since 10/2022 Professor for Behavioural Ecology (W3), Bielefeld University
01/2020 Professor for Behavioural Ecology (W2), Bielefeld University
2014 – 2022 Freigeist-Fellow and Independent Group Leader: Function and mechanism of olfactory kin recognition in a songbird, funded through the Volkswagen Foundation
2015/2016 Fellow at the Wissenschaftskolleg Berlin, CFLS
2008 – 2014 Postdoc, Department of Animal Behaviour, Bielefeld University
2008 PhD at the Humboldt University in Berlin, Olfactory communication in the greater sac-winged bat
Academic Distinctions
2015 College for Life Sciences Fellowship, Wissenschaftskolleg Berlin
2013 Freigeist Fellowship of the Volkswagen Foundation
2012 Niko Tinbergen Award, Biannual award Ethologische Gesellschaft e.V.