2017 -
Akademischer Rat (equivalent to permanent Assistant Professorship, start date January 1, 2017), Comparative Zoology, Institute for Evolution and Ecology, Eberhard Karls University, Tübingen, Germany
2011 - 2016
Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter (equivalent to non-tenure track Assistant Professor), Comparative Zoology, Institute for Evolution and Ecology, Eberhard Karls University, Tübingen, Germany
2007 - 2011
Postdoctoral Scholar, Center for Tropical Research, Institute of the Environment, University of California, Los Angeles
2005 - 2006
Curatorial assistant at the National Museum for Natural History, Naturalis, Leiden, The Netherlands
2005 - 2006
Postdoctoral researcher at the sections of Animal Ecology, Integrative Zoology and Behavioural Biology, Leiden University, Leiden, The Netherlands
2000 - 2005
Ph.D. student at the section of Evolutionary Morphology, Leiden University, Leiden, The Netherlands. Dissertation: “Swift as sound. Design and evolution of the echolocation system in Swiftlets (Apodidae: Collocaliini)”