Personal Details

Place of Birth:

Nationality:

Professional Qualification

2007

1999

Munich, Germany

Australian/German

Dr. rer. nat. (equivalent to PhD)

Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn

Diplom-Biologe (equivalent to MSc)

Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München

03/2008 - 12/2010

Postdoctoral Researcher and Visiting Fellow, Centre for Visual Sciences, The Australian National University, Canberra, Australia

Project: The Ecology of Habituation in Fiddler Crabs (Uca. spec.)

Supported by German Research Foundation (DFG), ARC Centre of Excellence in Vision Science, Centre for Visual Sciences (ANU)

09/2007 - 02/2008

Postdoctoral Researcher, Theoretical Biology, Universität Bonn

Research and Teaching

05/2003 - 08/2007

PhD student, Theoretical Biology, Universität Bonn

Orientation and Search Strategies of Desert Arthropods: Path Integration Models and Experiments with Desert Ants, Cataglyphis fortis

Supervisor: Prof Dr Wolfgang Alt, Universität Bonn
Co-Supervisor: Prof Dr Rüdiger Wehner, Universität Zürich

02/2002 - 04/2003

Assistantship, Laboratory Dres. Becker/Olgemöller, München

Division of Bacteriology

01/2000 - 01/2002

Zoologisches Institut, Technische Universität München and University of Stellenbosch, South Africa

Project: The Function of Duetting in South African Shrikes (Laniarius spec.)

Supported by Technische Universität München and Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst DAAD

10/1999 - 12/1999

Practical Training, Zoologisches Institut, Technische Universität München

Studies on Red Bishops (Euplectes orix) and Southern Boubous (Laniarius ferrugineus)

10/1993 - 07/1999

Studies of Biology

Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München

10/1992 - 09/1993

Studies of Mechanical Engineering

Technische Universität München

10/2008

Fieldwork at Bowling Green Bay, Queensland, Australia

Research on Fiddler Crabs (Uca vomeris)

04/2008

Fieldwork at Bowling Green Bay, Queensland, Australia

Research on Fiddler Crabs

07/2006

Fieldwork at Maharès, Tunisia

Research on Desert Ants (Cataglyphis fortis)

06/2005 - 09/2005

Fieldwork at Maharès, Tunisia

Research on Desert Ants

06/2004 - 09/2004

Fieldwork at Maharès, Tunisia

Research on Desert Ants

08/2000 - 04/2001

Fieldwork in Eastern Cape/Limpopo Province, South Africa

Research on Southern Boubous (Laniarius ferrugineus) and Crimsonbreasted Shrikes (L. atrococcineus)

11/1999 - 12/1999

Fieldwork in Eastern Cape, South Africa

Research on Red Bishop (Euplectes orix)

08/1998 - 11/1998

Fieldwork on Yakushima Island, Japan

Research on Japanese Monkeys (Macaca fuscata yakui)

Anim Behav

Animal Behaviour

Behav Ecol

Behavioral Ecology

Behav Ecol Sociobiol

Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology

Biol Cybern

Biological Cybernetics

J Exp Biol

Journal of Experimental Biology