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Vita

Vita

Forschung

Funktionen

Publikationen

1998              
Abitur at the GuthsMuths Gymnasium, Jena

1998 - 1999
Community service

1999 - 2001    
Study of Geography at the Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena (FSU)

2001 - 2006   
Study of Biology and Geography pursuing teaching certification at the FSU

2006   
Staatsexamen with honors at the Institut für Spezielle Zoologie und Evolutionsbiologie. Topic: "Analyse metrischer Gangparameter des Lisztaffen (Saguinus oedipus, Primates) bei der Fortbewegung auf geneigtem Substrat" (Analysis of metric gait parameters of Cotton-top tamarins during locomotion on inclined substrates). Supervised by M.S. Fischer and M. Schmidt.

10/2006 - 06/2010  
PhD student at the Institut für Spezielle Zoologie und Evolutionsbiologie (FSU Jena). Thesis: "On the functional morphology and locomotion of the two-toed sloth (Choloepus didactylus)". Supervised by Prof. Dr. M.S. Fischer. Readers were Prof. Dr. S. Vizcaíno (LaPlata, Argentina) and Prof. Dr. D.R. Carrier (Utah, USA).

08/2010 - 08/2011 
Postdoctoral fellow at the Institut für Spezielle Zoologie und Evolutionsbiologie (FSU Jena). Project: "Avian Bipedal Locomotion" (Funded by the DFG; Role: Researcher)

Since 08/2011
Postdoctoral fellow at the Institut für Spezielle Zoologie and Evolutionsbiologie (FSU Jena). Project: " Functional morphology of stem group amniotes from the Lower Permian" (Funded by the VW-Foundation; Role: PI)

Habitatuation of study subjects is often fun, but sometimes demanding as animals are also hungry during holidays.