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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

 

 

New publications

2016
PloS ONE
Context Dependent Vocalization in Female Mice

 

2015
Ecological Informatics
Acoustic Species Identification of Shrews...

 

2014
PloS ONE
Ultrasonic vocalisation ... of the house mouse

 

 

 

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