Curriculum vitae

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Education

• Diploma
  Botany, University of Bern, Dept. of Geobotany and Ecology, Switzerland. 1989. Fraktalstufen-Vergleich zwischen Vegetation und Geomorphologie am Besipiel des Gemmipasses, VS, Schweiz.
• Ph.D.  
  Botany, With High Honor, University of Bern, Dept. of Geobotany and Ecology, Switzerland. 1996. A climatically-sensitive, spatially-explicit model for alpine vegetation of Switzerland.

Research and Professional Experience

2006-present    

• Member of the directorate of the Swiss Federal Research Institute WSL, Birmensdorf, ZH, Switzerland.
• 2006-present    
• Head of the Research Unit Land Use Dynamics, Swiss Federal Research Institute WSL, Birmensdorf, ZH, Switzerland.

2001 - 2006   

• Associate Researcher and Project Leader, Department of Landscape Dynamics, Landscape Division, Swiss Federal Institute of Forest, Snow and Landscape Research (WSL), Birmensdorf, ZH, Switzerland.

1999 - 2001

• Postdoctoral Fellowship, Department of Landscape Inventories, Landscape Division, Swiss Federal Institute of Forest, Snow and Landscape Research (WSL), Birmensdorf, ZH, Switzerland.

1998 - 1999    

• Postdoctoral Fellowship, Department of Geography and Earth Resources, Lab for GIS and Remote Sensing, College of Natural Resources (CNR), Utah State University.

1997 - 1998

• Postdoctoral Fellowship, Department of Forest Resources and Ecology Center, College of Natural Resources (CNR), Utah State University.

1996 - 1997    

• "Oberassistent", Department of Geobotany and Ecology, Geobotanical Institute (SGIUB), University of Bern, Switzerland.

1993-1996

• Research Associate, Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research (WSL), Birmensdorf, ZH, Switzerland.

1990-1993

• Teaching Assistant, Department of Geobotany and Ecology, Geobotanical Institute (SGIUB), University of Bern, Switzerland.

Interests

• I am specifically interested in vegetation ecology, vegetation dynamics, and plant species diversity at various spatial and temporal scales. In the past few years, my research has focused on modeling biophysical constraints of species and community distribution along spatial (real) and theoretical gradients, and on modeling species competitive dynamics on large spatial scales. This research required the interaction of plant ecophysiology, ecological theory, biophysical ecology and involved mainly GIS-analyses, programming and statistics. Additionally, I have a strong sympathy for field floristics, species diversity theories, and ecological theories in general.

Professional Affiliations

• International Association for Landscape Ecology (IALE)
  
• International Association for Vegetation Science (IAVS)
  
• Ecological Society of America (ESA)
  
• Swiss Botanical Society (SBG)
  
• Vegetatio Helvetica (VH)

Collaborations (recent 4 yrs.)

• [Dr. B.Ammann]  [Dr. J.Bolliger]  [Dr. A.Guisan]  [Dr. T.C. Edwards, Jr.]  [Mr. W.M.Jolly]  [Dr. F.Kienast]  [Dr. H. Lischke]  [Dr. J.A.Powell]  [Dr. R.D.Ramsey]  [Dr. D.W.Roberts]  [Dr. P.E.Thornton]  [Dr. R.Washington-Allen]