Education:
09/2018 – current PhD student at Fraunhofer Institute for Molecular Biology and Applied Ecology; Gießen
09/2018 – current Affiliated Researcher at LOEWE Centre for Translational Biodiversity Genomics, Frankfurt
04/2016 – 08/2018 Student at Technical University of Braunschweig (Master); Braunschweig
10/2012 – 04/2016 Student at Technical University of Braunschweig (Bachelor); Braunschweig
08/2008 – 09/2012 Lab Technician at Heubach GmbH; Langelsheim
07/2008 Abitur at Robert Bosch Gesamtschule; Hildesheim
Board memberships: Second chairman of the German Arachnological Society (since 2019); Substitute management committee member for Germany in the EU COST action EUVEN (since 2020).
Service as a reviewer: Scientific Reports, Salamandra, Toxins, Toxicon.
Awards and grants: Young researcher grant of the DeArGe 2018 (1800€), Travel Grant of the German Embassy in Ecuador (Quito) 2019 (1500€), Travel Grant of the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) 2019 (2600€).
Participation on symposia and congresses: GfG summer meeting 2016 – Adaption in nature – from ecology to genomes (Braunschweig, 2016); Spring meeting 2018 of the ZAG Wirbellose (Halle, 2018); Arachnoweekend 2018 of the DeArGe (Hessisch Lichtenau, 2018); Deutscher Herpetologentag 2018 of the DGHT (Magdeburg, 2018); INSECTA 2018 (Gießen, 2018); Recombinant Protein Production 10 of the European Federation of Biotechnology (Hersonissos, Greece 2019); 2nd Congresso Latinoamericano de Biogeografia and Humboldt 250 Conference (Quito, Ecuador 2019); 2019 World Congress of the International Society on Toxinology (Buenos Aires, Argentina 2019), Bioengineering of Toxins 2019 of the SFET (Paris, France 2019); Peptide Therapeutics Forum 2020 of the Swiss Chemical Society (Covid19 caused online conference, 2020).
Memberships in scientific associations: Society of Systematic Biologists (SSB); Deutsche Arachnologische Gesellschaft/ German Society for Arachnology (DeArGe), International Society on Toxinology (IST); French Society of Toxinology (SFET); European Federation of Biotechnology.