Undergraduate Studies

1998-2004 Diploma studies in Physics at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich, Germany
2000-2001 ERASMUS Exchange ETH Lausanne, Switzerland
2001 Study Abroad Exchange University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
2003-2004 Diploma thesis at the Max-Planck-Institute for Physics,

Research in Theoretical High Energy Physics
2004 Diploma examination, Major: Physics; Minors: Astronomy, Biophysics

Postgraduate Education

2004-2005 Ph. D. at the Max-Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry, Jena, Germany

Research Topic: "The Production of Dimethylsulphide in Marine Ecosystems and its Interaction with Climate"
2005-2008 Continuation of Ph. D. at the University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK
2008 Awarded Ph.D. from the University of East Anglia

Professional Experience

2008 Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of East Anglia
2008-2010 Postdoctoral Researcher in the Environmental Physics Group, ETH Zuerich, Switzerland
2010 - present
 Senior researcher in the Environmental Physics Group, ETH Zuerich

Field Experience

2005 DMS measurements during a mesocosm experiment in Bergen, Norway

Schools and Courses

2005 European Research Course on Atmospheres (ERCA), Grenoble, France
2005 SOLAS Summer School in Cargese, Corsica, France
2006 QUEST Earth System Science Summer School (QUEST-ES4) in Bristol, UK
2010 Advanced School on Complexity, Adaptation and Emergence in Marine Ecosystems, Trieste, Italy
2011 Greencycles II Summer School, Peyresq, France (Convener)

Teaching Experience

Organiser of PhD courses and summer schools:

  • Co-Convener of the Greencycles II Summer School, Peyresq, France (May 2011)
  • Co-Organiser of the Greencycles II Training Workshop 1 'Statistical analysis of environmental data', ETH Zuerich, Switzerland (July 2011)

Lecturer & Course coordinator for MSc/BSc courses at ETH:

  • MSc Course 'Global Biogeochemical Cycles and Climate' (Lecturer; 2009 - 2010, 2013 - present)
  • BSc Course 'Systems Analysis I & II' (Lecturer; 2010 - 2012)
  • Bachelorseminar 'Biogeochemistry' (Expert/Tutor; 2010 - 2011)
  • MSc Course 'Biogeochemical Modelling of Sediments, Lakes and Oceans' (Course development & Lecturer; 2014 - present)
  • BSc Course ' Mathematics III: Systems Analysis' (Lecturer; 2017 - present)

Supervision & mentoring

Supervision of PhD, MSc and BSc projects

  • Mentor for postdoctoral project of Dr. Chantal Swan (2012 - 2016)
  • Mentor for postdoctoral project of Dr. Fabio Benedetti (2018 - 2019)
  • Co-Advisor for PhD project of Dr. Claudine Hauri (2010-2012)
  • Co-Advisor for PhD project of Dr. Charlotte Laufkoetter (2010 - 2014)
  • Co-Advisor for PhD project of Dr. Colleen O'Brien (2010 - 2015)
  • Co-Advisor for PhD project of Simon Yang (2015 - 2016)
  • Co-Advisor for PhD project of Damiano Righetti (2014 - 2018)
  • Co-Advisor for PhD project of Cara Nissen (2014 - 2018)
  • Co-Advisor for PhD project of Urs Hofmann Elizondo (2018 - 2022)
  • Co-Advisor for MSc project of Philipp Brun (2012 - 2013)
  • Co-Advisor for MSc project of Julia Brandenberg (2014 - 2015)
  • Advisor for MSc project of Urs Hofmann Elizondo (2017 - 2018)
  • Advisor for MSc project of Luana Krebs (2018)
  • Advisor for MSc project of Kevin Lang (2018)
  • Advisor for BSc project of Gianna Ferrari (2017)
  • External Advisor for PhD project of Dr. Forough Fendereski, Gorgan University, Iran (2010 - 2013)
  • External Advisor for PhD project of Dr. Fabio Benedetti, Observatoire de Villefranche, France (2014 - 2016)
  • Mentor for PhD project of Pablo Rodriguez Ros, Institute de Ciencies del Mar, Spain (2017 - 2018)

Professional activity

International research projects

  • Project coordinator for the MARine Ecosystem DATa (MAREDAT) project for the collection of global marine plankton abundance and biomass data (2009- 2014)
  • Member of the scientific steering committee/working group leader of the MARine Ecosystem Model Intercomparison Project (MAREMIP) 2008-2014

Conferences & Workshops

  • Session Co-Chair ASLO Summer Meeting, Lake Biwa, Japan, 2012
  • Session Co-Chair, EGU General Assembly, Vienna, Austria, 2013
  • Session Co-Chair, IMBER Open Science Conference, Bergen, Norway, 2014
  • Session Co-Chair, Ocean Sciences Meeting, Honolulu, Hawaii, 2014
  • Co-Organiser of the Greencycles II Mini-Conference 'Impacts of climate change on marine ecosystems', Paris, France, 2013
  • Co-Organiser of the EuroMarine foresight workshop 'PlankDiv: Impacts of climate change on the distribution of plankton functional and phylogenetic diversity', Villefranche-sur-mer, France, 2016
  • Co-Organiser of the EuroMarine working group 'PlankBios: Present and future plankton biogeography and the link between community structure, marine ecosystem functioing and ecosystem service provision', San Sebastian, Spain, 2017

Reviews & Journals

  • Reviewer for international scientific journals: Biogeosciences, Geophysical Research Letters, Journal of Plankton Research, Progress in Oceanography, Science, Nature, Global Biogeochemical Cycles, Marine Ecology Progress Series
  • Reviewer of book chapters: AGU books
  • Grant reviewer for NERC, INSU and others
  • Guest editor for the 2013 Biogeosciences special issue on 'Improving constraints on biospheric feedbacks in Earth system models (Greencycles)'
  • Author's contact for the 2013 Earth System Science Data Special Issue 'MAREDAT - Towards a world atlas of marine plankton functional type'
  • Review editor for Frontiers in Marine Science: Global Change and the Future Ocean

Funded Proposals

  • EUR-OCEANS small grant for 5 months of postdoctoral fellowship (£18,482; 2008)
  • EUR-OCEANS workshop grant 'Impacts of climate change on marine ecosystems' (15kEuro; 2012)
  • ETH Grant for 3-year PhD studentship (183kCHFr; 2014-2016)
  • SNF research grant for 1 PhD studentship, 1 Postdoc fellowship (281kCHFr; 2014 - 2017)
  • EuroMarine foresight workshop grant 'PlankDiv: Impacts of climate change on the distribution of plankton functional and phylogenetic diversity' (7.5kEuro; 2015)
    • EuroMarine working group grant 'PlankBioS: Present and future plankton biogeography and the link between community structure, marine ecosystem functioning and ecosystem service provision' (7.5 kEuro; 2016)