• Management impact on green house gas emissions from organic soils
• Soil physical and chemical properties of peat
• Soil hydraulic and plant growth modeling
• Drought impact on carbon and water balance of Mediterranean ecosystems
• Canopy structure of open forest systems
• International project coordination

Since 2015

PostDoc: Climate Smart Agriculture on Organic Soils
Thünen-Institute of Climate-Smart Agriculture

2010 - 2014

PhD thesis: Canopy structure and the impact of drought on a Quercus suber L. woodland in Portugal
Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research - UFZ Leipzig

2004 - 2009

Diploma in Geoecology: Development of process equations for interception and evapotranspiration in water balance modelling
Technische Universität Braunschweig