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Research Interests
- Systemic solutions for sustainable urban development
- Urban ecosystem services and green infrastructure
- Urban human-nature interactions
- Urban agriculture and edible cities
- Urban deep ecology
Professional Experience
- Since 2015
Postdoc researcher, Leibniz Institute of Ecological Urban and Regional Development (IOER), Dresden, Germany
- 06/2010–
06/2015 Researcher at the Research Group Urban and Landscape Ecology, University Salzburg, Austria
Education
- 01/2012–
01/2015 Doctoral studies. University Salzburg, Department Geography and Geology, Austria & Bavarian Academy for Nature Protection and Rural Conservation (ANL), Laufen, Germany; Dissertation topic: "Efficient urban soil sealing management. A system application for analyzing and assessing responses, strategies and targets towards sustainable development." Funded by the German Environmental Foundation (DBU)
(www.dbu.de/stipendien_20011/149_db.html)
Degree: Dr. rer. nat;- 10/2007–
03/2010 Master programme: Landscape, Regional and Urban Management. University Salzburg, Austria (specialization: international development, regional management and city marketing)
Degree: Master of science, MSc- 10/2003–
02/2007 Bachelor programme: Agricultural Science. University Hohenheim, Germany (specification: economics and social sciences of agriculture)
Degree: Bachelor of science, BSc
Projects
Future Town Dresden, funded by the German Federal Ministry for Education and Research (BMBF), (Duration: 2019-2021)
meinGrün - Information and navigation to urban green spaces in cities, funded by German Federal Ministry of Transport and Digital Infrastructure (BMVI), (Duration: 2018-2021)
Projects funded by the German Research Foundation DFG (as applicant):
Edible Cities - Assessing urban greening strategies as systemic solutions for social challenges of urbanization. Development of a conceptual evaluation framework and experimenting with using the example of edible cities in Germany. (research grant, AR 1121/1-1) (Duration: 2017-2019)
IOER postdoc-project:
Urban human-environmental interactions. Efficient strategies for building sustainable cities of tomorrow. (Duration: 2015-2019)
Projects before IOER (PDF)
Memberships
Since 2018: Review Editor for Land Use Dynamics, Frontiers in Environmental Science
Board member of the China Centre for Urban Ecology (CCUE)
Board member of the Society for Urban Ecology (SURE)
Awards and scholarships
- 10/2013
Student Award by the German Section of the International Association of Landscapes Ecology (IALE-D) for best thesis in the field of landscape ecology
- 01/2012–
12/2014 Doctoral scholarship, Federal Foundation for the Environment (DBU)
- 08/2011
Fellowship for a stay abroad (China), University Salzburg
- 08/2005
Fellowship for a stay abroad (New Zealand), DAAD
Teaching
- 2017, 2018
Visiting Professor, teaching in the course "Multi-criteria environmental assessment", Master program "Integrated Environmental Impact Assessment", University Bucharest, Romania
- 2018
Master course, project study "Edible city: challenges and chances of implementation on the example of Dresden", Technical Dresden, Germany
- Summer term
2017 "Urban nature: Analysis and assessment of urban ecosystem services in Salzburg, Austria", module: "Spatial Development Project", master course "Spatial Development and Natural Resource Management", TU Dresden
- Winter term
2018/2019
2017/2018,
2016/2017 Seminar "Urban Ecology - Open Space Planning", module "Landscape and Open Space Planning", master course "Spatial Development and Natural Resource Management", TU Dresden
- Summer term
2019 "meinGrün. Information and navigation to green spaces in cities", master course "Spatial Development and Natural Resource Management", TU Dresden
Reviewer
Cities, Ecosystem Services, Ecological Indicators, Environmental Research, Environmental Science & Policy, Landscape and Urban Planning, Landscape Ecology, Sustainability, Urban Forestry and Urban Greening