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Scientific career:

• 2006 - Present: Assistant professor at the Institute of Neurobiology, Ulm University, Germany.
• 2000 - 2006: Research associate at the Institute of Neurobiology, Ulm University, Germany, in the laboratory of Dr. Harald Wolf.
• 1999 - 2000: Postdoctoral fellow at the Department of Neuroscience, School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA, in the laboratory of Dr. Michael P. Nusbaum.
• 1998 - 1999: Postdoctoral fellow at the Department of Biological Cybernetics/theoretical Biology, University of Bielefeld, Germany, in the laboratory of Dr. Holk Cruse.
• 03/1998 - 08/1998: Postdoctoral fellow at the Institute of Neurobiology, Ulm University, Germany, in the laboratory of Dr. Harald Wolf.
• 02/1998    Ph.D. (Dr. rer. nat.), Department of Biology, University of Kaiserslautern, Germany. Dissertation: "Task-dependent changes in the femur-tibia joint control system of the stick insect Cuniculina impigra".
• 1995 - 1998: Ph.D. student at the Department of Biology, University of Kaiserslautern, Germany. Advisors: Dr. Ulrich Bässler and Dr. Ansgar Büschges.
• 1995: Diploma in Biology at the Department of Biology, University of Kaiserslautern, Germany. Title: "Habituation of muscles responses in the stick insect".
• 1994 - 1995: Diploma student (Biology) at the Department of Biology, University of Kaiserslautern, Germany. Advisors: Dr. Ulrich Bässler and Dr. Joachim Deitmer.

 
 Post-doctoral research summary

• 2006 - Present: Ulm University. Explored the processing of sensory information from different sense organs on the motor circuits in locusts and crustaceans (own lab). Experimental research and computer modeling.
• 2000 - 2006: Ulm University. Characterized the effects of neuromodulatory projection neurons on the selection of motor patterns from multifunctional networks (own lab and lab of Dr. Harald Wolf). Experimental research.
• 1999 - 2000: University of Pennsylvania. Studied the convergence and divergence of cotransmitters on pattern generation in the stomatogastric nervous system of the crab (lab of Dr. Michael P. Nusbaum). Experimental research.
• 1998 - 1999: University of Bielefeld. Characterized the interaction of different sense organs in the walking system of stick insects (lab of Dr. Holk Cruse and Dr. Josef Schmitz). Experimental research.
• 1998: Ulm University: Explored vibration sensitivity of the femoral chordotonal organ in the stick insect (lab of Dr. Harald Wolf and Dr. Ulrich Bässler). Experimental research.

Graduate and undergraduate research summary

• 1995 - 1998: University of Kaiserslautern. Investigated the neuronal basis of adaptive gain changes in the walking system of the stick insect Cuniculina impigra (lab of Dr. Ulrich Bässler). Experimental research.
• 1994 - 1995: University of Kaiserslautern. Studied habituation with intracellular recordings from muscles in the stick insects Cuniculina impigra and Carausius morosus (lab of Dr. Ulrich Bässler). Experimental research.

Fellowships, Grants & Awards

• 06/2011 Heisenberg fellowship of the German Research Foundation (DFG)
• 06/2011 Grant STE937/9-1 of the German Research Foundation (DFG).
• 07/2009 Grant STE937/7-1 of the German Research Foundation (DFG).
• 10/2008 Teaching Award 2008 of Ulm University for excellence in teaching and training of students.
• 01/2007 Grant STE937/5-1 of the German Research Foundation (DFG).
• 03/2006 Albert & Ellen Grass Faculty Award for studies and research at the Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, USA.
• 06/2003 Grants STE937/2-1 and 2 of the of the German Research Foundation (DFG).
• 05/2003 Startup grant Ulm University.
• 02/1999 Fellowship DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service); declined.
• 08/1998 Research project ("Olfactory behavior of the locust, Schistocerca gregaria") at the International Center for Insect Physiology and Ecology (ICIPE) in Nairobi, Kenia.  Fellowship of GARN (German-American Academic Network).
• 08/1996 & 08/1997 Fellowship of the German-American Academic Council (GAAC) Foundation for participation at the seminars "The Organization of Behavior in Higher & Lower Animals" in Dietramszell, Germany and Bodega Bay, California, USA. Faculty: Dr. Martin Heisenberg (Würzburg) and Dr. Masakazu Konishi (Pasadena, USA).
• 1995 - 1998 Fellowship of the Graduiertenförderung Rhineland-Palatinate at the University of Kaiserslautern.