Professional Experience
2018-pres. |
Postdoctoral appointment Coordination of the Global Gridded Crop Model Inter- comparison project (GGCMI) at NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, NY, funded through the Department of Computer Science, University of Chicago, IL |
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2018-pres. |
Editor for the journal Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems |
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2017-pres. |
Scientific coordination of the ISIMIP agriculture sector at Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK), Germany |
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2015-pres. |
Reviewing activity for Nature Climate Change, Nature Sustainability, Earth System Dynamics, Earth’s Future, International Foundation for Science (IFS), and others |
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2015-pres. |
Supervision and teaching currently supervising a PhD candidate at Centre for Environmental and Sustainability Research, Portugal; occasional lectures at Humboldt University of Berlin and University of Potsdam |
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2015 |
Research exchange with Johan Rockström at Stockholm Resilience Institute (SRI), Stockholm, Sweden |
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2010-2011 | Research exchange with Rama Nemani at NASA Ames Research Center, Mountain View, CA, USA |
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2010 | Internship at the Ecological Forecasting Lab ECOCAST NASA Ames Research Center, Mountain View, CA, USA |
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2007-2010 | Research Assistant to Prof. W. Endlicher Vegetation and Climatology Department, Humboldt Universität zu Berlin, Germany |
Education
2017 |
Graduation (Ph.D., summa cum laude), in Geography, Humboldt Universität zu Berlin Title: "Assessing opportunities to increase global food production within the safe operating space for human freshwater use" (link) |
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2011-2017 |
Ph.D. Candidate, Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK), Germany Research Domain 1: Earth System Analysis |
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2012 | Summer School at CMCC, Alghero, Italy Topic: ”Modeling Climate Change Impacts on Water and Crops at Different Scales” |
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2011 | Graduation (Diplom, with distinction) in Geography, Humboldt Universität zu Berlin Topic: "A Continental-Scale Estimate of Ecosystem Respiration Using MODIS Land Surface Temperature and Enhanced Vegetation Index" |
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2006-2007 | Stay abroad, University of Innsbruck, Austria (ERASMUS) | |||||||
2004-2011 | Studies of Geography, Humboldt Universität zu Berlin, Germany Minors: Mathematics and Meteorology |