Postdoc, University of Arizona (Tucson, AZ, USA) at Laboratory of Tree Ring Research (Prof. MK Hughes) and the School of Natural Resources (Prof. SR Archer)

Development of an automated image analysis tool (“ROXAS”) for quantitative wood anatomy granted by Velux Stiftung at Institute of Integrative Biology, ETH Zurich, Switzerland

PhD thesis, Geobotanical Institute, ETH Zurich

Master thesis, Geobotanical Institute, ETH Zurich

Degree as a high school teacher in biology, ETH Zurich

Main studies in systematics and ecology, ETH Zurich

Basic studies in biology, University of Fribourg, Switzerland

Assistant within “Blockkurs Oekologie: Pflanzen- und Systemoekologie“, University of Basel, Switzerland

High school teacher in biology and chemistry (1st and 2nd grades), Paedagogische Maturitaetsschule Kreuzlingen, Switzerland

Field assistant in conservational excursions, ETH Zurich

Supervision of two semester studies in plant ecology, ETH Zurich

Assistant in courses on forest & ecosystem ecology and ecological & eco-physiological field methods, ETH Zurich

Swiss National Science Foundation SNF: postdoc

Velux Stiftung: image analysis project “ROXAS”

Alpenblumenfonds: image analysis project “ROXAS”

ETH Zurich: extension of PhD thesis

• International Association for Vegetation Science (IAVS)

• Schweizerische Botanische Gesellschaft (SBG)

• Herb-chronological methods

• Ecological & eco-physiological field methods

• Applied statistics

• Statistical software packages: JMP, Statistica, R

• Applied image analysis: Image Pro Plus, Canvas

• Programming: C++, Qt (GUI development), Visual Basic, VBA, HTML

• Databases: Endnote, Access

• GIS: Idrisi

• Ecological modeling: Stella

• Operating system: Windows, MacOS

• Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment

• Botanica Helvetica

• Central European Journal of Biology

• Ecography

• International Journal of Plant Sciences

• Oikos

• German

• English

• French

• Italian (basics)