2023–pres. Full professor (W3) at the Department of Biology, Technical University of Darmstadt

2019–2023 Independent Junior Research Group Leader (Emmy Noether Programme of the German Research Foundation) at the Institute of Zoology, University of Cologne

2018–2019 Postdoctoral fellow at the University of Cologne; DFG Return grant

2017–2020 Adjunct Scholar in the Department of Biology at Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada

2015–2018 Postdoctoral fellow at Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada

2014–2015 Postdoctoral fellow at the Department of Botany, University of Cologne

2014 Doctoral dissertation (Botany), University of Cologne

2005–2011 Studies in Biology at the University of Bonn (Diploma)

2019 Emmy Noether Programme of the German Research Foundation

2016 Research fellowship of the German Research Foundation

2015 Karl Gottlieb Grell Prize for an outstanding dissertation in protistology awarded by the German Society for Protozoology

2012 Scholarship of the German National Academic Foundation (Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes) for the doctoral studies

2006 Scholarship of the German National Academic Foundation (Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes) for the undergraduate studies

2005 Awarded by the city council of Wiehl for remarkable achievements (medal of Wiehl)

2005 Winner of the national science competition “Jugend forscht” in Biology