Education and experience

Assistant Professor Since 2022 University of Memphis, USA
Postdoctoral researcher 2018 – 2022 Groningen Institute for Evolutionary Life Sciences, Netherlands
PhD 2014 – 2018 Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz, Germany
Master of Science in Biology 2012 – 2014 Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz, Germany
Bachelor of Science in Biology 2009 – 2012 Bielefeld University, Germany

Funding

2021 Postdoc fellowship of the German Research Foundation Travel grant by the Uyttenboogaart-Eliasen Stichting for joining the IUSSI 2022

2019 Postdoc fellowship of the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina Research grant by the Dobberke Foundation for Comparative Psychology Title: The origin of complex social life: evidence for a socio-circadian ground plan?

2018 Shortterm postdoc fellowship of the German Academic Exchange Service

2016 Huyck research grant of the Edmund Niles Huyck Preserve Title: Genetic and epigenetic regulation of division of labor in social insects

2015 Huyck research grant of the Edmund Niles Huyck Preserve Title: The genetic basis of behavioral coevolution and division of labor

2013 Deutschlandstipendium

2012 RISE fellowship for a summer internship at the Illinois State University of the German Academic Exchange Service

2011 Deutschlandstipendium