- Ecological role of amphibians on ecosystem structure and functioning
- Control of Biodiversity by trophic interactions
- Amphibian mediated ecosystem linkages, aquatic terrestrial coupling.
- Speciation processes in the Fire Salamander (Salamandra salamandra) and the influence of shifts in habitat and life history traits on ecosystems
- Conservation Biology on species and ecosystem level

d.o.b.: 29.06.1984 in Cologne (Germany)
2003 Abitur at the Dreikönigsgymnasium in Köln
2003-2008 University of Cologne, Study of Biology
since 2005 environmental educator for children and adults at Cologne Zoo University of Cologne
2008 Graduate Assistant in a BfG (Bundesanstalt für Gewässerkunde) financed research project on plankton diversity
2008-2010 University of Bielefeld (Germany), research assistant
since 2010 Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research - UFZ, Magdeburg (Germany), PhD student. PhD project in cooperation with the University of Bielefeld

Title of Diploma Thesis:

Consumption of the Asian clam (Corbicula fluminea) by the Chinese Mitten Crab (Eriocheir sinensis) in the lower River Rhine

Title of PhD Thesis:

On the influence of Fire salamander (Salamandra salamandra) larvae on community structure and function in small aquatic systems

Holder of a Deutsche Bundesstiftung Umwelt (DBU) scholarship since 2010

Linking the evolution of habitat choice to ecosystem functioning: Direct and indirect effects of pond-breeding fire salamanders on the aquatic-terrestrial coupling (in preparation)

- Tagung der deutschen Gesellschaft für Limnologie (DGL) in Koblenz 2008 (Poster)
- Methods of herpetology in Bonn 2008
- Tagung der deutschen Gesellschaft für Limnologie (DGL) in Koblenz 2008 (Talk)