Curriculum vitae

Since March 2007
PhD-Student at the University of Göttingen, Albrecht-von-Haller Institute of Plant Sciences, Department of Palynology and Climate Dynamics.

DFG project: Studien zur Vegetations-, Feuer- und Klimadynamik im Spätquartär als Beitrag zum Schutz und Management des Biodiversitätszentrums „Mata Atlântica“ in Südbrasilien. (Studies on dynamics of vegetation, fire and climate in the late Quaternary as a contribution to conservation and management of the area of high biodiversity „Mata Atlântica“ in Southern Brazil.)


2005-2006
Scientific Student Assistant at the chair in special botany and mycology (University of Tübingen) within the scope of the DFG projects „Diversität und Nutzungspotential der arbuskulären Mykorrhiza im tropischen Bergregenwald von Südecuador“ (Diversity and potential of use of arbuscular mycorrhiza in the tropical montaine rain forest of Southern Ecuador) and „AM fungal diversity in a Montane forest of Ethiopia with special emphasis in Nurse tree effect“.


02/2005
Graduation in Biology (Diplom) at the University of Tübingen
Major subject: Botany
Minor subjects: Plant Physiology and Paleontology


01 - 11/2004
Work on Diplom thesis. Original title: „Die Mykorrhizierung von Inga acreana Harms (Familie Leguminosae) im neotropischen Bergnebelwald in Ecuador“ (Mycorrhization of Inga acreana Harms (Family Leguminosae) in the neotropic montaine cloud forest in Ecuador).
Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Ingrid Kottke, chair in Special Botaniy and Mykology, University of Tübingen.


2002
Scientific Student Assistant (Supervisor Dr. Kathrin Schrick) working at the Centre for Plant Molecular Biology and Developmental Genetics (University of Tübingen) on the DFG project "Molekulare Analyse von Sterol-Biosynthese Mutanten der Arabidopsis thaliana" (Molecular analyse of sterol-biosythesis-mutants of Arabidopsis thaliana)


10/2001
Successfully passed “Deutschen Sprachprüfung für den Hochschulzugang für ausländische Studienbewerber“ (DSH, german language test for foreign study applicants) at the University of Tübingen


10/2000 – 09/2001
Participated in an exchange programm between the University of Tübingen and the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul. Participated in exercises and lectures. Took german classes (up to advanced levels)


04 – 09 /2000
Scholarship of the Research Foundation of the State of Rio Grande do Sul (FAPERGS)


03/1999 - 02/2000
Scholarship of National Council for Research and Development (CNPq)

07/1997 - 08/2000
Studies of Biology at the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul in (PUCRS), Porto Alegre, Brazil.



Publikations

• KOTTKE, I., BECK, A., HAUG, I., SETARO, S., JESKE, V., SUÁREZ, J. P., PAXMIŇO, L., PREUßING, M., NEBEL, M. & OBERWINKLER, F., 2008. Mycorrhizal state and new and special features of mycorrhizae of trees, ericads, orchids, ferns and liverworts. In: BECK, E., et al (Ed.), Gradients in a Tropical Mountain Ecosystem of Ecuador. Serie Ecological Studies 198, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, pp. 137-148.