CV

Positions

• since 2025 Professor for Molecular Plant Sciences, Plant Biotechnology and Bioinformatics, IZMB (University of Bonn)
• 2021-2025 Plant Biotechnology and Bioinformatics, TU Braunschweig
• 2019-2020 Molecular Genetics and Physiology of Plants
• 2018-2019 Genetics and Genomics of Plants, CeBiTec & Faculty of Biology (Bielefeld University)
• 2018 Evolution and Diversity, Department of Plant Sciences, University of Cambridge(UK), funded by DAAD
• 2015-2017 Genome Research, CeBiTec & Faculty of Biology (Bielefeld University)
• 2015 ALACRiS Theranostics GmbH
• 2011-2015 Faculty of Biology (Bielefeld University)

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Education

• 05/2019: Dr. rer. nat. (very good), Faculty of Biology (Bielefeld University), thesis: De novo</i> Nd-1 genome assembly reveals genomic diversity of Arabidopsis thaliana and facilitates genome-wide non-canonical splice site analyses across plant species. doi: 10.4119/unibi/2935794.
• 2017-2019 Computational Methods for the Analysis of the Diversity and Dynamics of Genomes (DiDy) | GRK1906
• 2017-2020 PhD Program Bioinformatics (Bielefeld University)
• 2016-2019 PhD Program Biology (Bielefeld University)
• 2013-2015 Genome-Based Systems Biology (Bielefeld University)
• 2010-2013 Biology (Genetics, Cell Biology, Physiology) (Bielefeld University)
• 2009-2010 Biochemistry (Heinrich Heine University Duesseldorf)

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Synthetic Biology (iGEM)

iGEM is the largest competition for synthetic biology. Student teams from all over the world participate and present their project at the annual Giant Jamboree. iGEM Bielefeld-CeBiTec participates in iGEM since 2010. My iGEM story: