Experience

SimplexDNA AG

• Chief Science Officer | Science Advisor

  • Aug 2022 - Present

  Developing science strategy, forging global partnerships, and leading investment conversations to operationalise planetary scale biodiversity monitoring. Supporting cutting-edge climate and biodiversity startups as Science Advisor and treasury member of Celo's Climate Collective. Developing science strategy, forging global partnerships, and leading investment conversations to operationalise planetary scale biodiversity monitoring. Supporting cutting-edge climate and biodiversity startups as Science Advisor and treasury member of Celo's Climate Collective.



Université de Neuchâtel

• Switzerland
• Higher Education
• 400 - 500 Employee

• Senior Scientist

  • Sep 2021 - Present

  Co-initiator of the Earth Metabolome Initiative - a data-driven movement to profile all of the small molecules found in every species on Earth. Leader of a global research initiative to leverage metabolomics to capture plant functional diversity. Modernising Swiss national biodiversity monitoring with remote sensing, multi-omics, and big data. Contributor to national and international biodiversity policy frameworks. Guest Editor for a 2021 Special Feature in Journal of Ecology. Co-initiator of the Earth Metabolome Initiative - a data-driven movement to profile all of the small molecules found in every species on Earth. Leader of a global research initiative to leverage metabolomics to capture plant functional diversity. Modernising Swiss national biodiversity monitoring with remote sensing, multi-omics, and big data. Contributor to national and international biodiversity policy frameworks. Guest Editor for a 2021 Special Feature in Journal of Ecology.



ETH Zürich

• Switzerland
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Senior Scientist

  • Jan 2019 - Jul 2021

  Resolving climate change effects on mountain soils by consolidating a global network of 18 experiments. Revealed >100% errors in ecosystem predictions using decadal-scale field experiments, predictive models and statistics. Helped develop a tool to predict hotspots of landscape phytochemical diversity from metabolomics and machine learning. Taught quantitative approaches to ~50 MSc students. Supervised 3 MSc projects. Co-supervised 2 PhD projects. Resolving climate change effects on mountain soils by consolidating a global network of 18 experiments. Revealed >100% errors in ecosystem predictions using decadal-scale field experiments, predictive models and statistics. Helped develop a tool to predict hotspots of landscape phytochemical diversity from metabolomics and machine learning. Taught quantitative approaches to ~50 MSc students. Supervised 3 MSc projects. Co-supervised 2 PhD projects.



University of Lausanne - UNIL

• Switzerland
• Research Services
• 700 & Above Employee

• Senior Scientist

  • Jan 2018 - Dec 2018

  Investigating mountain climate feedbacks by warming and reshuffling plant plus soil communities. Leader and keynote speaker of one of five Thematic Sessions at the 2019 British Ecology Society meeting. Taught quantitative approaches to ~150 BSc students. Supervised 2 MSc projects. Co-supervised 2 PhD student projects. Investigating mountain climate feedbacks by warming and reshuffling plant plus soil communities. Leader and keynote speaker of one of five Thematic Sessions at the 2019 British Ecology Society meeting. Taught quantitative approaches to ~150 BSc students. Supervised 2 MSc projects. Co-supervised 2 PhD student projects.



EPFL (École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne)

• Switzerland
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Postdoctoral Scientist

  • Jan 2017 - Dec 2017

  Discovered a large (+52%) alpine climate feedback using field/lab experiments, two-pool mixing-models and statistics. Taught multivariate statistics to ~30 MSc students. Discovered a large (+52%) alpine climate feedback using field/lab experiments, two-pool mixing-models and statistics. Taught multivariate statistics to ~30 MSc students.



University of Vienna

• Austria
• Research Services
• 700 & Above Employee

• Postdoctoral Scientist

  • Jun 2015 - Dec 2016

  Constrained mechanisms of soil climate feedbacks using decadal-scale field experiments, new lab methods, process-based models and statistics. Promoted coding literacy in ~10 PhD/MSc students by leading an R bootcamp. Mentored 1 MSc project. Constrained mechanisms of soil climate feedbacks using decadal-scale field experiments, new lab methods, process-based models and statistics. Promoted coding literacy in ~10 PhD/MSc students by leading an R bootcamp. Mentored 1 MSc project.



National Trust

• United Kingdom
• Non-profit Organizations
• 700 & Above Employee

• Nature Reserve Coordinator

  • Oct 2009 - Sep 2011

  Harmonised social, cultural, economic and conservation interests in the Yorkshire Dales National Park by creating and maintaining a network of 33 organisations. Protected 2 National Nature Reserves by writing management plans and running projects. Secured the future of a globally important fen habitat by designing and funding a ~£100k restoration project. Harmonised social, cultural, economic and conservation interests in the Yorkshire Dales National Park by creating and maintaining a network of 33 organisations. Protected 2 National Nature Reserves by writing management plans and running projects. Secured the future of a globally important fen habitat by designing and funding a ~£100k restoration project.