Since childhood I have been fascinated by nature and want to understand the interrelationships and dynamics behind the wonders of the living world. I’ve a strong interest and passion in the ecology, evolution and behaviour of wildlife. I want to know how interactions with the environment, different individuals, other populations and different species influences individuals and populations. Investigating the effect of anthropogenic and environmental change on ecosystems and thereby creating a foundation for science and conservation is one of my main motivation.
Project
For my PhD I’ll join the Wild dog team and work on the demography of this charismatic African predator. Read more about the wild dogs here: https://www.popecol.org/research/african-wild-dog/ .
Using a rich dataset, spanning three decades, and collected by the Botswana Predator Conservation Trust (BPC, https://www.bpctrust.org/), we aim to understand how the demography of the African wild dog is influence by top down effects of lion (main competitor), and bottom up effects of impala (main prey). We’ll use state of the art Bayesian models to explore these relationships and hope that it will aid in the development of robust conservation measurements.
CV
- Mar 2024 – present: PhD Student, Department of Evolutionary Biology and Environmental Studies, University of Zurich, Switzerland
- Oct 2022 – Oct 2023: Research camp manager, Kokolopori Bonobo Research Project
- Apr 2022 – Jul 2022: Seabird research assistant Farallon islands, Point Blue Conservation Science
- Apr 2020 – Sep 2021: MSc Student, Department of Evolutionary Biology and Environmental Studies, University of Zurich, Switzerland
- Sep 2015 – March 2020: BSc Student, Biology, University of Zurich, Switzerland
Publication
- , , , & (2024). Anthropogenic and climatic drivers of population densities in an African savanna ungulate community. Population Ecology, 1–20. https://doi.org/10.1002/1438-390X.12182