Werdegang

VITAE

• Since July 2020
  Researcher in the project "A Social-Ecological Approach to Enhance Tree Diversity in Farmland with Application to a Cultural Landscape in Ethiopia" German Federal Environmental Foundation (Deutsche Bundesstiftung Umwelt - DBU), Social-Ecological Systems Institute (SESI), Faculty of sustainability, Leuphana University Lüneburg

• August 2019-June 2020
  Attended German Language Course (A2, B1 and Berufssprachkurs B2) at Volkshochschule (vhs) REGION Lüneburg but discontinued due to COVID-19

• June 2015-August 2019
  Research Associate and PhD Student within the project "Identifying social-ecological system properties benefitting biodiversity and food security" funded by the European Research Council, Institute of Ecology, Faculty of sustainability, Leuphana University Lüneburg, Germany. Principal investigator: Prof. Dr. Joern Fischer

• December 2013-December 2014
  Senior Forest and Landscape Advisor SFLA) within project “Wild Coffee/biodiversity Conservation- participatory forest management” at South-West Forest and Landscape Groupings (SWFLG) and Ethio-Wetlands and Natural Resources Association

• February 2010-December 2013
  Assistant Researcher within different forestry and agroforestry research projects at different research centres of Ethiopian Institute of Agricultural Research (EIAR), Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

• July 2007-December 2009
  Masters of Science (M.Sc.) Degree student in Tropical Forestry and Management at Technical University of Dresden, Institute of International Forestry and Forest Products, Tharandt, Germany. Awarded DAAD Scholarship for two months German language preparatory course and M.Sc. study at TU- Dresden

• December 2004-July 2007
  Junior Researcher in Forestry and Agroforestry research department at EIAR

• October 2001-July 2004
  Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) Degree student at Forestry, Debub University, Wondo Genet College of Forestry, Ethiopia

• May 2000-October 2001
  Research Technical Assistant in Forestry and Agroforestry research department at EIAR

• October 1996-May 2000
  Research Technical Assistant in Forestry and Agroforestry research department at Oromia Agricultural Research Institute

• November 1994-June 1996
  Diploma student in Forestry at Wondo Genet College of Forestry, Ethiopia