I am an Assistant Professor at the Department for Ecosystem and Landscape Dynamics (ELD) in the Institute for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Dynamics (IBED). I work across disciplines, and am seeking to strengthen the linkages between IBED and the social scientists at the Amsterdam Institute for Social Science Research (AISSR) at UvA.
Before joining UvA, I spent two years as a Postdoc at the High Meadows Environmental Institute at Princeton University, and completed my PhD as part of the Ecological Sciences and Engineering Interdisciplinary Graduate Program at Purdue University in Indiana, USA. During my Bachelor and Master-level studies, I joined Albert-Ludwigs-University in Freiburg/Br., Germany, from where I received my degree in environmental hydrology (MSc).
Prior to starting my PhD studies, I spent six years working in the strategic development of international relations and interdisciplinary water research at the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research – UFZ in Germany, and one year working in an environmental NGO in France (Alsace) coordinating non-governmental stakeholders along the Rhine River.