Personal details
PLACE/DATE OF BIRTH: Solingen/April 22, 1975
NATIONALITY: German
Education and qualifications
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS:
Societies: European Ichthyological Society (Member), German Ichthyological Society (President)
HABILITATION AND VENIA LEGENDI FOR ZOOLOGY at Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn: Mechanismen Adaptiver Radiation: Sonnenstrahlfische als Modellsystem, mit Beiträgen zur Exploration der Ichthyofauna Sulawesis
DOCTOR'S DEGREE: “Diversity and Evolution of the sailfin silversides (Atheriniformes: Telmatherinidae) species-flock in the Malili Lakes of Central Sulawesi (Indonesia), with focus on Lake Matano” (Bonn; summa cum laude).
DIPLOMA DEGREE: “Zoogeography and Ecology of Central Vietnamese Freshwater Fishes” (Bonn)
Positions
06.2017-present: Head of the Centre of Taxonomy and Evolutionary Research at ZFMK
07.2014-present: Head of Vertebrata Dept. at ZFMK
03.2008-present: Curator and Head of Ichthyology Section at ZFMK
08.2006-02.2008: Postdoctoral Researcher with U. K. Schliewen (ZSM, Munich): “Biodiversity and speciation in telmatherinid fishes of the Malili-Lake-System (Indonesia)” (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft)
Professional Experience
EDITORIAL/REFEREE DUTIES:
Editorial Board “Bonn zoological Bulletin”
Editorial Board “Raffles Bulletin of Zoology”
Referee for various journals and funding organizations (mostly on fish speciation / morphology / ecology / taxonomy / population genetics)