Awards and Scholarships
2018: Nominated for Potsdam's Junior Researcher Award 2018
2018: Travel stipend by the Alexander Koenig Gesellschaft to give a talk at Evolution2018 in Montpellier, France
2017: DAAD travel grant for the attendance of the Annual Meeting of the Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution 2017 (SMBE2017) in Austin, Texas
2017: Participation grant for the Annual Meeting of the Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution 2017 (SMBE2017) Austin, Texas
2015: SIAL travel grant “Speciation in Ancient Lakes 7“ (SIAL7) Windsor, Canada
2014: 1st Price for the best student oral presentation at the Annual Meeting of the German Society for Ichthyology (GFI) Stralsund, Germany
2013: Price for the 2nd best student oral presentation at the Annual Meeting of the German Society for Ichthyology (GFI) Bonn, Germany
2011: Scholarship DAAD RISE Worldwide to support an international research internship at Neuroscience Research Australia, Sydney (Australia)
Professional Experience
Since 02/2018: Postdoc in the third party (Leibniz Association) funded project “Adaptive Genomics of Sulawesi ricefishes“ at Zoologisches Forschungsmuseum Alexander Koenig, Bonn.
08/2016 – 09/2017: Section officer deputy for “Life Sciences” in the Leibniz PhD Network
05/2016 – 02/2018: PhD representative at the Museum für Naturkunde – Leibniz Institute for Evolution and Biodiversity Science
04/2016 – 06/2016: Fieldwork in Indonesia – collection of aquatic invertebrates in Java (Indonesia) as part of the INDOBIOSYS project
01/2016 – 02/2018: Research assistant in the third party (German Federal Ministry of Education and Research) funded project “Indonesian Biodiversity Discovery and Information System (INDOBIOSYS)“ at the Museum für Naturkunde – Leibniz Institute for Evolution and Biodiversity Science
01/2015 – 12/2015: Research assistant in the third party (German Research Foundation) funded project “The genetic basis of a morphological key trait: radula genes and the adaptive radiation of the freshwater snail Tylomelania” at the Museum für Naturkunde – Leibniz Institute for Evolution and Biodiversity Science
05/2013 – 11/2014: Student assistant working as teacher in the School_Lab of the German Aerospace Center (DLR) in Cologne
02/2013 – 05/2014: Internship at the ichthyological section of the Zoological Research Museum Alexander Koenig (ZFMK). Focus: Adaptive radiation, sexual selection and color polymorphism of Telmatherina antoniae “small“
03/2011 – 09/2011: Internship with immunohistological focus, investigating localization of copper transporters in the human brain at Neuroscience Research Australia (NeuRa), Sydney (Australia)
