Personal and professional career

 

2014 – present	Academic Councilor at the University of Konstanz Limnological Institute, Environmental Physics Group, Germany
2019 (May-Aug)	Guest scientists at Queen’s University, Faculty of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Civil Engineering, Boegman Group, Ontario, Canada
2009 – 2013	Senior Scientist at the University of Konstanz Limnological Institute, Environmental Physics Group, Germany
2008	Postdoc at the University of Konstanz Limnological Institute, Environmental Physics Group, Germany
2004 – 2007	Research Associate (PhD) at the University of Konstanz Limnological Institute, Environmental Physics Group, Germany PhD thesis:‘Characteristics and implications of surface gravity waves in the littoral zone of a large lake (Lake Constance)’ Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Frank Peeters, University of Konstanz
2003 – 2004	Research Associate at Brandenburg University of Technology Cottbus Department of Freshwater Conservation, Germany
2003	Diploma thesis: ‘Morphometrische, hydrologische und hydrogeologische Charakterisierung des Tagebausees Plessa 117 (Grünewalder Lauch)’ at Brandenburg University of Technology Cottbus, Department of Freshwater Conservation, Germany – Grade of examination: ‘excellent’
1999 – 2003	Study of Environmental and Process Engineering at Brandenburg University of Technology Cottbus, Germany
1998 – 1999	Socrates-Erasmus-Student of Civil Engineering and Environmental Chemistry at Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands
1996 – 1998	Basic studies of Environmental and Process Engineering at Brandenburg University of Technology Cottbus, Germany

 

Awards

 

2008	‘Environmental Award’ of the Baden-Württemberg Thrift Institution and the foundation ‘Environment and Life’
2008	‘Young Scientist Award’ of the German Society for Limnology (DGL)
2003	Best Diploma Thesis of Faculty of Environmental Science and Process Engineering at Brandenburg University of Technology Cottbus

 

Grants

 

2019	Ontario-Baden-Wuerttemberg Faculty Mobility Program
2019	Child care, GSR at the University of Konstanz
2018	Reinvestment Fund, Department of Biology at the University of Konstanz
2017	Reinvestment Fund, Department of Biology at the University of Konstanz
2016	FlexA – Science with children, GSR at the University of Konstanz
2015	Reinvestment Fund, Department of Biology at the University of Konstanz
2015	Young Scholar Fund (YSF-DFG), University of Konstanz
2014	Young Scholar Fund (YSF-DFG), University of Konstanz
2013	Young Scholar Fund (YSF-DFG), University of Konstanz
2011	Young Scholar Fund (YSF-DFG), University of Konstanz
2007	Travel Grant: European Science Foundation (ESF) – 30th Congress of the International Association of Theoretical and Applied Limnology (SIL), Montreal, Canada

 

Peer-Review activities

Limnology and Oceanography	Water Resources Research
Environmental Science & Technology	Nature – Scientific Reports
Aquatic Sciences	Estuarine Coastal Shelf Science
Journal of Geophysical Research	Hydrobiologia
Hydrology and Earth System Sciences	Estonian Journal of Engineering
Journal of Marine Systems	International Review of Hydrobiology
Estuaries and Coasts