I earned a PhD in Plant Ecology from the University of Basel (Switzerland) in late 2009 and stayed on for a 9-month postdoctoral stint. Following a two-year postdoctoral appointment at the University of Western Australia (2010 – 2012), I took on a full-time permanent position as quantitative ecologist/biostatistician at the New Zealand Forest Research Institute (Scion). In February 2017, I joined AUT as senior lecturer in ecology.