Academic career
2018 Appointed as Research Group Leader
"Metabolic Interactions" at Max-Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology in the Department of Symbiosis
01/2014
Offer for Juniorprofessur Chemische Biologie at University of Marburg - declined
11/2013
Research associate at Max-Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology, Bremen, Department of Symbiosis
Mass spectral imaging of metabolites and proteins in host-microbe interactions, metabolic profiling, isotopologue flux analysis in marine symbiosis
From 12/2013
Honorary Research Associate at Imperial College London
6/2010 - 10/2013
Research associate at Imperial College London, Dept. of Surgery and Cancer, Faculty of Medicine, Computational and Systems Biology, HoD Professor Jeremy Nicholson, group of Dr. J. Bundy,
main topic: environmental metabolomics, especially metabolic profiling on invertebrates; analytical method development, mass spectral imaging of metabolites in animal and plant tissue
12/2006-5/2010
PhD student at the Institute of Pharmacy, Dept. of pharmaceutical biology, University of Greifswald, Germany; 11/2010 PhD in pharmaceutical biology
Thesis: “Establishment and application of techniques for microbial metabolomics”,
Advisor: Professor Dr. M. Lalk
12/2006 Approbation as pharmacist
11/2005-05/2006 diploma thesis at the Institute of Pharmacy, Dept. of medicinal and pharmaceutical chemistry, University of Greifswald
Thesis: “Correlations between the cytotoxicity of anticancer drugs, especially platinum(IV) complexes and the enzymatic status in different human cancer cell lines”,
Advisor: Professor PJ. Bednarski
Education
2001-2005 studies in pharmacy at the University of Greifswald, Germany; main fields: pharmaceutical chemistry, biology, technology and pharmacology
Publications
52 peer-reviewed publications (13 first-/shared-first authorships), 1 book-chapter
Google Scholar
h-factor: 26 (google scholar - 4/2019)
Presentations
2016 International Society for Microbial Ecology ISME meeting - Montreal
Session Chair - Novel Methods in Microbial Ecology
2016 Microbiology and Infection Seminar - Greifswald
2016 Invited Seminar - Microbiology - Aarhus
2015 Invited Seminar - Microbial Ecology -Vienna
2015 Invited Speaker - OurCon - International Mass-spectrometry Imaging conference - Pisa
2014 Workshop presentation on MALDI‐imaging - DFG MALDI‐MULTI Core Facility workshop
2013 Bremen MS Seminars series - From structure to function - locating metabolites with high resolution mass spectral imaging approaches
2013 Invited talk for a position as Junior-Professor "Chemical Biology" University of Marburg, Germany
2013 Invited seminar talk at Max-Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology, Bremen, Germany
2013 “metabolomics society conference” in Glasgow, UK
2012 “Above-ground, below-ground interactions” in London, UK
2012 “From molecules to targets” in Greifswald, Germany - invited
2011 “metabomeeting” in Helsinki, Finland
2010 “metabolomics society conference” in Edmonton, Canada
2008 “German Pharmaceutical Society conference” in Bonn, Germany
2008 “20th natural products conference” in Irsee, Germany
2007 “German Pharmaceutical Society conference” in Erlangen, Germany
Scholarships
2009-2010
Alfried-Krupp von Bohlen and Halbach PhD scholarship “A Functional Genomics Approach to Infection Biology”
2005-2006
“Apotheker-Paul-Marshall” scholarship for diploma thesis
Awards
2012 travel-fellowship from “Fonds der chemischen Industrie”
2010 travel-award received for presentation at “metabolomics society conference”
2008 “innovative method” poster-award at “20th natural products conference”, Irsee
Teaching Experience
2014-2019 Marine microbiology practical course (2 weeks), Dept. of Symbiosis, MPI Bremen
2013 Teaching assistant "Pharmacology - metabolism seminar" Imperial College London
2008/2010 Teaching assistant “pharmaceutical biology”, practical course and seminars, University of Greifswald
2008-2010 Assistant for instruction and supervision of diploma students in “pharmaceutical biology”, University of Greifswald
Academic Service and Societies
Member of Biochemical Society, Metabolomics Society, VAAM,
German Pharmaceutical Society (DPhG)
Editorial Board Membership
Metabolites, mSystems
