Experience

Scion

• New Zealand
• Research Services
• 300 - 400 Employee

• Project Delivery Manager

  • Aug 2021 - Present

• Operational Leader, Forest Genetics / Forest Informatics

  • Jul 2020 - Oct 2021

• Scientist, Forest Genetics, Quantitative and Molecular Genetics

  • Sep 2018 - Jul 2020

  Tree selection and breeding: Improvement of tree growth, form, resistance to pests and diseases, and wood quality. We use a combination of phenotyping, genotyping and genetic selection techniques to develop breeding programmes to develop traits that are of commercial value to the forest industry. These include gene mapping and DNA fingerprinting, molecular breeding and genomic selection.

• Senior Technician Molecular Genetics

  • May 2017 - Sep 2018

  Forest Genetics Team



Manaaki Whenua - Landcare Research

• New Zealand
• Research Services
• 200 - 300 Employee

• Ecological Geneticist, Biodiversity and Conservation

  • Jan 2011 - May 2017

  Senior Research Technician (Ecological Geneticist) within the Biodiversity and Conservation Research Team at Landcare Research in Lincoln, Canterbury, New Zealand:Molecular laboratory and field work in plant conservation biology and weed biology; project leader and co-leader of several ongoing projects; Customer care and molecular identification of plant material as part of Ecogene® (DNA-based diagnostic services for biosecurity and biodiversity); Supervision of trainees and technicians in the Molecular Laboratory



University of Canterbury

• New Zealand
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Research Associate Chemical and Process Engineering

  • May 2010 - Dec 2010

  ‚Selective extraction of wood components with ionic liquids‘ ‚Selective extraction of wood components with ionic liquids‘



University of Erlangen-Nuremberg

• PhD student Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

  • Sep 2006 - Jan 2010

  ‘Novel peptides controlling Tet repressor-based gene regulation’ ‘Novel peptides controlling Tet repressor-based gene regulation’