for Resilient Landscapes, Wildlife Ecology and Conservation group, Department of Environmental Sciences, Wageningen University and Research

Since May 2023
Associate Editor Conservation Letters

March 2023 – December 2024
Postdoc in the Plant Ecology Group (Prof. Markus Fischer) at the Institute of Plant Science of the University of Bern

Synthesis Workpackage of the project “The role of nature for human well-being in the Kilimanjaro Social-Ecological System”.

January 2022 – February 2023
Postdoc in the Earth System Science Group (Prof. Maria J. Santos) at the Department of Geography of the University of Zurich

Lead of the project “Agroforest Synthesis”

May 2021 – May 2023
Editor PLOS Sustainability and Transformation (Conservation section)

March 2021 – June 2022
Postdoc in Land System Science at the Wyss Academy for Nature at the University of Bern

August 2016 – February 2021
PhD Student in the transdisciplinary research project Diversity Turn in Land Use Science at the University of Goettingen. Research group Biodiversity, Macroecology & Biogeography.

Main supervisor: Prof Holger Kreft;
Co-supervisors: Prof Ingo Grass, Prof Dirk Hölscher and Prof Teja Tscharntke

Thesis “Smallholder vanilla agroforestry in Madagascar: biodiversity, ecosystem services and yields in a land-use context”.
Marked Summa cum laude (with the greatest honours; highest grade).

October 2015 – September 2016
MSc in Ecology, Evolution and Conservation at Imperial College London. Overall mark: 75%, First-class honours (top 10%).

September 2011 – June 2014
BSc in Geography, Environmental Sciences and Biology at the University of Zurich and at ETH Zurich. Overall mark: 5.2/6 (top 20%)