About me
I am an evolutionary biologist using computational approaches to investigate questions in evolution, genomics, and epigenetics. My research focuses particularly on immunogenomics and peptidomics, as well as the genetic and epigenetic diversity of natural populations and the epigenetics of ageing. To address these questions, I combine methods from phylogenetics, molecular evolution, population genetics, genomics, and epigenetics. Below, you can find selected stages of my academic and professional career. For a full CV, please feel free to contact me by email.
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2007-2008
Diploma thesis
Zoology, University of Hamburg
and the Leibniz-Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research (IZW), Berlin, GermanyGenetic variability (MHC and mitochondrial D-Loop) and parasite burden of a neotropical rodent (Euryoryzomys russatus Wagner, 1848) in two fragments of the Atlantic Forest, Brazil
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2008
Research Assistant
FTZ, Research and Technology Centre, University of Kiel, Büsum, Germany
Working on research vessels - "Seabirds at Sea" on Baltic and North Sea
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2009-2014
Doctoral thesis
Salzburger Lab, Evolutionary Biology,
University of Basel, Switzerland:
A multi-marker perspective on the evolutionary history of East African cichlid fishes
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2010, 2015 - NOW
Instructor and/or Co-Organizer
Evomics, Molecular Evolution (2010/2015) and/or Population and Speciation Genomics Workshop (2018-NOW), Cesky Krumlov, Czech Republic
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2010
Co-Director
Organization of Cichlid Science Meeting
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2014-2018
Postdoctoral Researcher
GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel, Germany
(Epi)genomics in Baltic sea populations of the three-spine sticklebacks (BAMBI-Project)
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2018-2022
Postdoctoral Researcher
Tern Epigenetics and Blackcap Island Genomics Max-Planck Institute Behavioral Genomics, Plön, Germany and Guest Scientist at Institute of Avian Research
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2018
Award for the project "Epigenetics of Ageing"
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2019
Organizer
Workshop “Causes and Consequences of Inclusive Inheritance" Max-Planck Institute Behavioral Genomics, Plön, Germany
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2022-now
Computational Biologist
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To be
Continued!
