Since 2012 Scientific collaborator at the Department of Livestock Sciences FiBL
2007 - 2011 PhD thesis on the use of secondary plant compounds (saponins) as feed additive for Nile tilapia, University of Hohenheim, StuttgartGermany
1999 - 2006 MSc. In biology at the University of Bremen, Germany (emphasis on: marine biology, zoology and ecology). Master thesis at the Department of Ichthyology and Fisheries Science (DIFS), Grahamstown, South Africa
Teaching
ZHAW (since 2012) and HAFL (since 2017): FBA-aquaculture courses
Uni Hohenheim (since 2019): introductory course tropical aquaculture