About me

I work at Forschungszentrum Jülich, a large research center in Germany, at the Institute for Climate and Energy Systems. I was awarded a Helmholtz Young Investigator Group that will start in October 2024. The focus of our research will be the impact of climate stress on forest emissions and resulting particle pollution. The project will include Zeppelin flights over forests and plant chamber experiments. More information on this project can be found here.

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Until fall 2023, I was a Feodor Lynen Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of California, Berkeley. There, in Allen Goldstein's group, I used aircraft-based measurements to map the emissions of important air pollution precursors - volatile organic compounds. The results will help us and policy makers understand which emission sources are most important in forming health- and climate-impacting surface ozone and particle. This research resulted in a paper in Science.

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I did my PhD research at the Max Planck Institute for Chemistry in Jonathan Williams' group, investigating human influence on atmospheric reactivity both in the Amazon rainforest and in the Middle East.

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I received my Bachelor's and Master's degrees from the Friedrich Schiller University Jena. During that time, I spent a wonderful exchange semester at Université de Montréal in Canada and an inspiring research semester at the Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research on an island in the North Sea.

 

Probably the most formative 12 months of my life happened before university, when I spent a year in development service in Cambodia with the environmental organization Mlup Baitong funded by the German Ministry of International Cooperation & Development .