CV

Date and place of birth:

• 17 March 1974, Berlin, Germany

Degrees:  

• 2006 Dr. rer. nat., Freie Universität (FU) Berlin, Germany
• 2000  Diploma Biology, FU Berlin

Working experience:

• Since April 2016: Assistant professor at Biosystematics group, Wageningen University
• 2016: Humboldt research fellow at Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz, Germany
• 2015: Visiting professor at FU Berlin
• 2014 – 2015: Visiting research fellow at FU Berlin
• 2010 – 2014: Post-doctoral researcher at Laboratory of Entomology, Wageningen University (personal NWO Veni grant)
• 2007 – 2010: Post-doctoral researcher at Laboratory of Entomology, Wageningen University (personal DFG research grant)

Grants and scholarships:

• Personal grant for talented experienced researchers to develop own research line (VIDI) by Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research, NWO (2015)
• Alexander van Humboldt Research fellowship for experienced researchers (2014)
• NWO Aspasia grant to encourage the promotion of female Vidi grant candidates to an associate professorship (2014)
• Personal grant for talented young researchers (VENI) by NWO (2009)
• Research fellowship for highly qualified young researchers by German Research Foundation, DFG (2007)
• Exchange grant for young scientists funded by the European Science Foundation, ESF (2006)
• Ph.D. talent grant from the Berliner Graduierten Förderung (NaFöG) at FU Berlin (2002)

Invited presentations:

• Gordon Research Conference Plant-Herbivore Interaction, Ventura, CA, USA (2017)
• Annual meeting Experimental Plant Sciences, Lunteren, The Netherlands (2017)
• Panhellenic Entomological Congress, Heraklion, Greece (2015)
• Colloquium of the Collaborative Research Centre ‘Priming and Memory of Organismic Responses to Stress’, FU Berlin (2015)
• Symposium on the Use of Egg Parasitoids in Agriculture, Agricultural University of Athens, Greece (2015)
• Netherlands-Japan Seminar on Parasitoid Biology, Wageningen (2014)
• Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Seminar, Neuchatel, Switzerland (2014)
• Job application as assistant professor ‘Plant bio-interactions’, Stockholm, Sweden (2013)
• Talk at ‘Fascinatie voor Insecten’, Amsterdam, The Netherlands (2012)
• Insects and Society, Wageningen (2011 & 2013)
• Entomophagous Insect Conference, Antibes, France (2011)
• PhD workshop “Plant-interactions with other Eukaryotes”, Lausanne, Switzerland (2011)
• Seminar at Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology, Neuroethology, Jena, Germany (2008)
• International Congress of Entomology, Durban, South Africa (2008)
• Conference on the Biology of Butterflies, Rome, Italy (2007)
• Department of Ecology and Evolution, University of Lausanne, Switzerland (2005)

(Co-)Supervision MSc, PhD and Postdocs:

• 6 BSc, 30 MSc, 7 PhDs and 5 Postdocs (2004-present)

Teaching activities:

• 2016-present: Webs of Terrestrial Diversity (BSc), Wageningen University
• 2016-present: Biodiversity of the Netherlands (BSc), WUR
• 2015: Human Ecology - How microbes affect our life (BSc), FU Berlin
• 2015-2016: Schreiben naturwissenschaftlicher Texte (Scientific writing) (BSc), FU Berlin
• 2010-2015: Ecological Aspects of Bio-interactions (MSc), WUR
• 2003-2015: Supervision practicals in different MSc and BSc courses, WUR