CV

Since September 2012
University of Munich (LMU), Germany
Scientific Assistant, Evolutionary and Functional Genomics
July 2010 to August 2012
Westfalian Wilhelms University (WWU), Germany
Postdoctoral fellow, Institute for Evolution and Biodiversity, Evolutionary Bioinformatics Group, Prof. Dr. Erich Bornberg-Bauer
February 2007 to June 2010
University of Munich (LMU), Germany
 PhD (Dr. rer. nat.)
Dissertation: Molecular Evolution of Sex-Biased Genes in Drosophila ananassae [pdf] -  (Supervision: Prof. Dr. John Parsch)
March 2005 to December 2006
Munich Technical University (TU) and University of Munich (LMU), Germany 
Master degree Bioinformatics
Master’s Thesis: Comparison of distance- and kernel-based methods for structured data  - (Supervision: Prof. Dr. Stefan Kramer, TU)
October 2001 to March 2005
Munich Technical University (TU) and University of Munich (LMU), Germany 
Bachelor degree Bioinformatics
Bachelor’s Thesis: Influence of fusogene peptides on fusion of liposome-membranes  - in German, Supervision: Prof. Dr. Dieter Langosch/Dr. Markus Gütlich, TU)
October 1999 to October 2001
Munich Technical University (TU), Germany
Studies of Computer Science

Research Interests

13th Congress of the European Society of Evolutionary Biology (ESEB) 
Poster presentation 
Tuebingen, Germany, August 20-25, 2011
5th Annual Arthropod Genomics Symposium
 Oral presentation
 Kansas City, United States of America, June 8-12, 2011
Conference on Stress and Evolution  
Poster presentation 
Münster, Germany, July 14-16, 2010
Annual Meeting of the Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution (SMBE) 
Poster presentation, oral presentation (symposium workshop)
 Lyon, France, July 4-8, 2010
43rd Population Genetics Group Meeting 
Oral presentation
 Liverpool, United Kingdom, January 5-8, 2010
12th Congress of the European Society of Evolutionary Biology (ESEB) 
Poster presentation 
Torino, Italy, August 24-29, 2009
101st Annual Meeting of the German Zoological Society (DZG)
 Oral presentation  
Jena, Germany, September 19-22, 2008
EES Summer School "Evolution of sex-chromosomes" 
Oral presentation  
Frauenchiemsee, Germany, September 14-19, 2008
20th European Drosophila Research Conference (EDRC) 
Poster presentation 
Vienna, Austria, September 12-14, 2007