| 12/2006 - present |
Head of the Biosystematics Support Unit at the International Cenmtre for Insect Physiology and Ecology - icipe, Nairobi, Kenya, a CIM supported Integrated Expert position. |
| 01/2003 - 07/2006 |
Research assisstant at the Staatlichen Museum für Naturkunde, Stuttgart, Germany, Dr. CL Häuser’s BMU/BfN-Project of the National Focal Point ‘Global Taxonomy Initiative’ a Programme of Work of the Convention on Biological Diversity.
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| 04/1999 - 01/2002 |
Research assisstant at the Sektion Biosystematische Dokumentation der Universität Ulm, Germany. |
| 01/1998 - 03/1999 |
Employment as technical head of a laboratory at the Institut für Sportwissenschaft der Friedrich-Schiller-Universiät Jena, Germany.
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| 07/1995 - 07/1998 |
PhD about the “Geometrie, Mechanik und Evolution der Flügelfaltung bei den Coleoptera” (5.5MB PDF) at the Institut für Spezielle Zoologie und Evolutionsbiologie, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena, Germany. This doctoral work was supervised by Prof. Dr. M.S. Fischer and Prof. Dr. R.G. Beutel and supported by the Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes with a PhD stipend.
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| 07/1994 - 03/1995 |
Continuation of my studies at the Eberhard-Karls-Universität, Tübingen, and taking the Diploma degree with the dissertation on “Die Phylogenie der Forficulina, eine Unterordnung der Dermaptera” (0.5MB PDF). The work was supervised by Dr. G. Mickoleit.
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| 09/1993 - 06/1994 |
Master of Philosophy about the “Geometry and mechanics of hind-wing folding in Dermaptera and Coleoptera” (2.2MB PDF) at the University of Exeter, UK, supervised by Dr. R.J. Wootton and funded by Deutschen Akademischen Austauschdienst (DAAD).
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| 10/1989 - 09/1993 |
Studies in bology at the Eberhard-Karls-Universität in Tübingen, Germany,with zoology as major and genetics and palaeontology as minors. |
| 07/1987 - 06/1989 |
National service in the German Army / Bundeswehr. |
| Spring 1987 |
Abitur at the Robert-Mayer-Gymnasium, Heilbronn, Germany. |