Research experience and projects

2024 - ongoing: Postdoc
Temple University, Philadelphia, USA
Center for Biodiversity (PI: Blair Hedges)
Project: Forecasting functional biodiversity change with satellite remote sensing and modeling (NSF)

2019 - 2023: Postdoc
Aarhus University, Denmark
Section for Ecoinformatics and Biodiversity, Plant Evolution and Biodiversity (PI: Wolf Eiserhardt)
Project: TropiToL - Explaining the biological hyperdiversity of Tropical rainforests using the Tree of Life (Villum Fonden)

2018 - 2019: Research assistant
Natural History Museum Berlin, Herpetology
Data analysis for amphibian monitoring project in the Nimba Mountains, Guinea

2014 – 2018: Doctoral candidate
Humboldt Universität zu Berlin | Natural History Museum Berlin
Project: Combining paleontological and neontological data to assess the extinction risk of amphibians

2012 - 2013: Research assistent Natural History Museum Berlin, Paleoecology
Project: Geographic range dynamics of marine invertebrates

2008: Field work assistant
Humboldt Universität zu Berlin, Behavioural Physiology
Navigation mechanisms of Cataglyphis fortis in Tunisia

Education

2014 – 2018: Doctoral candidate
Humboldt Universität zu Berlin | Natural History Museum Berlin
Thesis title: Combining paleontological and neontological data to assess the extinction risk of amphibians
Degree: Dr. rer. nat. (summa cum laude)

2008 – 2011: Master student
Humboldt Universität zu Berlin
MSc Organismic Biology and Evolution
Degree: Master of Science (1.3, very good)

2005 – 2008: Bachelor student
Humboldt Universität zu Berlin
BSc Biology
Degree: Bachelor of Science (2.3, good)

Languages

• German (first language)
• English (business fluent)
• French (basic knowledge)
• Danish (basic knowledge)

Grants

• MfN Innovationsfond (Natural History Museum Berlin Berlin, institute internal grant): Linking climate trends with the amphibian fossil record
• Fellow Program Open Science by Wikimedia and Stifterverband: Opening up science
• Travel Grant Progressive Palaeontology Conference 2016
• Elsa Neumann Fellowship of the state of Berlin: A paleontological-zoological analysis of the influence of traits on the extinction risk of amphibians

Commitee work

2014 - 2017: Elected member of the representation of doctoral researchers at Natural History Museum Berlin
2007 - 2011: Student council at the Humboldt University of Berlin

Software and programming

• LaTeX
  
• Inkscape, GIMP, Photoshop (basics)
  
• QGIS, BEAST, Tracer, Mesquite, GPlates, Git(Hub)
  
• BASH for SLURM managed clusters
  
• R (12+ years experience. Spatial and phylogenetic data. Data analysis, statistics, visualization, Markdown, structural equation models, gradient boosting machines and other machine learning, trait evolution models; e.g. Mk-models, state-dependent speciation and extinction models)
  
• Java Script (basics to get by in Google Earth Engine)
  
• Python (basics)

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