Research Interests

• Path- and context dependence of ecosystem reaction.
• Non-equilibrium dynamics in ecosystems.
• Ecological and evolutionary role of environmental predictability.
• Cross-scale similarity of ecological response characteristics.
• Theoretical concepts and biogeographic patterns related to the energy budget of organisms.
• Theoretical concepts for megafauna ecosystem ecology.
  
• Optimization of ecological sampling approaches.

Awards

• Early Career Research Recognition by the Bayreuth Center of Ecology and Environmental Research (BayCEER).
• Bernd-Rendel Prize by the German Research Foundation (DFG)
• Dissertation award by the Ecological Society of Germany, Austria and Switzerland (GfÖ) 2017