Curriculum vitae

Academic experience

2022 - 2024

Postdoctoral researcher at the National Herbarium New South at the Australian Botanic Garden Mount Annan funded by a Walter-Benjamin grant of the German research foundation (DFG)

research project "Floral evolution of Ericales"

2017 - 2020

Research assistant at the Department for Evolution and Biodiversity of Plants at the Ruhr-Universität Bochum

supervising bachelor and master candidates
teaching undergrad courses in plant identification
leading undergrad field excursion

2016

Research-internship at the Chicago Botanic Garden, Chicago, Il, USA, supervised by Dr. Fabiany Herrera and Dr. Patrick Herendeen

2015 - 2016

Student assistant at the Department for Evolution and Biodiversity of Plants at the Ruhr-Universität Bochum

teaching undergrad courses in plant identification
leading undergrad field excursion

Grants

2022 - 2024

Walter-Benjamin Postdoctoral Fellowship of the German Research Foundation (DFG) with the project "Floral evolution in Ericales" hosted at the National Herbarium NSW by Herve Sauquet

Conferences

Herting, J., Schönenberger, J., & Sauquet, H. (2023). The ancestral flower of Ericales. Biosystematics 2023, Canberra, ACT, Australia.

Herting, J., Schönenberger, J., & Sauquet, H. (2022). Profile of a flower: How rates of morphological evolution drive floral diversification in Ericales [Talk]. Australasian Systematic Botany Society: Student and Early Career Research Conference, Mt Annan, NSW, Australia. pdf

Herting, J., Stützel, T., & Klaus, K. V. (2019). The original conifer cone - What did it look like? [Poster] Evolution 2019, Providence, RI, USA. pdf

Talks and Seminars

Floral evolution in Ericales (2023), invited talk at Beadle Herbarium, University of New England, Armidale, NSW, Australia

Ancestral state reconstruction and the ancestral flowe of Ericales (2023), invited guest lecture at the University of New England, Armidale, NSW, Australia

Education

2017 – 2020

PhD in Biology with distinction at the Department for Evolution and Biodiversity of Plants at the Ruhr-Universität Bochum in Bochum, Germany

Thesis title: “The evolution of the coniferous seed cone”, supervised by Prof. Dr. Thomas Stützel

2014 – 2017

Master of Science in Biology at the Department for Evolution and Biodiversity of Plants at the Ruhr-Universität Bochum in Bochum, Germany

2011 – 2014

Bachelor of Science in Biology at the Department for Evolution and Biodiversity of Plants at the Ruhr-Universität Bochum in Bochum, Germany

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