My most recent CV is available for download (.pdf). Briefly,
I am a German scientist, currently in
Vienna
born in
Garmisch-Partenkirchen
and have lived in
Mittenwald,
Bad Reichenhall,
Tübingen,
San Diego,
Berlin,
Rome, and
Canberra.
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 then worked for 10 years as a research scientist in
Detlef Weigel's laboratory at the
Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology in Tübingen, asking questions in Plant Developmental Biology and looking for answers with genomics.
In 2011, I was also a part-time Fellow in Freshwater Sciences at the
Leibniz Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries (IGB) in Berlin, working with Christian Wurzbacher,
Michael Monaghan and
Hans-Peter Grossart towards an inventory of fungi in fresh water.
In 2012, I joined the group of Justin Borevitz at The Australian National University in Canberra.
where our group was part of the
ARC centre of Excellence in Plant Energy Biology. We developed whole-genome approaches to conservation genetics and breeding.
I recently moved to Vienna, Austria, to lead the molecular biology work in the
Plant Breeding and Genetics Laboratory of the
FAO/IAEA joint division in Seibersdorf.
Besides learning new things every day, my interests include life, science, people, hiking, skiing, and flying.
I had a great couple of years exploring Australia, mostly by camp-flying.