Current project

ValuGaps - Towards a comprehensive valuation of natural capital in Germany: Methods and approaches to deal with limited information and uncertainty

Research Interests

• How does vegetation change under global change?

• How much changes the provision of ecosystem services?

• How can we best make use of observations and models to understand current and future patters?

• How can science be more relevant for the society?

Curriculum Vitae

• since 2022: Senior scientist at Freie Universität Berlin, Theoretical Ecology

• 2019-2022: Senior scientist at Palacký University Olomouc, Department of Ecology and Environmental Sciences. Project BESTMAP – Behavioural, ecological and socioeconomic tools for modelling argricultural policy.

• 2018-2020: Post-Doc at Czech University of Life Sciences Prague, Department of Water Resources and Environmental Modeling. Assessing consequences of climate and land-use change on vegetation and hydrology in Czech Republic.

• 2018: Post-Doc at the Institute of Botany of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Průhonice. Investigating effect of small-scale heterogeneities on climate and vegetation in the Central Bohemian Uplands (České Středohoří).

• 2012-2018: Post-Doc at Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK). Estimating ecosystem services in South-East Asia (Vietnam and Phillipines) under climate and land-use change and assessing the consequences of biodiversity tipping on socio-ecological systems in South America

• 2006-2012: PhD student at PIK. Developing a model to assess the role of climate and land-use change on the riverine carbon fluxes in Amazonia.

• 2000-2006: Studies of Biology at University Potsdam