Reviewing, Funding and Awards
Funding
- DAAD Congress Scholarship: IALE 2025 European Landscape Ecology Congress, Bratislava, Slovakia (2025).
- DFG Research Group 5664 FORMULA. Sub project "Mapping plant functional variation (MapFun)", Co-PI. (2024-2028)
- University of Sassari (Italy), Visiting Professor Programme (2024).
- DAAD Congress Scholarship: EMAPI - 16th International Conference on Ecology and Management of Alien Plant Invasions. Pucón, Chile (2023)
- DAAD PPP Program: Alien species in a changing world: detection, monitoring and prediction
- HLNUG Biodiversity Fund (Co-PI): Monitoring of plant species relevant for nature conservation and restoration measure using remote sensing (MonA) (2021-2024)
- HLNUG Biodiversity Fund (Co-PI): Development of methods for monitoring traditional orchards in Hesse with focus on 3D Lidar data (MOST3D) (2020-2023)
- DFG Individual Research Grant (Not PI, Co-writer): Quantifying the spatial impact of exotic plant invasion on ecosystem functioning- from the leaf to the landscape level (QUEEN) (2013-2016)
- EUFAR Grant (PI) for Acquisition of Airborne Hyperspectral and LiDAR Data (DeInVader) (2011)
- DAAD Research Grant for PhD Students for field studies abroad, University of Lisbon (Centro Biologia Ambiental) (2011)
Awards
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Helmut-Lieth-Price for Environmental Sciences, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg. 2018.
Grant Reviews
- European Research Council (ERC) Starting Grant
Reviewing Activities for Scientific Journals
e.g. Applied Vegetation Science, Ecological Indicators, International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation, ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, Journal of Ecology, Methods in Ecology and Evolution, Nature Conservation, New Phytologist, Remote Sensing, Remote Sensing in Ecology and Conservation
For a complete list please have a look at my Web of Science-Profile
Editorial Board Memberships
- Applied Vegetation Science (Editorial Review Board, since 2026)