Department of Geography 

Research associate (PostDoc), Soil Science and Biogeography Unit, Physical Geography Division, Department of Geography, University of Zurich: Pyrogenic carbon in a high-resolution sedimentary record

Research associate and PhD student, Soil Science and Biogeography Unit, Physical Geography Division, Department of Geography, University of Zurich: Molecular markers for black carbon

Guest scientist at Department of Oceanography, Florida State University, Tallahassee: Analysis of black carbon molecular markers by high performance liquid chromatography

Sep 2005 - Feb 2007

Undergraduate research assistant, Dept. of Soil Ecology, Bayreuth Center of Ecology and Environmental Research (BayCEER), University of Bayreuth: Stabilization of dissolved organic matter by sorption

Jul 2003 - Aug 2003

Internship at Institute for Chemistry and Biology of the Marine Environment (ICBM) – Terramare, Wilhelmshaven, Germany: Analysis of organic trace compounds in sediments from a former submarine harbour.

Dissertation, Soil Science and Biogeography Unit, Physical Geography Division, Department of Geography, University of Zürich. Thesis: Assessment of a Molecular Marker Method to Determine the Pyrogenic Carbon Component in Charcoals and Soils.

Diploma in Geoecology (Diplom Geoökologie, German equivalent to M.Sc.), University of Bayreuth, Germany.  Thesis: Stabilization of Dissolved Organic Matter by Sorption to Amorphous Al Hydroxide.

International exchange studentship (ERASMUS), studies in Environmental Science (Ciencias ambientales), University of Leon, Spain.

Undergraduate studies in Geoecology (Vordiplom Geoökologie), Technical University Carolo-Wilhelmina at Braunschweig, Germany.

UZH Forschungskredit, PostDoc project "A novel tool to trace fire-derived organic matter deposition in a high-resolution sedimentary record of the past 250 years"

UZH Forschungskredit, PhD project “Beyond quantifying fire residues in soils and sediments – the use of molecular markers to identify past fire conditions”

ERASMUS exchange program scholarship

Supervision of five BSc theses, Department of Geography, University of Zürich

Co-supervision of MSc thesis “Black Carbon im Boden: Quantifizierung und Charakterisierung der Auswaschung“, Pascal Hengartner, Department of Geography, University of Zürich

2008 – 2009

Teaching assistant in field classes “GEO 221 – Mittelland Exkursion” and “GEO 399 – Morteratsch Exkursion”, Department of Geography, University of Zürich

2006 – 2007

Teaching assistant in field classes “Einführung in die Umweltsysteme – Boden“, Department of Soil Ecology, University of Bayreuth

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Member of Deutsche Bodenkundliche Gesellschaft – DBG

Member of the Advisory Board of the Graduate School in Geography, University of Zurich