CV

Education

2023 PhD. Biology - Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg (MLU)
- Title: “Exploring the complexities of climate driver timing: Insights at the levels of vital rates and population dynamics”
- Supervisors: Tiffany Knight & Aldo Compagnoni
2017 MSc. Biology - Wageningen University, Netherlands
- Specialisation: Conservation and Systems Ecology
- Thesis: “The correlation between Primary Production and Predator Prey Ratios, a Global Analysis”
- Internship: “Mammal Species Inventory and Habitat Use in Ntchisi Forest Reserve, Malawi”
2015 BSc. Biology - Wageningen University, Netherlands
- Major: Ecology and Biodiversity
- Minor: Wildlife Biodiversity

2019-2023: Doctoral Researcher at iDiv, UFZ and MLU (Germany)
- Methods used include;
  - Matrix population models
  - Integral projection models
  - Individual based models
  - Sliding window analysis
  - Functional linear models
  - Frequentist and Bayesian analyses
- Additional tasks:
  - Supervision of MSc students
  - Communication of research through talks and publications
  - Collaboration on additional projects
2022 (April-July): Guest Researcher at the Czech Academy of Science (Czech Republic)
- Funded by the European Cooperation in Science and Technology
- Assisted in the yearly census of multiple population D. austriacum
- Methods used include;
  - Integral projection models
  - Individual based models
2018-2019: Research Assistant at iDiv and MLU (Germany)
- Digitizing published matrix population models into COMAPDRE
- Digitizing published integral projection models into PADRINO
- Using QGIS to enter individual level information (like size) on carpobrotus spp. populations from pictures

2022 (Nov.): Organizer - “An introduction to modeling and synthesizing Integral Projection Models using the R packages ipmr and Rpadrino” workshop
- Writing workshop proposal
- Organizing and leading a 4-hour pre-conference workshop at the SFE2-GfÖ-EEF joint meeting.
- Presenting on integral projection model theory and two R-packages
- Writing tutorials
2021-2023: Co-organizer - Multiple workshops that introduce the “ipmr” R-package and RPADRINO database
- Tasks;
  - present theory and packages
- Conferences;
  - Annual meeting of the Ecological Society of America, 2021
  - Annual meeting of the British Ecological Society, 2021
  - 8th meeting of the Evolutionary Demography Society, 2023