Join the lab

You are interested in insect behavior and chemical ecology? You enjoy working with insects and/or bioinformatics? You wanna get hands on research experience?

Great! Get in touch!

Undergraduate students

I have short term projects available that can be run by undergraduate students (See Research for some of the work we are doing) as a BIOL4.000 or as a voluntary research project. Among others, projects can include field work, behavioral experiments, automated tracking, pharmacological manipulations, neurogenetics, and much more and can be done using bees, ants and flies. Training included! Send me an email and let’s have a chat!

Graduate students

If you are interested in doing a master’s or a PhD, send me an email with your CV and a cover letter outlining your research interests and we can have a chat about potential projects and funding opportunities.

All students are welcome!
Funding opportunities

There are mutliple funding opportunities to support your research at different stages of your career and I am always interested in applying for funding. Contact me if you are interested.

Small research grants for early career researchers incl undergraduate students

– Association for the Study of Animal Behaviour

– Society for Behavioral Endocrinology

– Animal Behavior Society

– German Ethological Society

– Neuroethology Research Awards

– Huyck Preserve research grant

– ASN Early Career Investigator Award

– Numerous IUSSI grants

– Eva Crane Trust

– Association of Southeastern Biologists

– SysEB Student Research Travel Award


Funding for graduate students

– NSF – Graduate Research Fellowship Program

– German Academic Exchange Service – Research fellowship

– Society for the Study of Evolution

– Fulbright Commission – PhD program

– Lewis and Clark Fund

– Rosemary Grant Advanced Awards


Postdoc fellowships

– German Academic Exchange Service – Short-term grant

– German Academic Exchange Service – PRIME

– European Union Research Council – MSCA

– German Research Foundation – Walter Benjamin Program

– Dutch Research Council – Rubicon

– Leopoldina Postdoc fellowship

– Human Frontier Science Program

– EMBO postdoc fellowships