Experience

  1. Postdoc • Bielefeld Young Researchers Fund Bridge Scholarship

    Bielefeld University, Germany
    Preparing manuscripts and grant proposals in avian chemical ecology. Supervised by Barbara Caspers at the Department of Behavioural Ecology.

  2. PhD project

    Bielefeld University, Germany
    PhD thesis on The role of preen oil and body odour in birds. Supervised by Barbara Caspers and Innes Cuthill at the Department of Behavioural Ecology.
    Read PhD thesis

  3. MSc project

    University of Turku, Finland
    MSc thesis on The effect of early food availlability on morphology and personality in blue tits. Supervised by Jon Brommer and Barbara Class at the Department of Biology.

Education

  1. PhD Behavioural and Chemical Ecology

    Bielefeld University, Germany

  2. MSc Ecology Ecophysiology Ethology

    University of Strasbourg, France

  3. BSc Animal Biology

    University of Caen Normandie, France & University of Bergen, Norway
Skills
Ornithology
Species identification
Nest searching
Capture, ringing & sampling

Mistnetting, morphometric measurements, blood sampling

Chemical analyses
Odour sampling

Preen oil, whole-body

Solvent extraction
Gas chromatography

GC-MS, GC-FID

Statistical analyses
Mutlivariate analyses

PERMANOVA, RDA, PCA

Mixed models
Bayesian approaches
Project management
Planning of breeding monitoring
Coordination of fieldwork in remote locations
Grants & Awards
Travel grant
💲 400€ · German Ornithological Society (DO-G) ∙ August 2025
Postdoctoral Scholarship
💲 24000€ (12 months) · Bielefeld Young Researchers’ Fund ∙ March 2024
Best talk award
🏅 Behaviour 2023 (International Council of Ethologists), Bielefeld, Germany ∙ August 2023
PhD Scholarship
💲7500€ (6 months) · Bielefeld Young Researchers’ Fund ∙ March 2023
Best talk award
🏅 DZG 2022 (German Zoological Society), Bonn, Germany ∙ September 2022
Travel grant
💲 300€ · International Society of Behavioural Ecology (ISBE) ∙ July 2022
People’s choice video award
🏅 ASAB Twitter Conference 2021 (Association for the Study of Animal Behaviour) ∙ January 2021
Best talk award
🏅 EthoGes 2020 (German Ethological Society), Tübingen, Germany ∙ February 2020
Best poster award
🏅 International Student Course in Behavioural Biology 2018 (Institut Francilien d’Ethologie), Paris, France ∙ July 2018
Traineeship Scholarship
💲 3600€ (6 months) · Erasmus+ ∙ January 2018