Curriculum vitae

maternity leave

Project Manager Ziama Forest, Republic of Guinea, West Africa - Fauna & Flora International

Management of the FFI projects (Darwin, WaBICC and species fund) in the biosphere reserve Ziama Forest. Supervision of data collection via ranger biomonitoring and camera trapping.

Amphibians of the Nimba Mountains – Museum für Naturkunde, Berlin

Development of research methods, proposal writing, Nimba toad field work, data analyses (including modelling), reporting. Management of the project and since 2011 principal contact for the grant donor, including grant negotiations.

Morpholigical and genetic species determination, Sierra Leone.

Environmental and Social Impact Assessment (ESIA) Telimélé, Guinea. Genetic and morphological analyses, report writing.

Participation in the Environmental and Social Impact Assessment (ESIA) SMFG, Nimba Mountains, Guinea.

Environmental and Social Impact Assessment (ESIA) railway, Guinea. Biodiversity assessment, heading a team of seven.

Assistant scientist - Johannes-Guttenberg-University Mainz.

Doctoral thesis - Humboldt University Berlin, Germany - Ecology

Title: "Living in a vanishing place - population genetics and environmental determinants of the distribution of the Nimba toad, Nimbaphrynoides occidentalis." Supervisors: Mark-Oliver Rödel, Heike Feldhaar.

Diploma – University of Würzburg, Germany – Animal ecology and tropical biology, Behavioural physiology and sociobiology, Ecophysiology and vegetation biology.

Title: “Population genetic analysis of a West-African tree-hole breeder, Phrynobatrachus guineensis (Amphibia: Anura: Phrynobatrachidae).” Supervisors: Mark-Oliver Rödel, Heike Feldhaar.

2004 - Internship, Sao Paulo, Brazil - Univeristy of Hamburg, Germany

Erasmus exchange - University of Manchester

Graduate student - Georg-August-University, Göttingen, Germany - Plant ecology, Anthropology

Undergraduate student - Georg-August-University, Göttingen, Germany - Biology

Visiting student - University of Hambrug, Germany - Geology and Palaeontology

Amphibians of the Nimba Mountains. Monitoring and Nimba toad dry season dormancy sites.

Amphibians of the Nimba Mountains. Monitoring.

Amphibians of the Nimba Mountains. Monitoring.

Amphibians of the Nimba Mountains. Monitoring, Nimba toad microhabitats.

Amphibians of the Nimba Mountains. Monitoring, climatic conditions.

Amphibians of the Nimba Mountains. Monitoring, re-examination of amphibian diversity in the surrounding lowlands and between monitoring areas.

Amphibians of the Nimba Mountains. Monitoring.

DAAD travel grant

ERASMUS grant