CV

Employment 

Mai 2023  –  Present

Coordination substitute of BioDivKultur

March 2023  –  Present

Lecturer at the University of Vienna

December 2021 – Present

Research Associate at TU Darmstadt

March 2021 – June 2021

Analyst in a PCR laboratory

July & August 2020

Site management at the Summer City Camp Vienna

June 2019 – Present (since 2022 retired)

National Park-Ranger at the Nationalpark Thayatal

March 2017 – August 2020

Student Assistant at the University of Vienna

April 2016 – December 2021

Guide and Zoo-educator at Tiergarten Schönbrunn (Zoo Vienna)

November 2014 – February 2022

Occasional freelance work

Teaching

Summer term 2024

300301 UE Kenntnis mitteleurop. Lebensgemeinschaften (University Vienna)

Ökologie-Praktikum (TU Darmstadt)

Summer term 2023

300301 UE Kenntnis mitteleurop. Lebensgemeinschaften (University Vienna)

Summer term 2022

Ökologisches Freilandpraktikum (TU Darmstadt)

Funds & scholarships

2024

Early-Career-Researcher Fund, TU Darmstadt

June 2017

British Ecology Society scholarship

Education

March 2024 – Present

Education Programme as Certified Nature Educator (University College for Agricultural and Environmental Education)

March 2022 – Present

PhD candidate (Technical University Darmstadt)

February 2018 – July 2020

Training as National Park-Ranger (Nationalpark Thayatal)

October 2016 – June 2020

Master of Science in Behavior, Neurobiology, and Cognition (University of Vienna)

October 2016 – June 2020

Master of Science in Zoology (University of Vienna)

October 2016 – not finished

Teacher Education Programme Biology and Environmental Studies and Mathematics (University of Vienna)

October 2012 – September 2016

Bachelor of Science in Biology (University of Vienna)

Till June 2012

(AHS) Academic High School (Neulandschule Laaerberg)

Field trips (abroad)

March & April 2024

Orthopteran herbivory research in tropical rainforest ecosystems during natural reforestation, contributing to the Reassembly project (Canandé, Chocó forest, Ecuador) 

March 2018

Botanical, zoological and pedological studies in different types of desert in Wadi Rum and Wadi Araba (Southern Jordan)

July & August 2017

Tropical Biology Association (TBA Cambridge) Course on Tropical Ecology and Conservation based at Amani Forest Nature Reserve, Tanzania

February 2016

Field course on Tropical botany and plant-animal-interactions in La Gamba, Costa Rica

February 2015

Field course on GIS field methods and behavioural ecology & diversity of neotropical amphibians in French Guiana

July & August 2014

Project in applied nature conservation: Protection of sea turtles in Turkey

Other licences

Paragliding licence

Open water diver (PADI)

Driving licence A & B