PostDoc, Julius Kühn-Institute - Federal Research Institute for Cultivated Plants, Germany
2024 -
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
2020 - 2022 (UFZ) / 2022 - 2024 (UvA)
Microbial root symbionts as drivers of eco-evolutionary dynamics and long-term biodiversity-ecosystem functioning relationships in plant communities
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"
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
2025
2024
5th Plant Microbiome Symposium (Amsterdam, NL): "Boosting belowground organismic interactions for improvement of agroforestry systems performance"
5th Plant Microbiome Symposium (Amsterdam, NL): "Host-specific arbuscular mycorrhizal communities are maintained across varying plant communities"
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"
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?"