Education
2004 - 2006: Post-doc in Ecosystem Ecology, Department
of Biology, Syracuse University,
Supervisor: Douglas
A. Frank
2003: Ph.D. Degree in Forest Ecology, WSL,
ETH Zurich
Thesis: Successional patterns and processes following land use change
in subalpine forests of the Central European Alps.
Supervisor: Martin Schütz,
Harald Bugmann
2000: Masters Degree in Forestry,
School of Forest Resources and Environmental Science, Michigan Technological
University, Houghton, USA
Thesis: Vegetation - environment relationships within small tributary
watersheds of an old-growth forest in Upper Michigan, USA.
Supervisor: Kurt
S. Pregitzer, Margaret
R. Gale, Martin
F. Jurgensen, Casey F. Huckins
1999: Masters Degree in Ecology and Systematics, ETH
Zurich, Switzerland
Thesis: Raum-Zeit-Modell der Vegetationsentwicklung auf zwei subalpinen
Kleinweiden im Schweizerischen Nationalpark.
Supervisor: Martin Schütz, Bertil
O. Kruesi
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Professional experience
09/2009 - present: Adjunct Associate Professor and member of the graduate faculty, School of Forest Resources and Environmental Science, Michigan Tech, USA
09/2008 - present: Lecturer, Department of Environmental Sciences, ETH Zürich, Switzerland
10/2006 - 05 / 2009: Adjunct Assistant Professor, School of Forest Resources and Environmental Science, Michigan Tech, USA
07/2006 - present: Head of Animal Ecology research group within research unit Community Ecology, WSL, Switzerland
03/2006 - 06/2006: Research scientist, WSL, Switzerland
03/2004 - 01/2006: Research associate, Departement of Biology, Syracuse University, USA
11/2000 - 02/2004: Research scientist, WSL, Switzerland
05/2000 - 10/2000: Research scientist, School of Forest Resources and Environmental Science, Michigan Tech, USA
1996 - 1999: Graduate research assistant ETH Zurich, Switzerland
1994 - 1999: Part time assistant and secretary at UBS Zurich, Switzerland
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Collaborations
- Dr. T. Michael Anderson, University of Groningen, Netherlands and Wake Forest University, NC, USA
- Prof. Douglas
A. Frank, Syracuse University, Department of Biology, Syracuse
NY, USA
- Prof. Pekka Niemelä, University of Joensuu, Faculty of Forestry,
Joensuu, Finland
- Prof. Leena
Finér, Dr. Seppo Neuvonen, Dr. Timo Domisch, Jouni Kilpeläinen,
Finnish Forest Research Institute (METLA), Joensuu Research Centre,
Joensuu, Finland
- Prof.
Lotta Sundström, University of Helsinki, Department of
Biological & Environmental Sciences, Helsinki, Finland
- Dr.
Debbie Page-Dumroese, USDA Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research
Station, Forestry Science Lab, Moscow ID, USA
- Dr. Matt Busse, USDA Forest Service, Pacific Southwest Research Station, Silviculture Lab, Redding, CA, USA
- Dr. Carl Trettin,
USDA Forest Service, Centre for Forested Wetland Research, Charleston
SC, USA
- Prof. Martin
Jurgensen, Prof.
Andrew Storer, Mike Hyslop, Michigan Technological University, School of Forestry
and Wood Products, Houghton MI, USA
- Prof. Mizue Ohashi, University of Hyogo, Japan
- Dr. Flurin Filli, Swiss National Park, Zernez, Switzerland
- Dr. Beat Frey, WSL, Switzerland
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Awards and Fellowships
- Best Paper Award, Soil Science Society of America Annual Meeting
2006, Indianapolis IN, USA
- Best Paper Award, Soil Science Society of America Annual Meeting
2005, Salt Lake City UT, USA
- Best Paper Award, Soil Science Society of America Annual Meeting
2004, Seattle WA, USA
- Prospective researcher fellowship, Swiss National Science Foundation,
2004 and 2005
- Swiss Federal Instiute of Technology Zurich (ETH) fellowship, 2001
- 2003
- Michigan Technological University Graduate School fellowship, 1999
– 2000
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Main external funding sources
- Swiss National Science Foundation
- Swiss Federal Office for the Environment
- Finnish Academy of Sciences
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- Trophic interactions in grassland ecosystems (SNF)
- Effect of Termites on ecosystem properties in Serengeti National Park
- Effect of wild boars on forest ecosystem processes
- Effect of red deer and ants on the seed bank of subalpine grassland
- Mound building ants in North America
- Ant-aphid-tree interactions in boreal forests: cascading effects on
carbon and nitrogen fluxes and biodiversity (in Finland)
- Erica carnea and forest soil processes: a correlation
- Decomposition rates in subalpine ecosystems
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