2018 Appointed as Research Group Leader
"Metabolic Interactions" at Max-Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology in the Department of Symbiosis
01/2014
Offer for Juniorprofessur Chemische Biologie at University of Marburg - declined
11/2013
Research associate at Max-Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology, Bremen, Department of Symbiosis
Mass spectral imaging of metabolites and proteins in host-microbe interactions, metabolic profiling, isotopologue flux analysis in marine symbiosis
From 12/2013
Honorary Research Associate at Imperial College London
6/2010 - 10/2013
Research associate at Imperial College London, Dept. of Surgery and Cancer, Faculty of Medicine, Computational and Systems Biology, HoD Professor Jeremy Nicholson, group of Dr. J. Bundy,
main topic: environmental metabolomics, especially metabolic profiling on invertebrates; analytical method development, mass spectral imaging of metabolites in animal and plant tissue
12/2006-5/2010
PhD student at the Institute of Pharmacy, Dept. of pharmaceutical biology, University of Greifswald, Germany; 11/2010 PhD in pharmaceutical biology
Thesis: “Establishment and application of techniques for microbial metabolomics”,
Advisor: Professor Dr. M. Lalk
12/2006 Approbation as pharmacist
11/2005-05/2006 diploma thesis at the Institute of Pharmacy, Dept. of medicinal and pharmaceutical chemistry, University of Greifswald
Thesis: “Correlations between the cytotoxicity of anticancer drugs, especially platinum(IV) complexes and the enzymatic status in different human cancer cell lines”,
Advisor: Professor PJ. Bednarski
Education
2001-2005 studies in pharmacy at the University of Greifswald, Germany; main fields: pharmaceutical chemistry, biology, technology and pharmacology
Publications
52 peer-reviewed publications (13 first-/shared-first authorships), 1 book-chapter
Google Scholar
h-factor: 26 (google scholar - 4/2019)
Presentations
2016 International Society for Microbial Ecology ISME meeting - Montreal
Session Chair - Novel Methods in Microbial Ecology
2016 Microbiology and Infection Seminar - Greifswald
2016 Invited Seminar - Microbiology - Aarhus
2015 Invited Seminar - Microbial Ecology -Vienna
2015 Invited Speaker - OurCon - International Mass-spectrometry Imaging conference - Pisa
2014 Workshop presentation on MALDI‐imaging - DFG MALDI‐MULTI Core Facility workshop
2013 Bremen MS Seminars series - From structure to function - locating metabolites with high resolution mass spectral imaging approaches
2013 Invited talk for a position as Junior-Professor "Chemical Biology" University of Marburg, Germany
2013 Invited seminar talk at Max-Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology, Bremen, Germany
2013 “metabolomics society conference” in Glasgow, UK
2012 “Above-ground, below-ground interactions” in London, UK
2012 “From molecules to targets” in Greifswald, Germany - invited
2011 “metabomeeting” in Helsinki, Finland
2010 “metabolomics society conference” in Edmonton, Canada
2008 “German Pharmaceutical Society conference” in Bonn, Germany
2008 “20th natural products conference” in Irsee, Germany
2007 “German Pharmaceutical Society conference” in Erlangen, Germany
Scholarships
2009-2010
Alfried-Krupp von Bohlen and Halbach PhD scholarship “A Functional Genomics Approach to Infection Biology”
2005-2006
“Apotheker-Paul-Marshall” scholarship for diploma thesis
Awards
2012 travel-fellowship from “Fonds der chemischen Industrie”
2010 travel-award received for presentation at “metabolomics society conference”
2008 “innovative method” poster-award at “20th natural products conference”, Irsee
Teaching Experience
2014-2019 Marine microbiology practical course (2 weeks), Dept. of Symbiosis, MPI Bremen
2013 Teaching assistant "Pharmacology - metabolism seminar" Imperial College London
2008/2010 Teaching assistant “pharmaceutical biology”, practical course and seminars, University of Greifswald
2008-2010 Assistant for instruction and supervision of diploma students in “pharmaceutical biology”, University of Greifswald
Academic Service and Societies
Member of Biochemical Society, Metabolomics Society, VAAM,
German Pharmaceutical Society (DPhG)
Editorial Board Membership
Metabolites, mSystems
