Curriculum
Brief scientific career
since 04/2021
Research Officer at the Leibniz Institute for the Analysis of Biodiversity Change - Directorate Staff
05/2016 - 03/2021
Scientific coordinator of the research group FOR 2281 (www.so-long.org(link is external)) and Postdoc at the University of Freiburg, Evolutionary Biology & Ecology (AG Korb), Freiburg (Brsg.)
07/2013 - 04/2016
Postdoctoral Fellow (Schlinger) at the Australian National Insect Collection, CSIRO, National Research Collections Australia, Canberra, ACT, Australia
03/2012 - 06/2013
Postdoctoral Fellow (DFG) at the Centre for Molecular Biodiversity Research (zmb), Zool. Research Museum A. Koenig (ZFMK), Bonn
03/2012
Dissertation: Dr. rer. nat. (summa cum laude), Centre for Molecular Biodiversity Research (zmb), Zool. Research Museum A. Koenig (ZFMK), Bonn
2006 - 2012
PhD student at the Centre for Molecular Biodiversity Research (zmb), Zool. Research Museum A. Koenig (ZFMK), Bonn. Ph.D. thesis: Molecular phylogeny and evolution of 'basal hexapods': The "Atelocerata" - A vanishing hypothesis? (DFG priority programme SPP1174 "Deep Metazoan Phylogeny"). Supervisor: Prof. Dr B. Misof. Published online: https://bonndoc.ulb.uni-bonn.de/xmlui/handle/20.500.11811/5363
Memberships
- since 2012: Active founding member & co-coordinator of 1KITE -1K Insect Transcriptome Evolution: coordination, organisation, data analysis, head of the subproject "Basal Hexapods"
- Member of the German Zoological Society
- Member of the Society for Biological Systematics GfBS
- Member of the Alexander-Koenig Society e.V.
Awards and honours
2012: Dissertation: summa cum laude & Dissertation Prize of the Alexander-Koenig Society e.V.