from 9/2022: Member of the editorial board of Scientific Reports
from 6/2021: Member of the editorial board of Frontiers in Zoology
4/2021-3/22: Visiting professorship at the Amphibian Research Center, Hiroshima University, Japan
2020/21: Co-guest editor Phil. Trans. Roy. Soc. B
2019: Workshop co-organizer “Paradigm shift in sex chromosome evolution: Conceptual and empirical challenges from studies in vertebrates ” (DFG: STO 493/5-1; IGB), Berlin; hosted Sept. 19-22, 2019 ; see Abstracts
3/2019: signed “Scientists for Future “-Declaration
8/2018: Workshop co-organizer “Connecting population genetics and developmental biology to elucidate vertebrate sex evolution”, Prague
6/2018: Invited reviewer to the Research Council of Norway (RCN) on “Integrated multi-stressor impacts on ecosystems”
from 2018: Associate editor of BMC Ecology and Evolution BMC Evolutionary Biology )
3/2018: Invited speaker at the International Symposium “Amphibian development, regeneration, evolution and beyond ” at Hiroshima University, Japan
12/2017-03/2021: Researcher and coordinator of the STURGEoNOMICS project
2017: Co-organizer of the symposium “Evolutionary implications of hybridization” on the ESEB congress in Groningen
2014-2021: Member of the editorial board of the Journal of Evolutionary Biology European Society for Evolutionary Biology, ESEB )
2014-7/2021: Academic editor of PLOS ONE here
2013-5/2020: Associate editor of Amphibia-Reptilia
from 2012: Heisenberg-Fellow (DFG) at the Leibniz-Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries (IGB; Forschungsverbund Berlin, Germany)Ass. Professor (‘Privat-Dozent’) at the Humboldt-University Berlin
2009-2011: Ass. Professor (‘Privat-Docent’), Department of Ecology and Evolution, University of Lausanne
2006-2011: First Assistant with Prof. Nicolas Perrin , University of Lausanne
2006: Guest researcher with Prof. Dr. Manfred Schartl (University of Würzburg , Germany) collaborative research group (SFB) “Mechanisms of interspecific interactions of organisms”
2003-2006: Postdoctoral fellow of German Research Foundation (DFG), co-funded by Profs. David B. Wake (see also NYT , and UC Berkeley obituaries in 2021), and Craig Moritz , Museum of Vertebrate Zoology (MVZ) , University of California , Berkeley, USA
2003-2006: Guest researcher in the DOE Joint Genome Institute , Walnut Creek, California, USA
2001-2003: Scientific collaborator Natural History Museum of Dresden , Germany
1996-2001: Graduate student, Institute of Zoology, Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg , Germany; Doctoral Degree (Dr. rer. nat.)
1989-1995: Studies in Biology, Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg , Major: Zoology, Minor: Genetics, Botany, Geography; Diploma in Biology
Evolution of Animals with focus on Amphibians and Fish 