Education

10/2016 - 05/2021

Doctoral student at Freie Universität Berlin, Germany, Institute of Biology

Topic of Dissertation: "New approaches in habitat modelling of invasive mosquitoes for assessing the risk of pathogen transmissions and applications to Aedes japonicus japonicus and the West Nile virus in Germany"

09/2015 - 01/2016

GIS Akademie Berlin, Germany (Professional training course for GIS analyses and programming)

10/2008 - 05/2014

University of Greifswald, Germany

Diploma in Landscape Ecology and Nature Conservation; Main specialisations: Aquatic Ecology and Botany

Experience

10/2019 - 12/2022

Leibniz Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries (IGB) Berlin

Postdoc in the department of Community and Ecosystem Ecology and within the AQUATAG project; Investigation of blue space recreation; spatial agent based modelling of the number of bathers at water access points in Berlin and Brandenburg; Development of sustainable management strategies for the bathing tourism

02/2016 - 07/2019

Leibniz Centre for Agricultural Research (ZALF), Müncheberg, Germany

Research assistant in the working groups of "Simulation Methods and Data-driven Models" and "Biodiversity of Aquatic and Semiaquatic Landscape Features"

04/2013 - 05/2014

University of Rostock, Greifswald and Kiel, Germany

Joint research project about the Baltic Coast (BACOSA);

Field studies of macrophytes, water currents, sediment, phyto- and
zooplankton; statistical data evaluation

01/2014 - 02/2014

Smithsonians Tropical Research Institute, Panama

Scientific scuba diving, investigation of corals and marine snails, DNA analysis

02/2012 - 11/2012

Research project about the restoration of the Oderhaff with help of biomanipulation, University of Greifswald

Aquatic plant seed determination; Investigations of the mussel Dreissena polymorpha; mussel field sampling; macrophyte bed investigations with side-scan sonar

05/09/11 – 30/09/11

Institute for Applied Aquatic Ecology, Seddin, Germany

Summer macrophyte and water quality monitoring of lakes and
flowing waters

17/08/09 – 25/09/09

Senate of the environment, department of surface water monitoring, Berlin

Support of public relations work (letters, TV) and reporting about a restoration project of an urban stream