Department of Evolutionary Genetics

Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology

Deutscher Platz 6
04103 Leipzig

phone: +49 341 3550 - 500

e-mail: mittag@[>>> Please remove the brackets! <<<]eva.mpg.de

Curriculum Vitae

Current Position

07/01/2019 -

PhD student in Evolutionary Genetics at the Department of Evolutionary Genetics,
Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig
Titel: ”Detecting and Dating of Admxiture Events between Modern Humans and Archaics”.
Supervisors: Svante Pääbo, Benjamin M. Peter

Education

10/2016 - 12/2018	Master of Science in Biological Sciences, Specialization in Computational Biology University of Cologne Title: “Improving Admixture Time Estimates Between Modern Humans and Neandertals” Supervisor: Benjamin M. Peter, Thomas Wiehe
10/2015 – 09/2016	Master of Science, Toxicology Heinrich-Heine-University, Düsseldorf
10/2012 – 09/2015	Bachelor of Science in Biology University of Cologne Title: “Characterization of Alternative Routs for Cardiolipin Precursor Supply in Saccharomyces cerevisiae” Supervisor: Thomas Langer, Takashi Tatsuta

Additional Research Experience

11/2017 – 12/2017	Research project in the Evolutionary and Experimantal Biology of Aging group, Max Planck Institute for Biology of Aging, Cologne Title: “Simulation of codon sequences under fixed selection scenarios in different killifish genera”. Supervisor: Dario R. Valenzano, Rongfeng Cui
09/2017 – 10/2017	Research project in the Statistical Genetics and Bioinformatics group, Cologne Center for Genomics Title: “Population genetic and biogeographical analysis of a Frisian aDNA sample”. Supervisor: Michael Nothnagel, Dimitry Drichel

Teaching Experience

04/2014 - 07/2014	Assistant in undergraduate class in Genetics, University of Cologne.
10/2013 - 02/2014	Assistant in undergraduate class in Cellular Biology and Biochemistry, University of Cologne.