Dolloidraco Longedorsalis Original Illustration In “Fishes Of The Southern Ocean” 

watercolour on paper

My lovely mum - because I missed german mother´s day. It´s great to have a new chance with the french one. Mummy, you won´t read this, but I really love you.

Passiflora caerulea watercolour illustration  This beautiful blue passionflower plant grew right in front of our tent in France - what a good time that was! 

Setting Sails - a clever man once said that a ship is always safe in the harbor, but this is not what it was built for. This is the logo I designed for a TEDx event about a year ago, back when I didn't realize that I myself would be setting sails so very soon. Leaving home never got any easier for me, but is so exciting, enriching and reminds me of where I really belong. 

based on a photo by Malte Jäger  watercolour on paper 

Hippos vs. Cows  This semester at uni I got to work on a topic completely new to me and so exciting - hippos! Who would have thought that hippos are actually quite the ecosystem engineers? The amount of organic matter these herbivores transport to rives and lakes is quite impressive, and the fact that their population is in danger is really not good news for the aquatic food chain and everybody who depends on it. The simultaneous explosion of cattle herds in Africa is another factor that complicates the matter - considering only the cows’ methane emissions really misses a large part of the picture! I think its so fascinating to see how the theoretical science you study as a student finally gets applied and produces meaningful data in the field - in this case people used C and N isotopic data to trace hippo/cow input into and along the food chain. 

“Denk nicht daran, wieviel zu tun ist, welche Schwierigkeiten zu bewältigen sind oder welches Ziel erreicht werden soll, sondern widme dich gewissenhaft der kleinen Aufgabe die gerade ansteht, und lass das für heute genügen.” (Sir William Osler

denmark - rainy days