Employment history

01/06/2011 – 31/05/2012:   

Feodor-Lynen-Postdoctoral Fellow at Yale University, New Haven (USA) funded by Alexander von Humboldt-Foundation;

Project: “Ontogeny (development) of half a billion years old fossil species from the Burgess Shale – A key to the evolutionary history of arthropods”

01/04/2011 – 31/05/2011:   

Research assistant (Postdoc) at the University of Ulm

01/04/2008 – 31/03/2011:   

Research assistant (2 years Postdoc, 1 year PhD student) at the University of Ulm;

Project “Cambrian arthropods and their contribution to the phylogeny of Arthropoda“ funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG Wa 754/15-1)

01/12/2007 – 31/03/2008:   

Research assistant (PhD student) at the University of Ulm

01/12/2005 – 31/11/2007:   

Research assistant (PhD student) in DFG-SPP 1174 “Deep Metazoan Phylogeny“ (DFG Wa 738/11-1) at the University of Ulm

Academic education

09/02/2009:   

PhD with highest honour (summa cum laude); title of dissertation: “Arthropod Ontogeny – Fossil Record of Development and 4-Dimensional Data (Morphological Changes during Ontogeny) in Phylogenetic Systematics“

20/02/2006:   

Start of PhD project at the workgroup for Biosystematic Documentation, University of Ulm; supervisor: Prof. Dr. D. Waloßek

31/08/2005:   

Receipt of diploma certificate; mark 1.25 (A); title of diploma thesis: “Effects of training on the flight musculature of insects exemplified on the European beewolf Philanthus triangulum (Hymenoptera: Crabronidae)“; supervisor: Prof. Dr. E. Strohm

1999 – 2005:   

Studies of biology (Diplom) at the Julius-Maximilians-University Würzburg

Main subject: Animal ecology and tropical biology

1st subsidiary subject: Behavioural physiology and sociobiology

2nd subsidiary subject: Palaeontology

01/10/1998 – 27/01/1999:   

Studies of biochemistry at the University of Bielefeld


Scholarships, awards etc.

2012   

- R.J.H. Hintelmann Scientific Award of the "Freunde der Zoologischen Staatssammlung München e.V." (5000 €)



2011    

- Horst-Wiehe-Award of the German Zoological Society (2000 €)

- Feodor Lynen Research Fellowship for postdoctoral researchers of the Alexander von Humboldt-Foundation (43,000 €)

2009    

- Tilly-Edinger-Award of the German Palaeontological Society (2500 €)
- Bernhard-Rensch-Award of the Society for Biological Systematics (1000 €)
- PhD with summa cum laude

2008    

- EU-Synthesys scholarship (GB-TAF-4733) for two research weeks at the Natural History Museum in London (7800 €)

- Travel expenses for beamtime at synchrotron BESSY, Berlin (250 €)

2007

- Start-up funding of the Rudolf and Clothilde Eberhardt-Foundation (5000 €)

- Travel expenses for beamtime at synchrotron BESSY, Berlin (250 €)

2006    

- EU-Synthesys scholarship (DK-TAF-2652) for three research weeks at the Zoological Museum in Copenhagen (2400 €)

Research visits

01/06/2011 – 31/05/2012:

Research visit to D.E.G. Briggs, Yale University and Peabody Museum, New Haven


21/02/2012 – 24/02/2012:  

Visit to the palaeontological collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History, Washington, D.C.

05/12/2011 – 09/12/2011:  

Visit to the palaeontological collection of the Field Museum, Chicago


24/06/2011 – 07/09/2011:  

Visit to the palaeontological collection of the ROM, Toronto

31/10/2010 – 01/11/2010:    

Visit to the palaeontological collection of the Museum am Schölerberg, Osnabrück

16/11/2009 – 19/11/2009:    

Visit to the palaeontological collections of H. Kerp and at the LWL-Museum für Naturkunde, Münster

17/08/2009:

Visit to the palaeontological collection of the Naturhistorisches Museum, Basel

09/06/2009 – 19/06/2009:    

Visit to the palaeontological collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History, Washington, D.C.

01/06/2009 – 08/06/2009:    

Visit to the palaeontological collection of the ROM, Toronto

03/03/2009:

Visit to the palaeontological collection of the Museum für Naturkunde, Berlin

12/01/2009 – 23/01/2009:   

EU-Snthesys visit (GB-TAF-4733) to the palaeontological collection of the NHM, London

07/11/2008:

Visit to the Bavarian State Collection of Palaeontology and Geology, München

05/08/2008 – 07/08/2008, 14/02/2008 – 17/02/2008:   

BESSY (synchrotron-micro-X-ray tomograph), Berlin

21/03/2007 – 11/04/2007:

EU-Snthesys visit (DK-TAF-2652) to the crustacean collections of the Zoological Museum, Copenhagen

12/06/2006 – 30/06/2006:   

Visit to the crustacean collections of the Zoological Museum in Copenhagen

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