Personal information

Date of birth: 02.09.1992

Place of birth: Bad Friedrichshall, Germany

Nationality: German

Current position

01.05.2024 – 30.04.2026: Biostatistician at the Palaeoanthropology lab of the University of Tübingen/Senckenberg Centre for Human Evolution and Palaeoenvironment

Employment history

01.02.2022 – 30.04.2024: IT Technician at the Animal Evolutionary Ecology lab of the University of Tübingen

03.11.2017 – 31.12.2020:
Research assistant (PhD student) at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (LMU Munich) funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG project HA 6300/3-2: Palaeo-Evo-Devo of Malacostraca)

Academic education

29.10.2022:
PhD with high honour (magna cum laude); title of dissertation: “The link between true larvae and parasitic forms within Isopoda – insights from the fossil record”; supervisor: Prof. Dr. Joachim T. Haug

November 2017 – January 2022: Doctoral studies at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (LMU Munich)

30.10.2017:
Receipt of master certificate; mark 2.0; title of master thesis: “The Middle Miocene arthropod taphocoenosis from Schaßbach (Carinthia, Austria) – systematics and paleoecology”; supervisor: Prof. Dr. O. Betz

April 2016 – October 2017:
Studies of geoecology (Master of Science) at the University of Tübingen

18.04.2016:
Receipt of bachelor certificate; mark 1.7; title of bachelor thesis: “First Record of Anisoptera (Insecta: Odonata) from mid-Cretaceous Burmese Amber”; supervisor: Prof. Dr. O. Betz

October 2014 – April 2016:
Studies of biology (Bachelor of Science) at the University of Tübingen

October 2012 – October 2014:
Studies of Geoscience at the University of Tübingen

Non-academic education

May 2021 – August 2021:
Advanced training to be qualified as a data scientist, data analysis and designing predictive models using Python, 540 hours of hands-on training, neuefische GmbH, Cologne (online)

Membership in societies

since 2019:
Paläontologische Gesellschaft (German Palaeontological Society)

Certificates

Coding Club: Data Science for ecologist and environmental scientists (R programming and statistics). PDF link to their website

Reviewing activities

December 2022:
Honorary reviewer for Diversity

September 2021:
Honorary reviewer for PeerJ

September 2021:
Honorary reviewer for BMC Ecology and Evolution

March 2018:
Honorary reviewer for PeerJ

February 2018:
Honorary reviewer for the Journal of Paleontology

August 2017:
Honorary reviewer for Alcheringa (Australasian Journal for Paleontology)

June & July 2017:
Honorary reviewer for the Journal of Systematic Paleontology

Workshop attendances

24.09.2018 – 28.09.2018:
“Anwendung lizenzfreier Open Source Software zur Bearbeitung und Analyse morphologischer Bilddatensätze” (Application of free open source software for editing and analysis of morphological image data) – Stefan Fischer, Tübingen

09.05.2019 – 10.05.2019:
“An Introduction to Anatomy Ontologies, Bonn” – Peter Grobe & Lars Vogt, Bonn

Fieldwork

June, August & September 2014, August 2015 & August 2019:
Miocene of Hammerschmiede (Kaufbeuren), Germany

September 2016:
Miocene of Staniantsi, Bulgaria

April & August 2016:
Miocene of Schaßbach (Wolfberg), Austria

August 2013 & August 2015:
Miocene of Gratkorn, Austria