Aktueller Hinweis 23.Nov.2022

In bekannten online Portalen aus Deutschland, werden Immobilien fälschlicherweise unter meinem Namen angeboten. Ich verkaufe oder vermiete keine Immobilien. Meine Personaldaten werden ohne mein Einverständnis hier angewendet. EMail-Adressen die mit meinem Namen in anderen privaten Domains eingerichtet werden, stammen nicht von mir. Es handelt sich hier um einen Betrug, in dem Kriminelle unter einem fremden Namen, mögliche Käufer oder Mieter dazu auffordern, Geld für eine Besichtigung zu überweisen, die nicht stattfinden wird. Bitte geben Sie Ihre Daten nicht an diese Betrüger weiter und überweisen kein Geld. Bitte melden Sie suspekte Inserate bei den entsprechenden Portalen und informieren Sie die Polizei über den versuchten Betrug.

Current Notice 23.Nov.2022

In well-known online Portals from Germany, real estate properties are being offered in my name. I do not sell or rent any property at all. My name and further personal data are being used in this respect, without my consent. Any email-address with my name created in other private domains, are not mine. This a fraud, in which criminals, under a fake name, try to trick potential buyers or tenants into transferring money to arrange a house inspection that will not take place. Please, do not provide your personal data to these impostors and do not transfer any mone in such a situation. Please report fraudulent advertisements to the respective portals and inform police about any attempted scam.

I am a biologist with practical experience in limnology, spatial ecology, watershed management, environmental planning and biodiversity conservation. In previous projects, I have implemented diverse ecological models, analyzed GIS data sets, programmed using R and applied numerous field techniques (e.g. mist-netting, multi-habitat sampling of rivers). My taxonomic expertise covers diverse groups including birds, benthic macroinvertebrates, aquatic hyphomycetes, freshwater fish, plants, reptiles and mammals. Geographically, my research has dealt with ecosystems in the Neotropical, Palearctic and Indomalayan biogeographic realms.

I earned a Ph.D. (Dr. phil. nat.) in Biology at the Goethe-Univarsität Frankfurt am Main and the Senckenberg Research Institute in Germany. Previously, I graduated from the international M.Sc. programme Environmental and Resource Management at the Brandenburgische Technische Universität Cottbus (now BTU Cottbus–Senftenberg). Before that, I earned a B.Sc. in Biology from the Universidad Latina and a B.A. in Business from the Universidad Interamericana, both in Costa Rica.

Previously, I was a Research Fellow at the Piggott Lab at Trinity College, in Dublin, Ireland. Before that, I was a postdoctoral researcher in the Ecological Modelling group at Eawag. At the Senckenberg Research Institute, I was first a PhD student and later a postdoctoral researcher at the River and Floodplain Ecology section, as well as at the Senckenberg Biodiversity and Climate Research Centre. Beyond science, I have worked as an environmental consultant as part of a team and independently, in Europe and in Central America.

For the Freshwater Biodiversity Observation Network (FW BON, I served as a regional coordinator for Central and South America (Latin America, sensu lato).