Department of Geography 

Dissertation and graduate school program, Soil Science and Biogeography Unit, Department of Geography, University of Zurich.

Sep 2007 –Sep 2009

Master of Science (M.Sc.) in Physical Geography (Soil Science and Biogeography Unit, Department of Geography, University of Zurich)
Thesis: “Vegetation Dynamics in the Tanzanian Savanna: Evidence from Stable Isotopes in Soil Organic Matter”. Collaboration with the Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research (WSL) and the University of Morogoro, Tanzania.

Oct 2003 – Sep 2007

Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) in Geography (Faculty of Science, University of Zurich, Switzerland).
B.Sc. Thesis: “Thermal hyperspectral remote sensing”. (Remote Sensing Laboratories, Department of Geography, University of Zurich).  
Minor: Science of Management (Faculty of Economics, University of Zurich).

Exchange Semester at the EPFL (Sciences et Ingénierie d’Environnement, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne, Switzerland)

Research associate and PhD student, Soil Science and Biogeography Unit, Department of Geography, University of Zurich: Reconstructing Australian wildfire history by means of molecular markers of black carbon.

Sep 2008 –Sep 2009

Guest scientist at the Department of Soil Science, Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research (WSL).

Mar 2007 – Sep 2009

Teaching assistant for the Soil Science and Biogeography Unit, Department of Geography, University of Zurich.

Oct 2005 – Mar 2007   

Teaching assistant for the Physical Geography Division, Department of Geography, University of Zurich.