Sarah is a doctoral researcher at the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research at the Department of Physiological Diversity in Leipzig, Germany. Her research interest focuses on seed and seedling traits and their effect on grassland plant diversity in relation to land-use intensity. She studied Environmental Sciences with a specialization on Biodiversity and Ecosystems in a Double Degree Master Studies at the University of Copenhagen (2018-2019) and the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna (2017-2018). She studied Geo-ecology during her Undergraduate Studies at the University of Bayreuth, Germany (2014-2017).
Besides her studies, she continuously was engaged in oikos matters striving to be a part of the change for a more sustainable world, first as a part of oikos Bayreuth (2015 – 2017), later as a member of oikos Vienna (2017-2018) and last as a board member of oikos international (2018-2019).