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CV

Appointments

2014 – present	*Privatdozent (venia legendi)* Biologisch-Pharmazeutische Fakultät, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena
2013 – 2018	Track Leader Max Planck Weizmann Center for Integrative Archaeology and Anthropology, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig
2011 - 2013	Staff Scientist Institut für Spezielle Zoologie und Evolutionsbiologie mit Phyletischem Museum, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena
2006 - 2011	Staff Scientist Department of Human Evolution, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig
2009 - 2010	Visiting Professor Department für Anthropologie, Universität Wien
2003 - 2006	Postdoctoral Research Fellow Hull York Medical School and Department of Biology, University of York, UK
1999 - 2000	Demonstrator in Anatomy Department of Anatomy and Developmental Biology, University College London, UK

Honorary appointments

2007 – present	Honorary Visiting Fellow Hull York Medical School, The University of York, UK
2009 – 2012	Honorary Visiting Fellow Department of Engineering, University of Hull, UK
2003 – 2006	Honorary Research Fellow Department of Anatomy & Developmental Biology, University College London, UK

Education

2014	*Habilitation and venia legendi (Lehrbefugnis) in Zoology*, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena
1999 – 2003	PhD in Vertebrate Palaeontology, Department of Anatomy & Developmental Biology, University College London, UK
1996 – 1999	“Diplom” in Biology (MSc equivalent), Universität Hamburg, Germany
1993 – 1996	“Vordiplom” in Biology (BSc equivalent), Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Germany

Grants and scholarships

2013	Grant-in-aid. Gesellschaft zur Förderung Kynologischer Forschung, Bonn (EUR 24.000)
2012	Grant-in-aid. Albert-Heim-Stiftung der Schweizerischen Kynologischen Gesellschaft, Switzerland (CHF 12.000)
2012	Grant-in-aid. Deutsche Zoologische Gesellschaft and Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena, Germany: Workshop organisation (EUR 500)
2001, 2003	Graduate School Student Conference Fund, University College London, UK (GBP 1.000)
2002 – 2003	Departmental Research Studentship, Department of Anatomy and Developmental Biology, University College London, UK (GBP 9.000)
1999 – 2002	Graduate School Research Scholarship and Department of Anatomy and Developmental Biology Research Studentship, University College London, UK (GBP 33.000)

Academic service

Journals	Academic Editor: PLOS ONE Reviewer:American Journal of Physical Anthropology, Anatomical Record, Biomechanics and Modeling in Mechanobiology, Frontiers of Oral Biology Series, Hystrix, Journal of Anatomy, Journal of Biomechanics, Journal of the Mechanical Behavior of Biomedical Materials, Journal of Human Evolution, Journal of Morphology, Journal of Theoretical Biology, PLOS ONE
Grants	Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft; Israel Science Foundation; Czech Science Foundation

Workshop organisation

2012	Geometric Morphometrics: Tools for biological shape analysis (co-organised with Dr. A. Cardini). Workshop of the Section Morphology of the German Zoological Society. Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena, 23. 27/07/2012.
2007	Hard tissues workshop. Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, 29/11/2007.

Graduate and postgraduate theses supervision

2012 –	Nicole Chowanietz. Doctoral thesis “Dental growth and development in canines.” Zentrum für Zahn-, Mund- und Kieferheilkunde, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena.
2012 –	Stefan Curth. Doctoral thesis project: “The influence of cranial morphology on jaw kinematics and the generation of bite forces in the domestic dog”. Institut für Spezielle Zoologie und Evolutionsbiologie, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena.
2007 – 2011	Adeline Le Cabec. PhD thesis project: “Incisor tooth root morphology in Neandertals”. International Max Planck Research School, Leipzig
2013 –	Patrizia Henze and Gabriele Unterhitzenberger, MSc theses supervision. Institut für Spezielle Zoologie und Evolutionsbiologie, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena.
2012, 2013	Flavia Gavrilei, Stefanie Griebsch, Patrizia Henze, Katharina Voigt. BSc theses supervision. Institut für Spezielle Zoologie und Evolutionsbiologie, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena.