Research Positions
PostDoc, Julius Kühn-Institute - Federal Research Institute for Cultivated Plants, Germany
- Research associate in the KlimAF (KlimA Heal) project funded by the BMEL
- Evaluation of potential performance increase of agroforestry systems through optimization of organismic interactions with focus on mycorrhizal fungi
Education
PhD, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research - UFZ, Halle Germany | University of Amsterdam, Netherlands
- Microbial root symbionts as drivers of eco-evolutionary dynamics and long-term biodiversity-ecosystem functioning relationships in plant communities
- 2020 - 2022 (UFZ) / 2022 - (UvA)
Master of Science, University of Leipzig, Germany
- 2017-2019: Biology (Focus: Diversity and Evolution of Plants)
- Thesis: "What effects does an insect decline have on the microbiome of oak clone DF159?"
Bachelor of Science, Technische Universität Dresden, Germany
- 2013-2017: Biology
- Thesis: "Bier nach Hildegard von Bingen - ein Versuch Bier nach historischen Rezepten zu brauchen"
Teaching
- M.Sc. Course "Mycorrhizal Symbioses", University of Leipzig
- 2021 & 2022: organisation and realization of wet lab training on amplicon next generation sequencing (ITS, 16S, SSU); Introduction to bioinformatics and statistics in R; supervision of group work and final presentations
Conferences
Talks
- 2023 iMMM (Cambridge, UK): "Soil history rather than plant history determines arbuscular mycorrhizal community assembly"
- 2023 NWO Life (Egmond an Zee, NL): "Does grassland diversity protect soil fungi from recurrent summer droughts?"
- 2022 Frontiers in experimental research on changing environments (Leipzig, D): "Plant diversity and soil history effects on community assembly of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi"
Posters
- 2023 Global Soil Biodiversity Conference (Dublin, IR): " Plant diversity and soil history effects on community assembly of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi"
- 2022 ISME (Lausanne, CH): "Plant diversity and soil history effects on community assembly of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi"
- 2022 Frontiers in experimental research on changing environments (Leipzig, D): "What effects does an insect decline have on the microbiome of the oak clone DF159?"
- 2021 GfÖ Annual Meeting (online, D): "Effects of prolonged summer drought periods on arbuscular mycorrhizal and total fungal communities in grasslands along a plant diversity gradient "
- 2019 GfÖ Annual Meeting (Münster, D): "What effects does an insect decline have on the microbiome of the oak clone DF159?"
