2011-       Group Leader, IGB 

2009-10   Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Center for Adaptive Behavior and Cognition, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin

2009        Ph.D. in Theoretical Biology, University of Groningen, The Netherlands 

2003-05   Studies in Biology, University of Heidelberg

2002        Diploma in Economics (Diplom Volkswirt), University of Mannheim

2000-01   Studies in Economics, University of California, Berkeley, USA

Awards

Christopher Barnard Award 2014 for “Outstanding Contributions by a New Investigator” (Association for the Study of Animal Behaviour)

Reinhart Heinrich Doctoral Thesis Award for “the best doctoral thesis in the area of Mathematical and Theoretical Biology 2009” (European Society for Mathematical and Theoretical Biology)

“Cum laude” distinction for doctoral dissertation 2009: highest possible distinction that is given to a dissertation in the Netherlands, indicating that it is considered to belong to the top 5% of all doctoral dissertations

Google scholar profile

https://scholar.google.de/citations?user=teQUO1AAAAAJ&hl=de