Curriculum vitae
Academic experience
2025 - ongoing: Postdoctoral researcher and scientific coordinator, Soil Science, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Germany
FNR-funded project PoToMa - Potentials of Deadwood Management
2025 - 2025 (6 months): Postdoctoral researcher, Silviculture and Forest Ecology of the Temperate Zones, University of Göttingen, Germany
DFG-funded Start-up grant. Project: "Functional traits of soil nitrifiers"
2024 - 2025 (7 months): Parental leave
2021 - 2025: Research associate, Soil Science of Temperate Ecosystems, The University of Göttingen, Germany
DFG-funded Research training Group 2300 "EnriCo: Enrichment of European Beech Forests with ConifersExterner Link"
2017 - 2019: Student research assistant and tutor, Institute of Soil Research and Institute of Agronomy, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences Vienna (BOKU), Austria
Education
2021 - 2025: Doctoral studies (dr. rer. nat.), Soil Science of Temperate Ecosystems, The University of Göttingen, Germany
DFG-funded Research training Group 2300 EnriCo: Enrichment of European Beech Forests with ConifersExterner Link
Thesis: "Tree functional traits driving nitrogen cycling in pure and mixed stands of Douglas fir and European beech"
2017 - 2019: Exchange year and Master's thesis, Institute of Soil Research, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences Vienna (BOKU), Austria
Thesis: "The effect of pH on phosphate solubility in agricultural soils"
2016 - 2019: Master of Science (M.Sc.) in Agronomy, Biotechnical Faculty, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia
2014 - 2015: Exchange year and Bachelor's thesis, Faculty of Architecture and Landscape, Dresden University of Technology, Germany
Thesis: "Groundwater recharge model and landscape planning concept for a municipality"
2012 - 2015: Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) in Landscape Architecture, Biotechnical Faculty, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia