Research Interests

Carbon- and Nitrogen
dynamics in glacier forefields

Stable Isotopes (13C, 15N) & unstable Isotopes (14C)

Carbon cycling in Alpin ecosystems

Curriculum Vitae

since 2008 PhD student at Swiss Federal Institute of Forest, Snow & Landscape (WSL), Unit Soil Science & ETH Zürich, Dep. 
Environmental Science

Supervisors Frank Hagedorn (WSL) & Ruben Kretzschmar (ETHZ)

Thesis “Carbon- and Nitrogen dynamics on a soil chronosequence in a glacier forefield”

2005 - 2007 Research assistant, Max-Planck-Institute of Biogeochemistry

Project “NitroEurope”

2002 - 2006 Diploma in Physical Geography and Geoinformatics (Friedrich- Schiller-University Jena)



Thesis Title “Regionalisation of soil carbon on landscape scale” (GIS- based digital mapping)

2003 - 2005 Research assistant, Institute of Geography, Dep. of Soil Science, Jena

2002 Research assistant, Institute of Geography, Dep. of Earth Observation, Jena

2000 - 2002 Undergraduate in Geography (Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena)



Projects

CCES BigLink, Subgroup 1

http://www.cces.ethz.ch/projects/clench/BigLink

SFB Transregio 38, Subgroup A2

http://www.tu-cottbus.de/sfb_trr/