academic positions

since 2014 staff member, Museum für Naturkunde, Berlin, Germany

2011-2014 research scientist, Laboratory for Evolutionary Morphology, RIKEN Center for Developmental Biology, Kobe, Japan

2008-2011 postdoctoral researcher, Paläontologisches Institut und Museum, Universität Zürich, Switzerland

2005-2007 postdoctoral scholar, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, University of California at San Francisco, San Francisco, CA/USA

2001-2005 research associate, Institut für Spezielle Zoologie und Evolutionsbiologie mit Phyletischem Museum, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena, Germany

education

2005 promoted Dr. rer. nat., Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena/Germany; title of dissertation: 'Entwicklung der cranialen Neuralleistenströme der Anura: Heterochronien während der frühen Embryogenese' (advisors Dr. Lennart Olsson and Dr. Alexander Haas)

2001 Diplom, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena/Germany. Title: 'In vivo-Markierung cranialer Neuralleistenzellen bei Bombina-Arten (Anura: Discoglossidae) mit dem Green Fluorescent Protein als Vorraussetzung für die Erstellung eines Langzeit-fate mapping-Systems' (advisors Dr. Lennart Olsson and Dr. Alexander Haas)

research/educational visits

2011, 2012, 2013 visiting researcher/invited lecturer (spring 2012) at the School of Biological Sciences, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador, Ecuador; host Dr. Eugenia M del Pino

2008, 2009, 2010 visiting researcher at the Institute of Biology of the University of Leiden, The Netherlands; host Dr. Michael K Richardson

2005 guest researcher at the Natural History Museum in London/UK supported by the Synthesis program of the European Union; collaboration with Dr. Marcelo Sánchez

1999 guest student at the Evolutionary Biology Centre of the University of Uppsala/Sweden; host: Dr. Lennart Olsson

1999 visiting student at the Zoological Museum of the University of Copenhagen/Denmark; host: Dr. Reinhardt M Kristensen

1997, 1998 guest student at the Zoological Institute of the University of Copenhagen/Denmark, supported by the ERASMUS/Socrates program of the European Union; host Dr. Cornelis JP Grimmelikhuizen

links

• Institut für Spezielle Zoologie und Evolutionsbiologie mit Phyletischem Museum, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena, Jena, Deutschland/Germany
• Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, University of California at San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, United States of America
• Paläontologisches Institut und Museum, Universität Zürich, Zürich, Schweiz/Switzerland
• RIKEN Center for Developmental Biology, Kobe, Japan