A full CV is available for download here.
Employment
since December 2023
Heisenberg Fellow (non-permanent), Georg-August University, Göttingen, Germany
funded by DFG
November 2021 - November 2023
Group Leader, Georg-August University, Göttingen, Germany
November 2015 - October 2021
Emmy-Noether Group Leader, Georg-August University, Göttingen, Germany
funded by DFG
May 2012 - October 2015
Independent Group Leader, Georg-August University, Göttingen, Germany
funded by Volkswagen Foundation
April 2012
Independent Post-doctoral Research Associate, Georg-August University, Göttingen, Germany
August 2011 – March 2012
Post-doctoral Research Associate, Oxford Brookes University, Oxford, UK
February 2012
Research stay at Harvard University, USA
January 2010 – July 2011
Post-doctoral Research Associate, Vetmeduni Vienna, Austria
September 2009 – December 2009
Post-doctoral Research Associate, Georg-August University, Göttingen, Germany
Education
Dr. rer. nat.
July 2006 – September 2009
Georg-August University, Göttingen, Germany
Grade: summa cum laude
Diploma
October 2001 – June 2006
Georg-August-University Göttingen, Germany
Final Grade: sehr gut
Memberships
- Society for Evolutionary Developmental Biology (EED)
- German Zoological Society (Deutsche Zoologische Gesellschaft) (Speaker of Developmental Biology
Section)
- GOEvol
- Göttingen Graduate School for Neurosciences and Molecular
Biosciences (GGNB)
- JEDI - Junior European Drosophila Investigators
- DrosEU consortium (Work group leader: Trancriptomics and Protein Evolution, with Erich Bornberg)
- Scientific Cluster Representative (“Science & Technology”) of the U4 network
- Program Committee of International Max Planck Research
School for Genome Science (IMPRS-GS)
- Member of the Center for Integrated Breeding Research (CiBreed)
Reviewer for
(Publons Profile)
Development, PloS One, Gene, International Journal of Developmental Neuroscience, Frontiers in Zoology, Journal of Evolutionary Biology, PeerJ, Data in Brief, Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution,
Scientific Reports, Insect Molecular Biology, Development Genes and Evolution, Evolution & Development, Acta Zoologica, Molecular Biology and Evolution, Genome Biology and Evolution,
Bioinformatics
Editor for
- Associate Editor for Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution (section: Evolutionary Developmental Biology)
- Guest Editor of Special Issue and Topical Collection "Size and Shape" (Development, Genes and Evolution)
- Editor for Development, Genes and Evolution (DGE)
- Editor for Research Topic "Evolution of Postembryonic Development" in Frontiers in Ecology and
Evolution/Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology
- Guest Editor for "Molecular Evolution and Functional Bioinformatics of Arthropods" Special Issue in Genes
