Education and employment history
10.2018 – Research Assistant with Prof. Katie Peichel, University of Bern, Switzerland
10.2015 – 08.2018 Postdoc with Prof. Dolph Schluter, University of British Columbia, Canada
01.2015 – 09.2015 Postdoctoral appointment with Prof. Walter Salzburger, Zoological Institute, University of Basel
11.2011 – 12.2014 PhD studies with PD. Daniel Berner, Zoological Institute, University of Basel
11.2009 – 10.2011 MSc studies with Prof. Walter Salzburger & Dr. Daniel Berner, Zoological Institute, University of Basel
10.2006 – 06.2009 BSc studies in Organismal Biology, University of Basel, Switzerland
Stipends, Grants, Awards (selection)
2021 Research Grant awarded by the Burgergemeinde Bern
2019 Research Grant ‘Open round’ awarded by the University of Bern
2018 Research Grant awarded by the Naturforschende Gesellschaft in Basel
2017 Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) Advanced Postdoc.Mobility Fellowship
2016 Stipend from the Janggen-Pöhn-Stiftung
2015 Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) Early Postdoc.Mobility Fellowship
2015 Nominee for the John Maynard Smith Prize of the European Society for Evolutionary Biology (ESEB)
2013 Travel Grant from the University of Basel for the Congress of the European Society for Evol. Biol. (ESEB) in Lisbon
2014 Travel Grant from the University of Basel for the Conference Genomes to/aux Biomes in Montreal
2012 Rosemary Grant Award for Graduate Student Research from the Society for the Study of Evolution (SSE)
2012 Travel Award from the American Genetic Association (AGA) for the 7th Conference on Stickleback Behavior & Evolution in Seattle
2012 Travel Grant from the Swiss Zoological Society
2011 Travel Award from the Swiss Academy of Sciences (SCNAT) for field studies in Zambia
Reviewing and editorial activities
Reviewer for journals & funding agencies (>50 total reviews): American National Science Foundation (NSF), Axios Review, Biology Letters, BMC Evolutionary Biology, Current Biology, eLife, Evolution, Evolutionary Applications, Evolutionary Ecology, Evolutionary Ecology Research, Evolution Letters, G3, Genome Biology and Evolution, Heredity, Journal of Evolutionary Biology, Molecular Biology and Evolution, Molecular Ecology, Molecular Ecology Resources, Nature Ecology and Evolution, Organisms Diversity and Evolution, PLoS Genetics, Proceedings of the Royal Society B, Science Advances
Review Editor at Frontiers (Section: Evolutionary and Population Genetics)
Teaching activities (selection)
Main and Co-supervisor of several MSc and BSc thesis students
Lecturing on ‘Methods in Ecology and Evolution’, ‘Evolutionary Biology’, and the ‘Practical in Evolutionary Ecology Research’
Recent conference and seminar contributions (selection)
2024 Conference Talk, RecomBern Meeting, University of Bern (Switzerland)
2024 Conference Talk, ESEB Meeting, Montreal (Canada)
2024 Conference Talk, Genetics of Migration, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biolology, Plön (Germany)
2023 Invited Seminar Talk, University of Basel (Switzerland)
2023 Conference Talk, Biology23 meeting, University of Geneva (Switzerland)
2022 Conference Talk, 20th Conference on Stickleback Behavior and Evolution, Holar (Iceland)
2022 Seminar Talk, ETH Zurich (Switzerland)
2021 ESEB Satellite Symposium on reproductive isolation, Online
2020 Two Online student seminars, University of Lethbridge (Canada)
2020 Conference Talk, biology20 meeting, Fribourg (Switzerland)
2019 Gordon Research Conference on Speciation, Ventura, CA (USA)
2019 Conference Poster, biology19 meeting, Zurich (Switzerland)
2017 Seminar Talk, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Calgary (Canada)
2017 Conference Talk, Canadian Society for Ecology and Evolution (CSEE) Meeting in Victoria (Canada)
2016 Seminar Talk, Biodiversity Research Center and Zoology Department, UBC (Canada)
2015 Seminar Talk, Center for Ecological and Evolutionary Synthesis (CEES) Oslo (Norway)
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