My research is centred on testing principles and mechanisms structuring biodiversity, species interactions, and ecosystem functioning, from the local to the global scale. Furthermore, I have a strong interest in how global change affects biodiversity and community processes, and what the ecological and evolutionary consequences are. I am a member of the URPP Global Change and Biodiversity of the University of Zürich, and lead the team biodiversity-environment interactions at Agroscope.

In my research, I am interested in how insect communities have been and are shaped by environmental conditions in general and human-induced global change in particular. I use various approaches such as time-series analyses, functional traits and interaction networks to shed new light into how global change, insect communities and ecosystem functioning are interrelated. Please find more information on my website and the website of Agroscope. 

My PhD project aims to identify the key drivers of biodiversity in mountain grasslands. Using field surveys and a historical dataset, I will assess which grassland management regimes effectively support biodiversity and how these interact with environmental conditions, landscape structure and land-use history. 

My PhD project aims to unravel the combined effects of land use and climate change on plant-invertebrate communities in marginal alpine grasslands. I will further compare biodiversity values of vascular plants and iconic key animal taxa in short- and long-term abandoned grasslands as well as grasslands under conservation management within different European case study areas.

My research focuses on small to large scaled spatio-temporal patterns of biodiversity. In particularly, using data of a large monitoring program on farmland species and habitats (ALL-EMA), I disentangle how land-use and environmental factors drives farmland biodiversity and biotic interactions. I am based at Agroscope. Please find more details on my website or on google scholar.

I am interested in species community patterns from small to large scales. My research focuses on appropriate indicators to describe biodiversity and its drivers, e. g. environmental and land-use factors, or abiotic and biotic interactions. In particularly, I use data of a Swiss monitoring program on farmland species and habitats (ALL-EMA) to investigate biodiversity in space and time. I am based at Agroscope. Please find more details on my website.

As part of the ALL-EMA project, I train and supervise a team of botanists. Further, I do own botanical and phytosciological surveys, I am  responsible for data processing, and I help with the statistical analyses and the methodological development of the project.

Within the monitoring program on farmland species and habitats (ALL-EMA), I am responsible for the support of technical devices. As I am a GIS-specialist I generate and prepare spatial data needed in the database of the project. i am based at Agroscope. Please find more details on my website.

In my MSc Project I investigate how soundscape is linked to the land-use-intensity and the biodiversity of arthropods and plants. I will do so by recording the sounds on the sites of the monitoring program ALL-EMA.

In my MSc project I investigate the impact of artificial light at night on herbivores and how this indirectly affects daytime pollinators.

I do my project with Dr. Birgen Haest from the Swiss Ornithological Station on the biomass and diversity of flying insects close to the ground and in the airspace, and I am co-supervised by Eva Knop.