Research interests
Biodiversity patterns and processes at different spatial and temporal scales, monitoring, conservation strategies, statistical modeling, plant ecology (flowering plants, mosses, lichens) and floristics (especially of mosses), peatlands, TWW, floodplains, red lists
Education and professional career
since 2011 Head of the 'Habitat Dynamics' group in the 'Biodiversity and Conservation Biology' research unit
2006-2010 Head of the 'Indicators and Evaluation' group in the 'Biodiversity and Conservation Biology' research unit
2003-2006 Staff scientist at the WSL in the department 'Genetic Ecology'
2001-2003 Staff scientist at the 'Research Center for Environmental Monitoring (FUB)'
1999-2002 Field surveys and moss determinations for the project 'Erfolgskontrolle Moorbiotopschutz' (WSL)
1996-2001 PhD thesis at the Institute of Systematic Botany and the Institute of Environmental Sciences at the University of Zurich under the Head of Prof. Dr. Bernhard Schmid and Dr. E. Urmi: 'Species diversity of bryophytes in montane calcareous wetlands: Effects of environmental variables and influence of vascular plants'
1993-1995 Diploma thesis at the Institute of Systematic Botany at the University of Zurich under the Head of Dr. E. Urmi: ' Investigations of the relationships between moss flora and environmental parameters using canonical correspondence analysis '
Further activities
since 1993 Staff member of the 'National Inventory of the Swiss Moss Flora' NISM
since 1996 board member of the 'Swiss Association for Bryology and Lichenology' (BRYOLICH)
2001- 2009 Webmaster at BRYOLICH: development and maintenance of the homepage
since 2004 Member of the mapping commission 'Natural inventory of the Swiss moss flora'
2008 - 2012 Member of the Board of the Zurich Botanical Society ZBG
since 2016 President of the 'Swiss Association for Bryology and Lichenology' BRYOLICH
since 2014 IUCN Red List Authority (RLA) Coordinator Bryophytes within the IUCN Bryophyte Specialist Group(BSG)