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Postdoc phase

01/10/2014 – 30/06/2016:

Research fellow of the Bavarian Equal Opportunities Sponsorship at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (LMU Munich)
 

06/11/2012 – 31/08/2013:

Parental leave

01/06/2012 – 30/11/2012:

Research fellow with return fellowship of the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) at the Ernst Moritz Arndt University of Greifswald (Germany);

Project: "Division of labor in segmented organisms: the evolution of tagmata in Chelicerata"

Academic education

18/01/2023:

Habilitation at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (LMU Munich)

01/06/2011 – 31/05/2012:

Postdoctoral researcher at the workgroup of D.E.G. Briggs, Department of Geology and Geophysics, Yale University, New Haven (USA)

11/04/2011:

PhD with high honour (magna cum laude); title of dissertation: “Head shield evolution and development in the Arthropoda”

14/10/2006 – 06/01/2008:

Parental leave


20/02/2006:

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

24/03/2005:

Receipt of diploma certificate (Master equivalent); grade 1.4
Title of diploma thesis: “Larval ecology and brood biology of the Red Mason bee Osmia bicornis“; supervisor: Prof. Dr. E. Strohm

1999 – 2005:

Studies of biology at the Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg/Germany
Main subject: Animal ecology and tropical biology
1st subsidiary subject: Behavioural physiology and sociobiology
2nd subsidiary subject: Palaeontology

Scholarships, awards, third-party funds

2024

- Grant via the LMUexcellent Investment Fund (49,000 €)

2023

- External funding of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (HA 7066/5-1) for 3 years (266,631 €)

- Beamtime and travel grants at DESY, Hamburg (1,000 €)

2021

- Beamtime and travel grants at DESY, Hamburg (1,000 €)

2019

- LMU award for equal opportunities for women in research (2,244 €)

- Beamtime and travel grants at DESY, Hamburg (1,000 €)

2018

- External funding of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (co-proposer, ME 2683/10-1) for 3 years (184,000 €)

2017

- Grant via the LMUexcellent Junior Researcher Fund (45,000 €)

2016

- External funding of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft for 3 years (HA 7066/3-1) (306,090 €)

- LMU award for equal opportunities for women in research (1200 €)

2015

- LMU scholarship for the Bavarian Equal Opportunities Sponsorship (BGF) (15,660 €)

- BioNa-Junior Scientist Award of the Faculty of Biology, LMU (10,000 €)

- DAAD travel grant (716 €)

2014

- EU-Synthesys scholarship (FR-TAF-5181) for three research weeks at the Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle in Paris (2800 €)

- LMU teaching grant in the BioPlus program together with J.T. Haug (770 €)

- LMU scholarship for the Bavarian Equal Opportunities Sponsorship (BGF) (14,460 €)

- LMU award for equal opportunities for women in research (2200 €)

2013

- EU-Synthesys grant (GB-TAF-4057) for 3 weeks stay at Natural History
Museum, London (6200 €)

- DAAD travel grant (650 €)

2012

- EU-Synthesys grant (DK-TAF-2591) for 2 weeks stay at Zoological Museum, Copenhagen (1600 €)

- DAAD return fellowship (9200 €)

2009

- Travel grant from University of Ulm (500 €)

2007, 2008

- Beamtime and travel grants at synchrotron tomograph BESSY, Berlin

(500 €)

2006

- EU-Synthesys grant (DF-TAF-2171) for 3 weeks stay at Zoological Museum, Copenhagen (2200 €)

1999 – 2005

- Scholarship for Highly Gifted Pupils of the Bavarian State Ministry of Science, Research, and Art (29,000 €)

Publications