about

On this website, I share my interest in bats and the plants they pollinate, along with photographs, videos and experiences from my research and conservation work.

I work as a species conservation consultant in Germany and have a passion for bats, from European species to the flower-visiting bats of the Americas. I also cultivate a wide variety of bat-pollinated plants. On this website, I share my projects, experiences and knowledge, as well as my enthusiasm for bats and species conservation.

During my doctoral research at Ulm University, I studied social learning in nectar-feeding bats of the genus Glossophaga, with fieldwork in Costa Rica and Panama. My experiments explored how young bats learn about food, including the potential role of mouth-to-mouth feeding between mothers and their pups. 

I also developed artificial flowers equipped with RFID readers to study the foraging behaviour of mothers and their recently volant pups, and investigated how adult bats learn to use unfamiliar flowers.

Photographs, videos and accounts of this research are part of the website, alongside insights into my current work and the cultivation of bat-pollinated plants.