Since 2014 Group lead Animal Health of the Department of Livestock Science of the Research Institute of Organic Agriculture (FiBL, CH) with the main focus on preventive veterinary medicine including reduction of antibiotic input as well as the preventive and therapeutic use of medicinal plants and natural products in livestock.
1998 - recent in the beginning PhD student, since 2002 researcher and since 2006 senior researcher at the Department of Livestock Science of the Research Institute of Organic Agriculture (FiBL, CH)
Training
2012 certificate of qualification in veterinary phytotherapy (“Fähigkeitsausweis Veterinärphytotherapie GST”) of the Swiss Veterinary Society
2006 doctoral thesis at the Vetsuisse Faculty of the University of Zurich (CH)
1998 approbation as veterinarian at the University of Veterinary Medicine Hannover (DE)
992 - 1998 education in veterinary medicine at the University of Veterinary Medicine Hannover (DE)
