06/2016 – present: Scientific coordinator of the DFG-funded Collaborative Research Centre 1076 „AquaDiva“
01/2016 – 11/2020: Further training – Certificate “Science Management”:
Good Scientific Practice, Science Landscape in Germany, Science and Technology Transfer, Science in Online Media, Project Management, Team Work, Moderating, Event Organization, Finances and Controlling
10/2008 – 06/2015: PhD in Microbiology, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Germany
Thesis: “Iron-oxidizing bacteria in heavy metal-contaminated creeks” within the DFG-funded Research Training Group GRK 1257 „Alteration and Element Mobility at the Microbe-mineral Interface“
10/2002 – 09/2008: Diploma in Biology, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Germany
Diploma thesis at the University of Cologne, Institute for Genetics, with Prof. Dr. Karin Schnetz: „Interaction of LuxR-type transcription factors in Escherichia coli“