Research interest
I started to look at the sky differently since i started to use radar devices to monitor animal movement in the air space. Not only are the numbers of flying birds, bats, and insects using air space huge, but it is also fascinating to understand how they move and interact with their environment. My research focuses on understanding how environmental factors influence the migratory movements in order to better predict when, where and how many birds are migrating. This knowledge can be used to mitigate collision risks of birds with human infrastructures such as buildings or wind turbines.
Grant aquisition
2023 SNF Scientific Exchange
2023-2026 Migratlane (partner, Office Francaise de la Biodiversité)
2022-2024 Semafor (co-applicant, ADEME, Agence de la Transition Ecologique)
2021-2023 MigraLion (partner, Office Francaise de la Biodiversité)
2016-2022 GloBAM (co-applicant, BiodivERsA ERA-Net COFUND, 31BD30_184120)
Supervision
PhD thesis: Hirschhofer S. (2022 – present), Aurbach A. (2016-2021)
MSc thesis: Carrard T. (2022), Hirschhofer S. (2020), Xu Shi 师旭 (2018), Tschanz T. (2018)
BSc thesis: Grognuz V. (2017)
Teaching
I teach on Avian Biology (10565-01) at the Universitiy of Basel.
Membership
Groupe de Recherche en Ecologie Arctique GREA [http://www.grearctique.org/]
