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Organisational unit:	Landscape Dynamics Dendroecology
Phone:	+41 44 7392 316
Fax:	+41 44 7392 215
Room:	Bi HL C 30
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Address:	Swiss Federal Research Institute WSL Zürcherstrasse 111 8903 Birmensdorf

Anatomy / Ecophysiology: metrics of water-conducting cells and carbohydrate storage tissue in forbs and trees in response to changing environments, lignification patterns, water status of plants
Climate - forest interactions: effect of forest structure on below-canopy micro-climate and influence of micro-climate on forest regeneration
Herb-chronology: analysis of annual rings in perennial forbs
Plant ecology: phenotypic plasticity, life-history changes, growth and structural responses in perennial forbs to changing environments

ROXAS: Tool for the quantitative analysis of xylem anatomy in cross-sections and cores of trees (angiosperms and conifers), shrubs and herbs.

2007	Degree as a high school teacher in biology, ETH Zurich
2005	PhD thesis, Geobotanical Institute, ETH Zurich
2001	Master thesis, Geobotanical Institute, ETH Zurich

Since 2013	Scientific staff member at Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research WSL (Birmensdorf, Switzerland)
2010 - 2013	Postdoc at Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research WSL (Birmensdorf, Switzerland)
2009 - 2010	Project management at Swiss Academy of Technical Sciences SATW (Zurich, Switzerland)
2007 - 2008	Postdoc at Laboratory of Tree-Ring Research / School of Natural Ressources, University of Arizona (Tucson, AZ, USA)
2006 - 2007	Image analysis project «ROXAS», funded by the Velux Stiftung (ETH Zurich, Switzerland)
2005 - 2006	High school teaching in Biology and Chemistry at Paedagogische Maturitaetsschule (Kreuzlingen, Switzerland)