CV Higher Education

Sep 2022 –  now

Senior Research Fellow, Prof. Troy Margrie 

Sainsbury Wellcome Centre, London (United Kingdom) 

Sep 2019 – Aug 2022

Research Fellow, Prof. Troy Margrie 

Sainsbury Wellcome Centre, London (United Kingdom) 

Aug 2018 –  Jul 2019

Research Fellow, Department of Synapses – Circuits – Plasticity, Prof. Tobias Bonhoeffer

Max Planck Institute of Neurobiology, Martinsried (Germany)

Jul 2013 –  Jul 2018

PhD student, Graduate School of Systemic Neurosciences (GSN-LMU)

Department of Synapses – Circuits – Plasticity, Prof. Tobias Bonhoeffer

Max Planck Institute of Neurobiology, Martinsried (Germany)

Supervisor: Dr. Volker Scheuss

Topic: Integrated circuit analysis of the mouse visual system

Oct 2012 – Apr 2013

Master’s thesis research project

InnerEarLab, Department of Otolaryngology, Prof. Tobias Moser

University Göttingen (Germany)

Supervisor: Prof. Tobias Moser

Topic: Pharmacological modulation of inner hair cell synaptic transmission

Oct 2011 – Apr 2013

 Master of Science in Neuroscience

International Max Planck Research School (IMPRS)

Georg-August-Universität Göttingen

Research project 1: The role of ATP in inner hair cell synaptic transmission, InnerEarLab, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Prof. Tobias Moser

Research project 2: Comparison of electrophysiological and anatomical properties of GABAergic inhibitory interneurons in layer 2/3 of mouse barrel cortex, Neuroanatomy, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Prof. Jochen Staiger

Research project 3: Tracking of the synaptic life-cycle in vitro. STED Microscopy of Synaptic Function, European Neuroscience Institute Göttingen, Prof. Silvio Rizzoli

Oct 2007 – Oct 2010

Bachelor of Science in Biology

Carl-von-Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg (Germany), University of Queensland, Brisbane (Australia)

BSc thesis project, Cognitive and behavioral neuroscience, Prof. Bruno van Swinderen

Queensland Brain Institute, Brisbane (Australia)