Education

2007 - 2011	Max Planck Institute for Ornithology, Germany - Dr. rer. nat. (PhD) in May 2011 - Magna cum laude, University of Tübingen, Germany - Advisor: PD Dr. Björn M. Siemers (*1982 - †2012)
1997 - 2003	University of Munich, Munich, Germany - Diploma in Biology (Neurobiology, Ecology, Genetics, Computer Science)

Professional activities in research

2013 - current	Adam Mickiewicz University Poznan, Poland Marie-Curie-Fellow at Dept. for Systematic Zoology (Prof. Leszek Rychlik)
2011 - 2013	Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology, Germany Postdoc at Dept. for Evolutionary Genetics (Prof. Diethard Tautz)
2006 - 2011	Max Planck Institute for Ornithology, Germany PhD student in the Sensory Ecology Group (PD Dr. Björn Siemers)

Other professional activities

2005 - 2006	University of Munich, Germany employed in founder program EXIST-SEED (with Prof. Dr. York Winter)
2004 - 2005	St. Petersburgische Zeitung in St. Petersburg, Russia: journalistic and editorial internship
2003 - 2004	University of Munich, Germany: technical assistant (Prof. Dr. York Winter)

Supervision and teaching

2015	Teaching the German Journal Club, compulsory optional seminar for master students, at the Adam Mickewicz University Poznan, Faculty of Biology
2014	Second supervisor of a master thesis (Master program "Environmental Protection") at the Adam Mickewicz University Poznan, Faculty of Biology
	External second supervisor of a master thesis of the Kiel University, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, conducted at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology, Plön
2013	Supervision of a master student in the course of an six-week scientific practical of the Kiel University, Germany
2012	Supervision of a master student in the course of an eight-week scientific practical of the University of Munich, Germany
2009	Supervision of an US-American undergraduate student in-line with the RISE program of the DAAD
2007 - 2009	Teaching of a practical course in line with the compulsory "Grosspraktikum Tierphysiologie" of the University of Tübingen

Grants and awards

2013	Marie-Curie-Fellowship IEF (Call FP7-PEOPLE-2012-IEF), Project No 332331 - PersonaLiHi
2012	Price for best talk at the Aquavit Workshop of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology, Germany: Ultrasound Vocalisation of Wild House Mice
2009	EES Travel Fund of the University of Munich: financial support to attend the Animal Sonar Symposium in Kyoto, Japan
2009	Assistant US-American undergraduate student paid by the RISE program of the DAAD (Research Internships in Science and Engineering; funding applied for and received in cooperation with Stefan Greif)

Attended courses and workshops

2012	2nd Russian-German Young Researchers Cooperation Forum (see 2011) in Halle, Germany
2011	1st Russian-German Young Researchers Cooperation Forum organised by the Leopoldina (Junge Akademie) and the Russian Academy of Sciences (Young Academy) in Moscow, Russia
2010	Summer School in Ecology and Biodiversity - bioseb (Marie Curie Actions FP6) in Bialowieza, Poland
2009	Summer Course Acoustic Communication, in Odense, Denmark
2005 - 2006	Monthly trainings for founders in line with the EXIST-SEED program of the BMBF (German ministry of education and research), in Munich, Germany

Ad hoc referee

Journals:	Acta Theriologica Frontiers in Zoology Integrative Zoology Journal of Experimental Biology
Institutions:	Israel Science Foundation

Other skills and interests

software	programming: Matlab, R, Visual Basic, HTML using: Adobe Audition, SPSS
languages	German: native English: fluent Russian: advanced knowledge French: good knowledge Polish: basic knowledge Portuguese: basic knowledge Latin: basic school knowledge
interests	Yoga, practical and philosophical

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