Education and Career
01.2013-present Head of the Dendro-Ecology Group at
the Swiss Federal Research Institute WSL, Birmensdorf, Switzerland
09.2012-present Associated Senior Scientist at the Global Change Research Centre AS CR, Brno, Czech Republic
05.2012 Call for S-Professorship in Palaeoclimatology at Humboldt-University Berlin in combination with the GFZ Potsdam (declined)
10.2011 Habilitation at the University of Bern: Tree rings and climate – beyond temperature reconstructions
10-12.2010 Guest-Professor at the University of Madrid, Spain, Department of Astrophysics, collaboration with JF Gonzalez-Rouco
03.2009-08.2012 Associated Research Fellow at the Institute of Geography, Masaryk University of Brno, Czech Republic
06.2007-present Associated Research Fellow of the Oeschger Centre for Climate Change Research, University of Bern, Switzerland
11.2006-present Scientist at the Swiss Federal Research Institute WSL, Birmensdorf, Switzerland
11.2006 PhD thesis, Department of Geography, University of Bern, Switzerland: Long-term European climate reconstructions from high-elevation tree-rings
Grade: summa cum laude, Supervisor: Wanner H, Esper J, Nicolussi K
09.2004-10.2006 PhD Candidate, University of Bern, Switzerland
09.2003-08.2004 Scientific Research Assistant, Swiss Federal Research Institute WSL, Birmensdorf, Switzerland
08.2003 Master thesis, Department of Geography, University Bonn, Germany: Dendroklimatologische Analysen einer 1000-jährigen Lärchenchronologie aus rezenten und verbauten Hölzern für das Lötschental, Schweiz
Grade: 1.0, Supervisor: Winiger M, Esper J, Neuwirth B
04.1999-08.2003 Studies of Geography, Geology and Cartography, University Bonn, Germany
09.1998-04.1999 Stay abroad: San Diego, USA
08.1997-09.1998 Social service: „GL-GL“ Bonn, Germany
06.1997 Allgemeine Hochschulreife: Gymnasium am Ölberg, Königswinter, Germany
09.2012-present Associated Senior Scientist at the Global Change Research Centre AS CR, Brno, Czech Republic
05.2012 Call for S-Professorship in Palaeoclimatology at Humboldt-University Berlin in combination with the GFZ Potsdam (declined)
10.2011 Habilitation at the University of Bern: Tree rings and climate – beyond temperature reconstructions
10-12.2010 Guest-Professor at the University of Madrid, Spain, Department of Astrophysics, collaboration with JF Gonzalez-Rouco
03.2009-08.2012 Associated Research Fellow at the Institute of Geography, Masaryk University of Brno, Czech Republic
06.2007-present Associated Research Fellow of the Oeschger Centre for Climate Change Research, University of Bern, Switzerland
11.2006-present Scientist at the Swiss Federal Research Institute WSL, Birmensdorf, Switzerland
11.2006 PhD thesis, Department of Geography, University of Bern, Switzerland: Long-term European climate reconstructions from high-elevation tree-rings
Grade: summa cum laude, Supervisor: Wanner H, Esper J, Nicolussi K
09.2004-10.2006 PhD Candidate, University of Bern, Switzerland
09.2003-08.2004 Scientific Research Assistant, Swiss Federal Research Institute WSL, Birmensdorf, Switzerland
08.2003 Master thesis, Department of Geography, University Bonn, Germany: Dendroklimatologische Analysen einer 1000-jährigen Lärchenchronologie aus rezenten und verbauten Hölzern für das Lötschental, Schweiz
Grade: 1.0, Supervisor: Winiger M, Esper J, Neuwirth B
04.1999-08.2003 Studies of Geography, Geology and Cartography, University Bonn, Germany
09.1998-04.1999 Stay abroad: San Diego, USA
08.1997-09.1998 Social service: „GL-GL“ Bonn, Germany
06.1997 Allgemeine Hochschulreife: Gymnasium am Ölberg, Königswinter, Germany
