Curriculum Vitae

Main areas of research
plant adaptation to biotic and abiotic stresses, plant-pathogen coevolution Methods: population genetics/genomics, protein biochemistry, plant pathology

Education

05/2011 PhD in Biology (Dr. rer. nat.), Department of Evolutionary Biology, LMU Munich, Germany

02/2007 Diplom (Master of Science) in Biology, LMU Munich, Germany

Scientific career

since 10/2014 Assistant Professor, Department of Ecology and Evolution, University of Salzburg, Salzburg, Austria

10/2013-09/2014 Postdoctoral Research Fellow (Marie Curie Intra-Europ. Fellowship) Department of Plant Sciences, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK

04/2013-09/2013      Post-doctoral Researcher in the Plant Chemetics Group, Max Planck Institute                                    for Plant Breeding Research, Cologne, Germany
01/2012-03/2013      Post-doctoral Researcher in the Department of Plant Sciences, University of                                      Oxford, Oxford, UK
05/2011-12/2011      Post-doctoral Researcher in the Plant Chemetics Group, Max Planck Institute                                    for Plant Breeding Research, Cologne, Germany
06/2007-04/2011      PhD Thesis at the Department of Evolutionary Biology, LMU, Munich                                     “Evolution of disease resistance genes in wild tomato species”
05/2006-02/2007      Master Thesis at the Department of Evolutionary Biology, LMU, Munich                                 “Sequence evolution of the resistance genes Rcr3 und Rin4 in wild                            tomatoes (Lycopersicon peruvianum)”

Scientific activities
Reviewer for international journals (Molecular Biology and Evolution, BMC Evolutionary Biology, Flora, Tree Genetics and Genomes, Plant Molecular Biology Reporter)