Function and Responsibilities:

• Calculation and analysis of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in agriculture
• Development of models for calculating GHG emissions at farm level

Research Interests:

• Greenhouse gas emissions and environmental impacts of agricultural activities
• Possible contribution of livestock farming to a sustainable optimization of agricultural production

Career:

06/22 - now    postdoc at German Research Centre for Geosciences (GFZ), Germany
07/21 - now    part-time farmer (sideline business), Germany
06/16 - 07/21  research scientist at the Institute for Environmental Engineering, TU Berlin, Germany
05/13 - 06/16  research scientist at the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, KU Leuven, Belgium
03/12 - 01/13  agricultural engineer at F&E Pflanzenextrakte - ANKLAM EXTRAKT GmbH, Germany

Education:

09/14 - 04/19  PhD Science (double degree PhD programme) at the Institut de Gestion de l'Environnement et d'Aménagement du Territoire (IGEAT), Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB), Belgium
05/13 - 04/19  PhD Bioscience Engineering at the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, KU Leuven, Belgium    
10/09 - 01/12  MSc Integrated Natural Resource Managment at the HU Berlin, Germany
10/05 - 10/09  BSc Agriculture at the CAU Kiel and HU Berlin, Germany

Projects:

06/22 - now    ReLive - reintegrating land and livestock for greenhouse gas mitigation and circularity (GFZ)
07/18 - 06/21  ProTandem - demonstrating the readiness for production of perovskite-silicon tandem solar cells (TU Berlin)
05/18 - 12/18  textiLCAre - life cycle analysis of the laundry care process and textile production (TU Berlin)
05/13 - 06/16  PROteINSECT - enabling the exploitation of insects as a sustainable source of protein for animal feed and human nutrition (KU Leuven)