Research interests
Chemical signalling and olfactory communication in vertebrates
Reproductive strategies
Sexual selection
plese find my personal webpage here link
Avian Olfaction Project
funded by the Volkswagen Foundation
Chemcial signalling in Greater sac-winged bats link
Chemical signalling in Antarctic Fur Seals (in cooperation with Joe Hoffman)
Mating strategies in Fire Salamanders link
At the moment we are running or planning various projects in which you can get involved as a bachelor student or master student. If you are interested please contact me by e-mail
October 2015 - March 2016 Fellow at the Wissenschaftskolleg Berlin
since 07/2014 Group Leader Function and mechanism of olfactory kin recognition in an avian model system
2014 Freigeist Fellow of the VolkswagenFoundation
08/12-06/14 Postdoc with Oliver Krüger, Bielefeld University
2012 Niko Tinbergen Award of the Ethologische Gesellschaft
07/09 - 07/12 Postdoc with Sebastian Steinfartz, Bielefeld University, Mechanisms of adaptive speciation in fire salamanders
05/09 Birth of my son Leander
02/08 - 02/09 Research assistant with Sebastian Steinfartz
01/06 - 11/06 Grant of the „Berliner Chancengleichheitsprogramm“ Humboldt Universität Berlin
04/06 Birth of my daughter Dana
09/02 – 12/07 Ph.D. -student at the Leibniz-Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research, IZW (Berlin), incl. Childcare
10/97 - 12/01 University Bielefeld
04/95 - 09/97 Johannes-Gutenberg-University, Mainz
06/94 Abitur at the Einstein Gymnasium Rheda-Wiedenbrück
Olfactory communication in the greater sac-winged bat, Saccopteryx bilineata
Sexuelle Prägung auf ein evolutiv neues Schmuckmerkmal beim Zebrafinken, Taenopygia guttata (Universität Bielefeld; Betreuerin: Prof. Dr. Klaudia Witte)
