Academic positions
2007 to present: Postdoctoral research associate. Department of Neurobiology and Behavior, Cornell University.

2007 Postdoctoral research associate. Center for Neurodynamics, University of Missouri St Louis.

2003 to 2006 Graduate student / Scientific employee. Department of Comparative Neurophysiology, University of Bonn.

Education
Ph.D.    University of Bonn, Germany, Department of Comparative Neurophysiology, University of Bonn, December 2006. Advisor: Horst Bleckmann. Dissertation title: Electrophysiological investigations of the anterior and posterior lateral line nerve of the Goldfish, Carassius auratus, to running water and oscillatory stimuli.

Diploma University of Bonn, Germany, Department of Comparative Neurophysiology, University of Bonn, April 2003. Advisor: Horst Bleckmann. Diploma thesis title: Responses of posterior lateral line afferents to vortex rings

Awards/Fellowships

2007     Heiligenberg Student Travel Award
2006     FENS Student Travel Award
1997     Scholar price of the German Chemical Industry

Teaching experience
Teaching assistant, University of Bonn, Germany, “Neurophysiology of the lateral line” Fall 2005 Instructor Horst Bleckmann, Ph.D. Supervised students recording from primary lateral line afferent fibers
Teaching assistant, University of Bonn, Germany, “Neurophysiology of the lateral line” Fall 2004 Instructor Horst Bleckmann, Ph.D. Supervised students recording from primary lateral line afferent fibers
Teaching assistant, University of Bonn, Germany, “Neurophysiology of the lateral line” Fall 2003 Instructor Horst Bleckmann, Ph.D. Supervised students recording from primary lateral line afferent fibers
Teaching assistant, University of Bonn, Germany, “Behavior and Cognition” Summer 2003 Instructor Horst Bleckmann, Ph.D. Supervised students in behavioral experiments with mice and fish
Teaching assistant, University of Bonn, Germany, “Neuroanatomy” Fall 2002 Instructor Michael H. Hofmann, Ph.D. Assisted students with basic methods of neuroanatomy on sturgeons and goldfish
Teaching assistant, University of Bonn, Germany, “Cell biology / Neurobiology” Fall 2002 Instructor Horst Bleckmann, Ph.D.