| 2023-present |
Group leader, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany |
| 2017-2023 |
Heisenberg Fellow (DFG Heisenberg Programme), group leader, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany |
| 2008-2017 |
Animal Evolutionary Ecology Group, Institute for Evolution and Biodiversity, University of Münster, Germany. Host & collaborator: Joachim Kurtz |
| 2014-2017 – Post-doc / Junior Group Leader |
| 2012-2014 – Volkswagen Foundation Advanced Post-doctoral Fellowship |
| 2008-2012 – Volkswagen Foundation Post-doctoral Fellowship |
| 2004-2007 |
Centre for Social Evolution, University of Copenhagen, Denmark. Host & collaborator: Koos Boomsma |
| 2005-2007 – Marie Curie Intra-European Individual Post-doctoral Fellowship |
| 2005 – Carlsberg Foundation Individual Post-doctoral Fellowship |
| 2004 – Post-doc |
| 1999-2003 |
PhD, University of Sheffield, UK. Supervised by Mike Siva-Jothy |
| 1996-1999 |
BSc Zoology, University of Sheffield, UK |