• Lectures, seminars, exercises and excursions at the Bachelor’s and Master’s level, in English and German, for example:
  Biotic Interactions in a Changing World (Master; lecture and seminar)
  Experimental and Theoretical Evolutionary Ecology (Master; lecture, seminar, exercises and excursions)
• Supervision and mentoring at the Bachelor’s, Master’s, PhD, and postdoctoral level - inquiries welcome!

Research Area

Theoretical ecology, invasion biology, ecological novelty, evolutionary ecology, predator-prey interactions, conservation biology, urban ecology, interdisciplinary integration, research synthesis

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Selected media coverage:
AlphaGalileo, Arte: Xenius, Art in Berlin, Asian Age, ATLAS, Bayern 5 aktuell, Birdwatch, Business Standard, Campus.Leben, Conservation Magazine, The Conservation Science Institute Report, Deccan Chronicle, Deutschlandradio Kultur, EarthSky, Financial Express, Focus Italia, The Guardian, gwf Wasser | Abwasser, HeritageDaily, Hessischer Rundfunk: hessenschau, The Hindu, I4U News, Ideas for Sustainability, IES Newsletter, Indian Express, Innovations Report, International Business Times, Inverse, IUCN News, Kommunale Galerie Berlin, LaborPraxis, Leibniz-Gemeinschaft: Welten, Leibniz-Journal, Münchner Merkur, National Geographic, Natural Science News, Natur.de, Nature Research Highlights, NDR 1, Neue Zürcher Zeitung (NZZ), Newzs.de, NZ Herald, Ö1: Wissen aktuell, Öko-Test, ORF: science.ORF.at, Oxford Virtual, Oximity, Pune Media, Rabe Ralf, Residency Unlimited, Resilience Science, 3sat: nano, Schweizer Bauer, ScienceDaily, Science News/AAAS, Le Scienze – Edizione italiana di Scientific American, Scimex, Siasat Daily, Sky News, Spektrumdirekt, Der Standard, Südkurier, tagesschau.de, Tagesspiegel, taz.die tageszeitung, Thinking Port, Tierwelt, VBIO, Verbundjournal, VET-Magazin, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, WDR 5, WELT Podcast, Weser-Kurier, Wiener Zeitung, WISSENundBildung.net, Zee News, ZEIT LEO, ZEIT ONLINE

Editorial work for:
Axios Review: Associate Editor, 2017
Basic and Applied Ecology: Book Review Editor, 2012–2020
Conservation Biology: Ad-hoc Editor, 2008–2009
Dataset Papers in Science: Associate Editor, 2012–2017
Diversity and Distributions: Associate Editor, 2011–2015
Ecological Applications: Ad-hoc Editor, 2012–2013
Environmental Conservation: Associate Editor since 2024
Immediate Science Ecology: Associate Editor since 2012
ISRN Ecology: Associate Editor, 2010–2014
Management of Biological Invasions: Associate Editor, 2010–2012
NeoBiota: Associate Editor since 2010
Soil Organisms: Associate Editor, 2007–2018

Reviewer for funding agencies:
Agence Nationale de la Recherche, Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Canada Council for the Arts, Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, European Research Council, Genome British Columbia, Israel Science Foundation, Leverhulme Trust, Schweizerischer Nationalfonds, VolkswagenStiftung

Reviewer for scientific journals:
American Naturalist, Aquatic Ecology, Archiv für Hydrobiologie, Basic and Applied Ecology, Behavioral Ecology, Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, Biological Invasions, BioScience, Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, Canadian Journal of Zoology, Conservation Biology, Diversity and Distributions, Ecological Applications, Ecological Entomology, Ecological Indicators, Ecological Modelling, Ecology, Ecology Letters, Ecology of Freshwater Fish, Ecosystems, Environmental Management, Evolution, Freshwater Biology, Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment, Functional Ecology, Global Change Biology, Global Ecology and Biogeography, iScience, Journal of Animal Ecology, Journal of Field Ornithology, Journal of Theoretical Biology, Journal of the Royal Society Interface, Journal of Zoology, Limnology & Oceanography, Marine and Freshwater Research, Marine Ecology Progress Series, Methods in Ecology and Evolution, Nature, Nature Ecology & Evolution, Oecologia, Oikos, Peerage of Science, PeerJ, PLoS ONE, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA, Proceedings of the Royal Society B, Science of the Total Environment, Trends in Ecology & Evolution, Wildlife Research, etc.

Serving as expert on scientific committees:
Alliance for Freshwater Life (AFL): Board Member and Joint Leader of core area Data & Synthesis since 2017
Berlin Senate: Member of Sachverständigenbeirat für Naturschutz und Landschaftspflege (Expert Advisory Board for Nature Conservation and Landscape Management) since 2024, Member of focus group non-native species for Berlin's Biodiversity Strategy since Oct 2023
BiodivERsA: Evaluation Committee Member for 2011/2012 call
COST Actions: Management Committee (MC) Member of COST Action CA17122 ALIEN CSI (Increasing understanding of alien species through citizen science), 2018-2023; MC Member (Substitute) of COST Action TD 1209 ALIEN Challenge (European Information System for Alien Species), 2013-2017
European Food Safety Authority (EFSA, GMO Panel and Scientific Committee): External Expert, 2010-2015
External examiner: Technische Universität München, 2023; University of Lausanne, Switzerland, 2023; Swansea University, UK, 2023; Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, 2022; Universität Basel, Switzerland, 2022; Friedrich Schiller University Jena, 2021; Université de Fribourg, Switzerland, 2021; Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic, 2020; Durham University, UK, 2020; Monash University, Australia, 2020; Stellenbosch University, South Africa, 2019; Technische Universität Berlin, 2019; Imperial College London, UK, 2017; Queen's University Belfast, UK, 2015
GO FAIR Discovery Implementation Network: Member since 2019
International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN, Commission on Ecosystem Management (CEM) and Invasive Species Specialist Group (ISSG) of IUCN’s Species Survival Commission (SSC)): Expert Member since 2010
Institute Technology-Theology-Natural Sciences (TTN), LMU Munich: Selection Committee Member for the TTN Essay Award 2013 on Green Biotechnology in the Anthropocene
Invasion Dynamics Network (InDyNet): Founder and Head of Steering Committee since 2015
NEOBIOTA: Council Member, 2018-2022
School Kirchseeon, Germany: academic partner for scientific seminar macroecology/ macroevolution, 2016