Research positions

• Professor of Systems Biophysics of Microbial Dynamics, Peter Debye Institute for Soft Matter Physics , Leipzig University, since 2024.
  
• Professor of Quantitative Microbial Population Biology, Peter Debye Institute for Soft Matter Physics, Leipzig University, 2023 - 2024. 
  
• Deputy Professor of Microbiology, LMU Munich, 2021 - 2023. 
• Rowland Fellow, The Rowland Institute at Harvard, 2016-2021.
• Postdoctoral researcher with Tom Shimizu and Sander Tans, AMOLF, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 2012-2015.
• Visiting Graduate Student at the Florin Lab, University of Texas at Austin, 2006-2011.
  

Education

• Dr. rer. nat. in Physics, summa cum laude, University of Leipzig, Germany, 2012.
• Physiology Course, Marine Biology Laboratory, Woods Hole, 2008.
• M. Sc. in Physics, with distinction, University of Leipzig, Germany, 2007.
• Postgrad. Dipl. in Physics, with distinction, University of Christchurch, New Zealand, 2005.

Awards​ and honors

• Rowland Fellowship, Rowland Institute at Harvard, 2016-2021.
• Founders’ Award for Outstanding Postdoctoral Talk at BLAST XIII (Bacterial Locomotion and Signal Transduction meeting), 2015.
• Daimler Benz Foundation Doctoral Fellowship, 2007-2009.
• The Bruce and Betty Alberts Endowed Scholarship in Physiology, 2008.
• The Mountain Memorial Scholarship, 2008.
• German National Academic Foundation Scholarship (Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes), 2004-2006.
• DAAD scholarship, 2004.