CV

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)”