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 |
2006 - 2011 | Staff Scientist |
2009 - 2010 | Visiting Professor |
2003 - 2006 | Postdoctoral Research Fellow |
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 |
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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 |
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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. |