Curriculum vitae

School

1981-1985 Primary School, Leonberg-Höfingen, Germany

1985-1991 Johannes-Kepler-Grammar School, Leonberg, Germany

1991-1994 Science and Technic Grammar School Kerschensteinerschule, Stuttgart-Feuerbach, Germany

Scientific education

1996-2001 Study of Biology at the Eberhard-Karls-University of  Tübingen, Germany

1999

Integrated foreign study as a DAAD-stipend at the University of Sao Paulo (USP), Campus Ribeirao

Preto, Brazil.

Conducting a project dealing with the venom of the Brazilian ctenid spider Phoneutria nigriventer.

10.2001

Diploma [~ Master’s Degree] in biology (main subject: animal physiology; minor subjects: zoology

and pharmacology)

Title of the diploma-thesis: „Effects of state of nutrition, growth and sex on the quantity and

composition of Phoneutria nigriventer (Keyserling, 1891) spider venom”

Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Wagner Ferreira dos Santos (USP, Ribeirao Preto, Brazil)

08.2004

Ph.D. in biology at the Dept. of Neuropharmacology, Zoological Institute, University of Tübingen, Germany

Title of Ph.D.-thesis: „The role of glutamate during expression of conditoned reward with consideration

of the influence of the amygdala”

Supervisors: Prof. Dr. Werner J. Schmidt (University of Tübingen, Germany)

Scientific employments

08.2004 - 04.2005

Research scientist at the Dept. of Neuropharmacology, Zoological Institute, University of Tübingen,

Germany

05.2005 - 04.2006

DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service)-sponsored postdoctoral fellow at Monash Venom Group,

Dept. of Pharmacology, Monash University, Australia

05.2006 - 04.2007

DFG (German Science Foundation)-sponsored postdoctoral fellow at Monash Venom Group,

Dept. of Pharmacology, Monash University, Australia

05.2007 - 04.2008

ARC (Australian Research Council) International Fellow at Monash Venom Group,

Dept. of Pharmacology, Monash University, Australia

Other

Foundation member of the German Arachnoogical Society (= Deutsche Arachnologische Gesellschaft,

DeArGe, http://www.dearge.de/) and being active as an advisor for biochemistry and toxicology

(http://www.dearge.de/arachne/fachbeirat.php) for the DeArGe journal ‚Arachne’