Simon Drollinger

Short CV

Academic Positions

since 2025
Postdoctoral Researcher at the Department of Bioclimatology, University of Göttingen

2019 – 2025
Assistant Professor at the Department of Physical Geography, University of Göttingen

2018 – 2019
Postdoctoral Researcher at the Department of Forest Ecology and Management, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Umeå, Sweden

2014 – 2018
Pre-doctoral Researcher, Working Group Geoecology, Department of Geography and Regional Research, University of Vienna, Austria

2010 – 2013
Research Assistant in the Laboratory of Soil Sciences and Geoecology, University of Tübingen

2009 – 2010
Research Assistant at the Chair of Economic Geography and Regional Studies, University of Tübingen

Education

PhD (Dr. rer. nat.) in Geoecology, University of Vienna, 2019

Thesis title: Carbon fluxes and peat decomposition of Alpine peat bogs in the Enns valley, Austria

Master of Science in Landscape System Sciences / Physical Geography, University of Tübingen, 2014

Thesis title: Nutrient cycling of an alpine treeline ecotone in Rolwaling Himal, Nepal

Bachelor of Science in Geography, University of Tübingen, 2011

Thesis title: Interrelations between soil properties, successional stages and biodiversity in a subtropical forest ecosystem, SE China