I am an evolutionary biologist investigating the evolution, genomics and behavior of social insects. In my work I often obtain large data sets, such as NGS data (RNAseq, DNAreseq, proteomics) but also behavioral, chemical or life history data of thousands of ant colonies. We use quantitative methods including bioinformatics and biostatistics to analyses our huge data sets. Occasionally I have been also involved in modelling papers including some using machine learning approaches. 

Positions held

Since 2010 
Professor of Evolutionary Biology, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Germany

2004-2010 
Professor of Behavioral Ecology, Ludwig Maximilians University, Munich, Germany

2000-2004 
Group leader, University of Regensburg, Germany

1998-2000 
Postdoctoral Fellow, Colorado State University, Ft. Collins, USA

Education

2004 
Habilitation in Zoology, University of Regensburg, Germany

1998 
Dr. rer. nat. in Biology, Julius-Maximilians-University Würzburg, Germany

1995 
Diploma in Biology, Julius-Maximilians-University Würzburg, Germany