Teaching

I enjoy teaching! To date, I have taught and instructed on over nine different university-level courses. Currently, I am:

  • Co-lead: “Biodiversity from Species to Landscape Scale – Concepts and Methods in Spatial Ecology and Remote Sensing” (EEE334, formerly UWW250) at the University of Zurich, which I co-designed with Gabriela Schaepman-Strub. We share the course administration, planning, lectures, practicals and computer labs.
  • Instructor: “Earth System Modelling” (ESS416) at the University of Zurich, where I instruct on programming and facilitate the computer labs.

Topics taught in the past included population and community ecology, conservation science, science outreach (University of Edinburgh), as well as quantitative and spatial skills (Aarhus University).

“[My favourite things] were the examples today […] they helped me think outside the box […]”
“the ‘draw your own movement’ [exercise] really helped [me] realise how difficult it is to decide on your [study’s] scale”
“I learned how cool works you can do with tracking animals. I decided to study further about this subject after the course”
Student feedback from “minute papers”
UWW250, University of Zurich, 2022

Certified higher-education teaching

In 2023, I completed the “Teaching Skills” course (210 h, 7 ECTS) at the University of Zurich’s Center for Continued Education. The course was tremendous fun and allowed me to gain solid foundations in learning and teaching theory, learn new skills, obtain peer-feedback and critically reflect on my teaching.

Supervision of research students

To date, I have supervised (n = 1) and co-supervised (n = 6) research students (Bachelor, Masters and PhD) and provided informal support and contributions for multiple student-lead research projects (n = 7).

Current and former students:

Franca Scherrer – Bachelor’s student (co-supervisor) University of Zurich (2025-ongoing)
Cenigz Akandil – PhD student (project contribution) University of Zurich (2024-ongoing)
Patrick Byron Angst – Master’s student (co-supervisor) University of Zurich (2024-ongoing)

Nils Rietze – PhD student (co-supervisor) University of Zurich (2022-2025)
Calum Hoad – PhD student (co-lead) University of Edinburgh (2022-2025)

Marie-Lou Pijnenburg – Master’s student (lead supervisor), University of Zurich & ETH Zurich (2023)

Jesper Borre Pedersen – PhD student (project contribution), Aarhus University (2019-2023)
Jonathan von Oppen – PhD student (project support), Aarhus University (2019-2022)
Olliver Baines – PhD student (project contribution), Nottingham University (2019-2022)
Candice Power – PhD student (project support), Aarhus University (2019-2022)
Isabel Eischeid – PhD student (project contribution), University of Tromsø (2018-2021)

Rasmus Attrup – Bachelor’s student (co-supervisor), Aarhus University (2019)
Alejandro Corregidor Castro – Internship (co-supervisor), Aarhus University (2019)

Arabella Kennard – Master’s student (co-supervisor), University of Edinburgh (2017)