I grew up on a farm in rural eastern Germany. Feeding sheep, cleaning stables, making hay, hauling wood  - I enjoy being outdoors and doing physical work. Before university in Germany, I spent one year traveling and working on farms in Australia.

During graduate school in Germany I discovered writing and photography as ways to tell stories, raise awareness, and inform. My interest in science communication came about during my Ph.D. research, to bridge academic disciplines and communicate my research to farmers and others. I co-founded the Early Career Climate Network, a professional organization for early-career climate researchers, wrote regular science blogs, hosted a science podcast, and talked with school classes about agriculture and sustainable food production in the face of climate change through Skype A Scientist.

My research took me from Germany to Oklahoma, where I pursued my Ph.D., to Texas, Colorado, and in 2021 eventually back to Germany.

I live in Berlin and am a guest researcher at the Leibniz Centre for Agricultural Landscape Research (ZALF). I am currently transitioning from academic research to professional science communication, science transfer, and environmental education. Local organizations I am involved in include Weltacker Berlin e.V. and ProWissen Potsdam e.V.