I am a postdoctoral researcher at ETH Zürich studying how tree populations respond to environmental change across survival, growth, recruitment, fecundity, and species range limits.
My work combines plant demography, long-term forest monitoring, functional traits, species distribution thinking, and comparative life-history theory to understand how forests maintain biodiversity, carbon storage, and ecosystem function in a rapidly changing world.
I am especially interested in the hidden stories inside tree data: why some species persist at their range margins, how demographic trade-offs shape coexistence, how traits and symbioses shape tree life histories, and when forest communities recover, retain carbon, or shift toward new states.
Open to opportunities
Starting January 1, 2027, I am seeking faculty or postdoctoral opportunities related to forest ecology, plant demography, global change biology, forest carbon, or biodiversity science. Relevant leads and conversations are very welcome.
Outside research, I am usually outdoors: hiking mountain trails, swimming in alpine lakes, or skiing through winter landscapes.
Research Focus
Forest Demography and Life History
Quantifying how survival, growth, recruitment, longevity, and demographic trade-offs shape population persistence and forest dynamics.
Traits, Symbioses, and Climate
Linking functional traits, mycorrhizal context, climate sensitivity, and niche breadth to tree growth and longevity.
Forest Carbon and Recovery
Testing how community demography, restoration, invasion history, and root fungal pathways influence biomass accumulation and carbon retention.
Research framework
From changing environments to forest persistence
Climate, disturbance, and biotic context
Environmental filters, invasion history, symbioses, and human impacts set the context for plant population change.
Demographic rates and carbon pathways
Survival, growth, recruitment, fecundity, and biomass gain-loss components reveal where population and ecosystem bottlenecks emerge.
Life-history strategies
Species differ in how traits, symbioses, and demographic trade-offs shape growth, longevity, recovery, and climate sensitivity.
Biodiversity, carbon, and range limits
Demographic mechanisms scale up to coexistence, marginal persistence, forest carbon dynamics, and future community change.
Forest dynamics · Tree demography · Functional traits · Mycorrhizal ecology · Forest carbon · Species range limits · Ecological restoration
News
- 2026-07 I will attend the 2026 Ecological Society of America Annual Meeting in Salt Lake City, USA.
- 2026-03 Our paper on transient dynamics during tree recovery after logging was accepted by Journal of Plant Ecology.
- 2025-08 I was selected to join the Junior Editorial Board of Journal of Plant Ecology and Forestry Research.