Terrestrial Ecology

About us

I test theories of community ecology against global change factors using experiments, observations and syntheses. More specifically, my research is driven by two general questions: how do global change factors (e.g., climate warming and drought) affect species interactions and what are the implications of those altered (or unaltered) interactions for biodiversity maintenance and regulation of ecosystem functions? To answer these broad questions, I mainly work with soil microorganisms, soil invertebrates and plant communities from both grasslands and forests. But in general, I am interested in any system and organism where I can intersect community and global change ecology.

 

Short CV
2024-present Associate professor, University of Bern, Switzerland
2020-2024 Assistant Professor (tenure-track), University of Bern, Switzerland
2020 Post-doc (DFG Research Fellow), University of Konstanz, Germany
2018-2020 Post-doc (DFG Research fellow), Netherlands Institute of Ecology (NIOO-KNAW), Wageningen, The Netherlands
2018-2021 Co-PI, Warming Effects on Plant Soil interplay and ecosystem functioning in Wadden Sea Salt marshes (WEPSS), University of Hamburg, Germany
2016-2018 Post-doc, German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig and Leipzig University, Leipzig, Germany
2013-2016

PhD, University of Leipzig, Germany
Thesis: Plant-soil interactions in a changing world: A consumer-resource perspective