Education
| 2020 | Dr. rer. nat. (Doctor of Natural Sciences) Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology and University of Leipzig; Dissertation: Genetic inference of gorilla population dynamics in Loango National Park, Gabon |  |
| 2013 | Diplom-Biologin University of Mainz, Germany; Thesis: Analysis of sequence evolution of sperm proteins: alternative methods on the example of AKAP3 within primates |
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| 2010 | Erasmus, Copenhagen University, Denmark |
Postdoctoral Academic Employment
| 2023 - present | Interim Professor, University of Mainz, IomeE, Antropology |
| 2022 - 2023 | Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Mainz, IomE, Anthropology |
| 2021 - 2022 | Postdoctoral Researcher, State Museum of Natural History Stuttgart, Zoology |
| 2020 - 2021 | University of Cologne, Bioinformatics and Population Genetics |
International Research and Field Experience
 | 2023 | Field Work for the ongoing Tarsier project, Sulawesi, Indonesia |
| 2014 and 2015 | Field work for PhD thesis on wild western lowland gorillas, Loango National Park, Gabon | |
| 2013 | Scientific volunteer at the Endangered Primate Rescue Centre, Cuc Phuong National Park, Vietnam | |
| 2011 | Research project with the Lizard Lab Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia | |
| 2010 | Research Project with the Functional Genomics group, Copenhagen University, Denmark | |
| 2010 | Expedition on the Danish national research vessel, from Greenland to Denmark, Technical University of Denmark | |
| 2008 | Porpoise observation in Middelefart, Little Belt, Denmark | |
| 2007 | Research assistant, North of England Zoological Society - Chester Zoo | |
| 2006 | Scientific Volunteer Eco Project Ltd Charlottesville, Trinidad and Tobago |
Engagement
| 2021 - present | Board member of Berggorilla and Regenwald Direkthilfe |
| 2018 - 2019 | PhD council chair, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology |
| 2015 - 2018 | PhD representative, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology |
| 2008 - 2013 | Member of the student council, University of Mainz |
| 2008 - 2013 | Member of the Faculty council, University of Mainz |
Professional societies
| International Primate Society |
| German Primate Society |
| GRASP (Great Ape Survival Partnership; UNEP |
Science Communication (Posters, Talks and Invited Talks)
| 2023 | PSSP Summer School, IPB University, Java, Indonesia (on., Invited Talk) |
| 2023 | Tadulako University, Sulawesi, Indonesia (Invited Talk) |
| 2023 | Cologne Zoo (Invited Talk) |
| 2022 | Science Marathon SMNS (Talk) |
| 2022 | German Society for Mammalian Biology, Hamburg (Talk) |
| 2022 | Conservation Genetics Conference, Edinburgh (Poster) |
| 2022 | Joint Conference of the European Federation for Primatology and the Gesellschaft für Primatologie, Arnheim (Talk) |
| 2019 | Wildlife Research and Conservation, Berlin (Poster) |
| 2019 | German Primatological Society Congress, Göttingen (Talk) |
| 2018 | International Primatological Society Congresses, Nairobi (Talk) |
| 2018 | Berggorilla und Regenwalddirekthilfe e.V. Zoo (Invited Talk) |
| 2018 | Zoo Saarbrücken lecture series (Invited Talk) |