A current CV is available for download (.pdf). Briefly,
I am a German scientist, born in
Garmisch-Partenkirchen and have lived in
Mittenwald,
Bad Reichenhall,
Tübingen,
San Diego,
Berlin, and
Rome.
I graduated in Biology (Plant Physiology, Genetics, Biochemistry) from the Eberhard-Karls-University Tübingen,
wrote an honours thesis at the
Salk Institute for Biological Studies in
La Jolla,
California and was, until recently, a scientist in
Detlef Weigel's laboratory at the
Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology in Tübingen. In 2011, I was also a Fellow in Freshwater Sciences in part time at the
Leibniz Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries (IGB) in Berlin, working with
Michael Monaghan and
Hans-Peter Grossart towards an inventory of fungi in fresh water.
Recently, I joined the group of Justin Borevitz at The Australian National University in Canberra. We do 2nd-generation-sequencing-enabled conservation genetics and prebreeding.
Besides learning new things every day, my interests include life, science, hiking, travel, skiing and flying.
In the time to come I will explore Australia by all means of transport available to me.
How am I doing?
Well, a German periodical, the Laborjournal,
frequently publishes citation rankings in biological disciplines for the German speaking part of the world.
For a given discipline and timeframe, they determine how often a particular paper and author was cited.
All publications with at least one author with an affiliation to an institute in Germany, Austria, or Switzerland are taken into account and
the top 10 papers and the top 50 authors are listed.
For 2006-2009 you will find me ranked 26th in Molecular Biology.
For 2007-2010 you will find me ranked 15th in Plant Research.