Employment

• 2014 –           | Scientific collaborator (0.8 fte) | Ecological Systems Laboratory, École Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne, Lausanne, CH

 

• 2011 – 2014 | NWO-VENI postdoctoral research fellow |Ecology & Biodiversity, Dept. of Biology, Utrecht University, Utrecht, NL

 

• 2009 – 2011 | Postdoctoral research fellow (ERA, Biodiversity–PEATBOG) | Ecology & Biodiversity, Dept. of Biology, Utrecht University, Utrecht, NL

 

• 2008 – 2009 | Postdoctoral research assistant | School of Geography, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK

 

• 2007 – 2009 | Postdoctoral researcher (0.8fte) & lecturer (0.2fte) |Environmental Sciences, Dept. of Geosciences, Utrecht University, Utrecht, NL

 

 

Education

2003 – 2007 | PhD-student Peatland Conservation

Nature Conservation and Plant Ecology, Wageningen University, Wageningen, NL

Thesis title: Competition between Sphagnum mosses in European raised bogs: the effects of a changing climate.

Advisors: Prof. Dr. Matthijs G.C. Schouten, Dr. Juul Limpens and Prof. Dr. Frank Berendse  

 

 

Grants

• Swiss National Science Foundation project funding grant [2013] Allelochemical arms race in peatlands: the role of polyphenols in aboveground-belowground interactions (SPHAGNOL)

• VENI personal research grant in the Innovational Research Incentives Scheme of the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research, NWO-ALW [2010] Can diversity control peatland carbon sequestration under climate change? An experimental study (€250.000)

• INTERACT Transnational Access program for research at the Abisko Research Station, Sweden [2011] Effects of permafrost thawing on peatland root growth and activity related to plant biodiversity

• Dutch foundation for the conservation of Irish bogs [2004-2006] | The competition between Sphagnum species in Irish bogs; € 6k; 2010 | PEATBOG: Floristic diversity in relation to biogeochemical factors and N cycling across gradients in N deposition and climate; € 1.5k; 2012 | Influence of frost on the carbon cycle in an alpine raised bog; € 1k; 2013 | The Global Sphagnum Production Project ; € 1.5k

• DEFRA, United Kingdom [2008-2009] Ecosystem services of peat (co-applicant)

 

Prizes

• ​École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), 'prime special' for outstanding services

• 1st prize best scientific publication 2010 Scientific Journals. Centre for Ecosystems, Wageningen University. Breeuwer A, Heijmans MMPD, Robroek BJM & Berendse F. Ecosystems 13 (5): 712-726

• 2nd prize best scientific publication 2009 Scientific Journals. Centre for Ecosystems, Wageningen University. Robroek BJM et al. 2009, Global Change Biology 15 (3): 680-691

 

Academic activities

EDITORIAL BOARD

•     Frontiers in Environmental Science (review editor)

•     Data contributor, TRY Initiative (plant trait database)

 

AD HOC REVIEWER FOR ACADEMIC JOURNALS

Nature Communications, Global Change Biology, New Phytologist, Journal of Ecology, Journal of Applied Ecology, Functional Ecology, Oikos, Oecologia, Ecosystems, Plant and Soil, Environmental and Experimental Botany, Journal of Vegetation Science, Applied Vegetation Science, Boreal Environment Research, Ecohydrology, Aquatic Botany, Plant Ecology, Plant Species Biology, Botany, Climatic Change, Polar Biology, Folia Geobotanica, Wetlands, Ecology and Evolution, Land, Wetland Ecology and Management, Journal of Geophysical Research–Biogeosciences, Freshwater Science, Mires and Peat, Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, European Journal of Soil Biology, Biogeochemistry

 

AD HOC REVIEWER FOR FUNDING ORGANIZATIONS

•     British Ecological Society – Small research grants | 2016

•     BARD – The US–Israel Agricultural Research & Development Fund | 2016

•     Estonian Research Council (ETAg) | 2015

•     Postdoctoral funding programme P.R.I.M.E. (Postdoctoral Researchers International Mobility Experience), German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) | 2015

•     National Research Network for Low Carbon Energy and the Environment | 2014

•     Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) postgraduate research awards | 2009-2013

 

CONFERENCES

•     Co-organizer 1st International symposium on Carbon in Peatlands, Wageningen, NL | 2007.

•     Co-convener symposium session Microbial ecology -From species richness to functional biodiversity, Netherlands Annual Ecology Meeting  | 2013.

•     Co-convener symposium session C and N cycles. Rhizosphere 4, Maastricht, The Netherlands| June 2015.