Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences - Geography Department

Curriculum Vitae

  • 07/2011 – present: Doctoral student, Geography Department, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany Title: “Land-use change, protected area effectiveness, and wildlife dynamics in post-Soviet European Russia”
    Primary supervisor: Tobias Kuemmerle
  • 10/2010 – 01/2013: Research assistant in the project “Land-use and land-cover change effects on biodiversity in European Russia (LUCC-BIO)” funded through the German Research Foundation (DFG)
  • 10/2002 – 09/2010: Diplom (MSc equivalent) in Geography, Agrarian Sciences and Geology, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany Thesis: “Post-Soviet land-use change and the effectiveness of protected areas in European Russia – A case study for Oksky Nature Reserve”
    Supervisors: Patrick Hostert, Tobias Kuemmerle
  • 10/2009 – 12/2009: Visiting student, Department of Forest and Wildlife Ecology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA
  • 09/2005 – 06/2006: Visiting scholar, Moscow State University, Russia
  • 10/2001 – 09/2002: Student of Human Geography, Environmental Sciences, and Public Law, University of Potsdam, Germany