Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research WSL
Function
Postdoc
Contact
Eidg. Forschungsanstalt WSL
Zürcherstrasse 111
8903 Birmensdorf
Site
WSL Birmensdorf Bi MG C 36
I’m a quantitative ecologist who enjoys exploring how ecosystems respond to change. My work has taken me from coral reefs on the Great Barrier Reef (PhD, James Cook University) to fisheries management in Tasmania (Postdoc, IMAS), to urban biodiversity in Switzerland (Postdoc, Eawag), and now to forests and soils at WSL.
Whether underwater or in the forest, I’m fascinated by how species and ecosystems cope with environmental shifts — from warming oceans and habitat loss to urbanisation and a changing climate — and how data and models can help us understand and protect them.
Across these diverse projects, my goal has been to connect robust science with practical solutions for conservation and land management.
In the SMURF project (see link below), I examine the principal drivers of soil moisture patterns in Swiss forests. The main goal of the project is to develop high-resolution soil moisture maps accounting for local-scale variations in topography and vegetation structure drawing on recent advances in radiative transfer modelling. We hope our research will inform a wide range of applications including, first and foremost, forest management, ground-truthing of satellite data on soil moisture and landslide risk modelling.
