Biography
Professional experience
Universität Hamburg, Germany, Research Unit Sustainability and Global Change (2012-to date)
Recognized Researcher (R2)
• Head of ecological modelling group of the research unit
• Independent development of pest/pesticide submodel for crop model
• Collaboration with economists on integrated assessments
• (Co-)supervisor of several Ph.D. and master students
Ohio State University, Ohio Agricultural Research and Development Center, Wooster, USA (04-07/2018)
Visiting Scientist
• Coupling of insect life cycle model GILSYM with the EPIC crop model. Testing and validation of coupled model against field trial data.
Texas A&M University, Blackland Research Center, Temple, USA (04/2016)
Visiting Scientist
• Further development and integration of own pest/pesticide submodel in EPIC/APEX crop models
ETH Zurich, Switzerland, Department of Environmental Sciences, Chair of Forest Ecology (12/08-12/11 )
First Stage Researcher (R1)
• Independent development of management submodel for forest model
• Collaboration with forest engineers on submodel testing/validation
• Co-supervisor of master thesis
University of Hohenheim, Germany, Department of Soil Sciences (03/2007)
First Stage Researcher (R1)
• Analysis of N2O emissions from soil samples
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Education
ETH Zurich, Switzerland, Department of Environmental Sciences, Chair of Forest Ecology (2008-2011 )
Dr. sc. nat. ETH Zurich, Thesis title: „Bridging the gap between forest growth and forest succession models“
ETH Zurich, Switzerland, Institute of Cartography and Geoinformation (2009-2010)
Certificate of Advanced Studies in Geospatial Information Systems
University Tübingen, Germany (2001-2006)
Diploma studies geoecology
• Diploma examinations in Economic Geography, Physiology and Environmental Geochemistry
• Diploma thesis: “Woods of the evergreen laurel forest of the Canary Islands examined by cuticular analysis and morphology and their relation to Neogene forests of Europe”
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Other working/teaching experience
Instructor in recurring course "Modelling impacts, adaptation, and mitigation of climate change and climate variability on argriculture"
Contributions to lecture series “Coupled climate economic models” and “Climate economics” (since 2012)
Assistant-supervisor in the "Interdisciplinary project" of the Institute of Terrestrial Ecosystems at ETH Zurich (2011)
Freelance science journalist (2007-2008)
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Awards
ASABE superior paper award for paper Rasche, L. & R. A. J. Taylor (2017). "A pest submodel for use in integrated assessment models." - Transactions of the ASABE, 60(1): 147-158
Prize for best Climate System Model, awarded by CliSAP excellence cluster (01/2016)
Best Poster Award, Swiss Global Change Day 2011, Berne.