Education
2011 PhD in Biology, University of Bonn, Germany
2005 Diploma (MSc equivalent), University of Bonn, Germany
Scientific positions
since 2017 Group leader in the project “AG Ricefish”, Leibniz competition 2017, Zoological Research Museum Koenig, Bonn
2016 – 2017 Maternity leave
2015 – 2016 PostDoc in the group Evolutionary Genetics of Fishes, MPI for Evolutionary Biology, Plön
2014 – 2015 Maternity leave
2013 – 2014 DFG research fellowship holder (PostDoc), Eawag, Kastanienbaum, Switzerland
2012 – 2013 Research assistant (PostDoc), Zoological Research Museum Koenig, Bonn: Margarethe Koenig Award
2011 – 2012 Research assistant (PostDoc), Zoological Research Museum Koenig, Bonn
2007 – 2010 Research assistant in the DFG-project “Patterns and processes of a multiple cichlid diversification along a unique geographical gradient in the Lower Congo River: Are species complexes fluid genomic networks?” (SCHL 567/4, MI 649/8)
Grants
2017 Research group “AG-Ricefish”, Leibniz Competition 2017 (SAW-2017-ZFMK-4)
2013 DFG research fellowship (SCHW 1690/1-1)
2012 Margarethe Koenig Award, Zoological Research Museum Koenig, Bonn
2009 Travel grant of the Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution
2007 Travel grant of the Alexander Koenig Gesellschaft
2006-2007 Graduate stipend (GEFFRUB) of the University Bonn
2006 Annette Kade graduate stipend, American Museum of Natural History, New York
2006 Travel grant of the American Genetics Association
2005/2006 Travel grant of the Volkswagen foundation