About

I am a trained geographer working at the interface of remote sensing and biodiversity science. My research focuses on how spatial data can be used to monitor species composition, biodiversity, ecosystem function, and ecosystem services. I apply these approaches across natural, semi-natural, and urban environments, enabling their use in a variety of ecological contexts.

I have contributed to several international projects, including the CABO project in Canada, where I evaluated plant diversity models, and the SensGrün project in Germany, where I worked on modelling grassland composition and diversity with hyperspectral sensors across gradients of land use and grassland types.

Currently, I am an interim professor at the Geoinformation in Environmental Planning Lab at TU Berlin. My ongoing research includes projects on post-disturbance forest succession and remote sensing-based conservation monitoring to support environmental planning. Explore our current projects here: https://www.tu.berlin/en/geoinformation/research/projects/ongoing-projects

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Interests
  • Remote sensing from air and space
  • Spatial analyses of biodiversity and ecosystem functions
  • Spectral and structural variation
  • Biogeography
  • Environmental justice
  • R programming
Education
  • PhD in Physical Geography, 2018

    University of Marburg, Germany

  • Master in Physical Geography, 2014

    University of Berlin, Germany

  • BSc in Physical Geography, 2011

    University of Marburg, Germany

Experience

 
 
 
 
 
Interim professor
February 2025 – Present Germany, Berlin
 
 
 
 
 
Postdoctoral fellow
September 2023 – January 2025 Germany, Berlin

Project:

  • Evaluation of recent remote sensing-based sensors and methods for the quality analysis of NATURA 2000 grassland habitat types (SensGrün)
 
 
 
 
 
Postdoctoral fellow
August 2020 – August 2023 Canada, Sherbrooke

Project:

  • Canadian Airborne Biodiversity Observatory (CABO)
 
 
 
 
 
Postdoctoral fellow
April 2020 – May 2020 Germany

Project:

  • Environmental changes in biodiversity hotspot ecosystems of South Ecuador: RESPonse and feedback effECTs (RESPECT, Ecuador 2.0)
 
 
 
 
 
Postdoctoral fellow
November 2018 – November 2019 Germany

Project:

  • Bridging postdoc scholarship
 
 
 
 
 
PhD student
January 2014 – August 2018 Germany

Project:

  • Remote sensing as surrogate for phylodiversity and functional processes along land use and elevation gradients (Ecuador 1.0)

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