Curriculum Vitae
Education
| 1988 – 1992 | Karl-Liebknecht Schule, Leipzig (specialised in English) |
| 1992 – 2000 | Friedrich-Schiller Gymnasium, Leipzig |
| 2002 – 2008 | diploma studies of biology, Leipzig |
| 2004 | intermediate examination for a diploma with good grades (1.6) |
| 2007 – 2007 | project thesis: “Phylogeographic and genetic structure of arctoalpine arthropods using the example of Erebia pandrose (Lepidoptera)” |
| 2007 – 2008 | diploma thesis: “Sequencing, characterisation and phylogenetic analysis of the mitochondrial genome of Echinocardium cordatum (Echinoidea)” |
| 2008 | diploma with very good grades (1.4) |
| 2010 | PhD thesis at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig: “Genetic population structure of central chimpanzees at Goualougo” |
Employment in research and teaching
| 2005 – 2007 | tutor of the student group: „biology for medical scientists”, University of Leipzig |
| 2007 | assistant scientist at the Max-Planck-Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig (main responsibility: conducting two-step multiplex PCRs on DNA obtained from faeces from black and white colobus monkeys) |
| 2008 | assistant scientist at the Max-Planck-Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig (main responsibility: 454-sequencing of human mitochondrial genomes) |
| 2009 – 2010 | internship in the Max-Planck-Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Science, Leipzig (main responsibility: doing a meta-analysis which summarises the results of studies comparing brain images of suffers of Major Depressive Disorder and healthy controls) |
