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EDUCATION & WORK EXPERIENCE
2023 - ongoing
Biodiversity genomics consultant and implementation
2022 - ongoing
Marine fouling expert for tankers and large vessels
2022 - 2025
Group leader at the Zoological Museum of the Christian-Albrechts Universität zu Kiel, Germany (CAU) funded by the president of the university. Goal: develop museomics for the study of evolutionary rescue.
2017 - 2021
Postdoctoral researcher of a BMBF (German Ministry of Education and Science) funded project at the Zoological Museum of the Christian-Albrechts Universität zu Kiel, Germany (CAU). Goal: develop natural history collections as a tool for modern research using genetic and statistical approaches.
2016 - 2017
Postdoctoral researcher of a NSF-funded project in the department of Evolution & Ecology at the University of California at Davis, USA. Goal: study the evolution of mating systems and reproductive traits in marine snails (genus: Nucella)
2010 - 2015
Dissertation at the Genetics department of the University of Georgia, Athens, USA. Title: The evolution of androdioecy in barnacles
2005 - 2010
Diplom thesis at the Zoological Museum of the CAU. Title: the evolution of reproductive systems in shame-faced crabs (genus: Calappa).
ADVISORORY FUNCTION
Doctoral theses [4 students]
Kira Ovenbeck (ongoing), Dr. Sarah Hayer (2020), Dr. Jonas Geburzi (2018), Andrea Böttcher (2018)
Masters theses [2 students]
Rune Fulde (2024), Moritz Armerding (ongoing), Jana Kabus (2022), Kira Ovenbeck (2018)
Bachelor theses [9 students]
Lea Laban (2025), Zoe Moesges (2020), Lena Homberger (2020), Nele Heuer (2020), Nicole Wirth (2019), Juliane Staack (2019), Tobias Strickmann (2018), Ursula Maasz (2018), Sophie Schindler (2018), Selena Djabri (2018)
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
2019 - 2025
Course development and lecturer: “Back to the Future - Wie moderne Methoden die Erforschung zoologischer Sammlungen revolutionieren” (biol-176 01a), Christian-Albrechts University Kiel
2017 - 2019
Lecturer: “Molekulare und Morphologische Ansätze von Evolutionsgenetik und Systematik” (biol-212), Christian-Albrechts University Kiel
2010 - 2015
Tutor: Population genetics for ecologists, undergraduates and high-school students, University of Georgia
Teaching assistant: “Introduction to Evolutionary Genetics”, University of Georgia
2007
Teaching Assistant: “Anatomy of invertebrates”, Christian-Albrechts University Kiel
FELLOWSHIPS, GRANTS & AWARDS
2022
EECG Award of the American Genetic Association [5,000 €]
2021
Applied to the Emmy Noether Fellowship of the DFG (German Scientific Foundation) [declined]
2020
Co-Operative Research Programme of the OECD for a collaboration with the University of Antwerp [18,000€]
2019
Applied to the Volkswagen Freigeist Fellowship programme [declined].
2018
DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service) Travel Award [€2,300]
2017
Postdoc Travel Award for the International Conference of Invertebrate Reproduction and Development [€350]
2016
Runner-up for the best presentation at the Postdoctoral fellow symposium of the University of California, Davis [$100]
2015
The Crustacean Society Student Fellowship [$1,000]
The Lerner Gray Fund for Marine Research of the AMNH [$2,000]
The Crustacean Society Travel Grant [$450]
2014
The People's Choice Award, University of Georgia’s 3 Minute Thesis competition [$500]
Society of Integrative and Comparative Biology Grant-in-Aid of research [$1,000]
University of Georgia Research Foundation’s Foreign Travel Assistance [$2,500]
University of Georgia Genetics Graduate Student Travel Awards [$700]
2013
Alton Fellow of the University of Georgia [$24,000]
2012
Robin Hightower Genetics Graduate Support Fund [$1,000]
2010
Graduate School Assistantship Award from the University of Georgia [$20,000]
2009
DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service) Travel Award [€1,000]
2008
Research Experience for Undergraduates fellowship at the GCE-LTER [$1,300]
2007
University-intern fellowships from the Christian-Albrechts Universität [$2,000]
INVITED TALKS & WORKSHOPS
2021
Darwin Day of the Christian-Albrechts University Kiel
Keynote speaker for the opening ceremony of the “Change” exhibit of the Zoological Museum of the Christian-Albrechts University
2019
Colloquium of the Institute for Biochemistry & Biology, University of Potsdam, Germany. Talk title: “Reconstructing global change at a regional scale: spatial and temporal differentiation in marine invertebrates of North and Baltic Sea.”
Alfred-Wegener Institute on Sylt, Germany. Talk title: “MARSAMM: Historical collections of marine organisms – a window into the onset of global change in North and Baltic Sea”
2017
Symposium “Evolution and Variation of Sexual Systems” of the International Conference of Invertebrate Reproduction and Development (ICIRD) in Florence, Italy. Talk title: “The Maintenance of Males and Hermaphrodites in an Epizoic Barnacle.”
2016
Seminar at the Akkeshi Marine Station, Hokkaido, Japan. “The evolution of life histories in marine invertebrates.
NESCent FuturePhy workshop: Open Tree of Life, Gainesville, FL. Workshop participant.
2015
NESCent R hackathon for population genetics, Raleigh, NC. Workshop participant.
In addition, I presented my research at 13 international and two national conferences between 2009 and 2021, predominantly as talks.
OUTREACH & SERVICE
Taxonomic editor of Thecostraca for the World Register of Marine Species
Reviewer for Molecular Ecology, Evolution, PLOS ONE, Molecular Biology and Evolution, Marine Ecology, Progress Series, peerJ, Marine Biology, Journal of Morphology, Biochemical Systematics and Ecology, Journal of Comparative and Integrative Biology.
Associate editor of “Invertebrate Reproduction and Development” for a themed section on crustacean sex ratios (2018-2019)
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