About me

Salut,

My name is Pia Backmann, and I started working as a Postdoc at the Chair of Forest Biometry and Forest Systems Analysis in May 2018.

I am a physicist and ecologist by training and most of the time I do research as a modeler a the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research – UFZ -in Leipzig (http://www.ufz.de) and at the TU Dresden (Chair of Forest Biometry and Forest Systems Analysis, Tharandt).

My main focus is forest modelling, especially Monodominance in tropical forests.

Recently, I have written a book. If you are interested in alternative high fantasy stories, then see here 🙂

That's me, Pia Backmann
Welcome to my Blog! (photo by rech-friends.de)

EDUCATION

  • May 2018: Postdoc in the Forest Modelling group of Prof. Uta Berger (TU Dresden)
  • June 2017: Postdoc in the Theory in Biodiversity Science group
  • July 2013 – March 2017: Working as a PhD student at the iDiv (Advisors: Prof. Dr. Volker Grimm (UFZ Leipzig) and Prof. Dr. Ian T. Baldwin (MPI CE Jena)
  • March 2011: Diploma thesis in computational theoretical physics, title “Agent Based Simulations of Bat’s competitive Foraging” (Advisors: Prof. Alexander K. Hartmann and Prof. Dr. Georg Klump)
  • 2004-2011: Diploma studies of physics, Carl von Ossietzky University Oldenburg (minor subjects: biology and computer studies and photovoltaics)

WORK
June 2011-July 2013: Renewable energy grid integration, Moeller Operating Engineering (Validation of computer models of solar inverters and wind turbines, testing grid compatibility of solar plants, developing software in DPL and Matlab)

CONTACT ME:

Pia Backmann
backmann.pia@googlemail.de