CV

Education

• 2007: Dr. rer. nat. (Ph.D.) in Biology, University of Munich
• 2003: Diploma in Biology, University of Munich
• 1999: Intermediate Diploma, University of Munich

Professional Experience

• 2007-present: Scientific Assistant, University of Munich
• 2003-2007: PhD research
  Department of Evolutionary Biology, University of Munich
  Project: Natural Variation in Drosophila melanogaster
• 2003: Diploma thesis
  Department of Evolutionary Biology, University of Munich
  Project: Codon-bias in Drosophila melanogaster
• 2001: Research Assistant
  Department of Evolutionary Biology, University of Munich
  Project: Compensatory Evolution in Drosophila melanogaster

Teaching Experience

Lectures:

• Evolutionary Genetics
• Evolutionary Biology (1+2) for Bachelor Students
• Population Genetics (1+2)
• Biology for Minor Subject Students

Lab Courses:

• Lab Course "Evolutionary Biology (1+2) for Bachelor Students"
• Lab Course "Molecular Biology and Biochemistry for Bioinformaticians"
• Computer Course "Programming Perl for Beginners"
• Computer Course "Population Genetics"

Tutorials, Seminars, Skills Courses:

• Skills Course "Grant Writing"
• Seminar & Discussion "Global Change"
• Tutorial "Evolutionary Genetics"
• Tutorial "Mathematics for Biologists"

Grants, Fellowships and Awards

• DFG Grant (with W. Stephan, LMU Munich): Evidence for balancing selection at immunity genes in Drosophila, 2012-2015
  Part of the DFG Priority Program 1399: Host-Parasite Coevolution - Rapid Reciprocal Adaptation and its Genetic Basis
• DFG Grant: Transcriptional basis of cold adaptation in Drosophila melanogaster, 2011-2014
  Part of the DFG Research Unit FOR 1078 - Natural selection in structured populations  
• DFG Grant (with W. Stephan, LMU Munich): Recent Selection on Immunity Genes in Drosophila, 2009-2012
  Part of the DFG Priority Program 1399: Host-Parasite Coevolution - Rapid Reciprocal Adaptation and its Genetic Basis
• EES Prize for the best PhD thesis in the field of Ecology, Evolution and Systematics, 2007, University of Munich
• Marie-Curie-Fellowship, awarded by the European Commision, 2004
  Department of Genetics, University of Barcelona, Spain
  Project: Development of bioinformatic tools for analysis of large-scale sequence alignments

Journal Referee

• African Journal of Biotechnology
• Bioinformatics
• BMC Evolutionary Biology
• BMC Genetics
• BMC Genomics
• Genetics
• Heredity
• Molecular Biology and Evolution
• Molecular Ecology
• Nature Communications
• PLoS ONE
• Zoology