1998 - 2002 Studies of biology at Universities of Regensburg and Rostock (Germany) 2002 Diploma thesis with MJ Crawley, Imperial College, Silwood Park, UK 2002 Diploma (MSc equivalent) in biology, University of Rostock (Germany) 2002 - 2006 PhD in ecology with Wolfgang W. Weisser, University of Jena (Germany) 2006 - 2015 Postdoc (Agroecology) with Teja Tscharntke, University of Goettingen (Germany) 2015 Full professor of Animal Ecology at University of Muenster (Germany) since 2015 Head of Animal Ecology and multitrophic interactions lab