Responsibilities

• Operational management and coordination of research and education at AgroVet-Strickhof.
• Leading the team

Education and career

• since April 2020: Head of Research AgroVet-Strickhof. Operational management and coordination of research activities.
• January 2019 to March 2020: Senior Assistant and Group Leader of the area "Sustainable Poultry Nutrition" and "Digestion, Metabolism and Environment" Institute of Agricultural Sciences, Chair of Animal Nutrition at ETH Zurich.
• December 2015 to December 2018: PhD at ETH Zurich: dissertation on the use of native herbaceous and woody plants in ruminant feeding for methane and ammonia reduction ("Potential of forages from temperate-climate woody and herbaceous plants to mitigate methane and ammonia in ruminants").
• September 2013 to November 2015: Master's degree in agricultural sciences at the University of Hohenheim (Germany), specializing in animal sciences. Master's thesis at the Agroscope INH Research Station in Tänikon ("Evaluation of optimal milking place settings with special consideration of practice measurements").
• September 2010 to August 2013: Bachelor studies in agricultural sciences at the University of Hohenheim (Germany), majoring in animal sciences. Bachelor thesis at the Institute of Farm Animal Ethology ("Manure Place Conditioning in Cattle").