Curriculum vitae
Education and career
Since 2025 University lecturer for “Diversity and Ecology of Lower Plants”, Technical University Darmstadt
2024-2025 Postdoctoral fellow, University of Cologne
2024 Doctorate (Dr. rer. nat.) in Biology, in the lab of Professor Hartmut Arndt, University of Cologne
2019 Master of Science in Microbiology, University of Bonn
External master thesis in the lab of Professor Alastair Simpson, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada (DAAD-funded research stay)
2015 Bachelor of Science in Biology, University of Cologne
Bachelor thesis in the lab of Professor Michael Melkonian, University of Cologne
Awards and scholarships
2025 Karl-Gottlieb-Grell Prize for an outstanding dissertation awarded by the Society of Eukaryotic Microbiology
2020 Award for an outstanding master thesis awarded by the phycological section of the German Society for Plant Sciences, Kall-Steinfeld, Germany
2018 Scholarship of the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) for an external master thesis at the Department of Biology, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada
2016 Scholarship of the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) for an internship at the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Dalhousie University, Halifax (Canada)
Publications for the general public
2022 Press release “Alge des Jahres 2023: Die landlebende Jochalge Serritaenia baut ihren eigenen Sonnenschirm”, phycology section of the German Society for Plant Sciences,
https://www.dbg-phykologie.de/en/alge-des-jahres/alge-des-jahres-2023
2022 Video “Alge des Jahres 2023”, University of Cologne, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eYjgwXre0hc
2021 Press release “Algen produzieren ihren eigenen Sonnenschutz”, Rhein Zeitung, Öffentlicher Anzeiger
Peer-reviewed publications
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