Wissenschaftlicher Lebenslauf

Geburtsdatum und Geburtsort:
23 Juli 1977 in Linz, Österreich

1996-2001: Student an der Universität Innsbruck, Österreich (Biologie)
2000-2001: Diplomarbeit: Phylogenetic analysis of the adaptive radiation of the Tanganyikan cichlid-tribe Ectodini. Institut für Zoologie und Limnologie, Universität Innsbruck, Österreich
2001: Diplomprüfung "Magister der Naturwissenschaften"
2001-2005: Doktorarbeit: Molecular genetics of the adaptive radiation of Tanganyikan cichlids. Institut für Zoologie, Universität Graz, Österreich
2005: Graduierung zum "Doktor der Naturwissenschaften"
2005-2008: Post-Doc am Institut für Zoologie, Universität Graz, Österreich
2008-2009: Post-Doc in der Quaternary Genetics Gruppe am Department of Evolutionary Biology, Evolutionary Biology Centre (EBC), Uppsala University, Schweden
2009-2010: Universitätsassistent am Institut für Zoologie, Universität Graz, Österreich
2011: Post-Doc an derEstación Biológica de Doñana, CSIC, Sevilla, Spanien
2011-2017: Universitätsassistent am Institut für Zoologie, Universität Graz, Österreich
2013 & 2019: Gastwissenschafter am Institute of Vertebrate Biology, Akademie der Wissenschaften, Brünn, Tschechien
2015: Habilitation in Zoologie & Evolutionsbiologie am Institut für Zoologie, Universität Graz, Österreich; Habilitationsschrift: "Animal diversification: lessons from East African cichlid fishes and North American wolf-like canids"
2017-2018: Lecturer/Teaching Scientist am Institut für Zoologie, Universität Graz, Österreich
2018-....: Senior Lecturer/Teaching Scientist am Institut für Biologie, Universität Graz, Österreich

Theodor-Körner-Preis (2011)
Cichliden-Förderpreis der Deutschen Cichliden-Gesellschaft (DCG) (2006)

Deutsche Cichliden-Gesellschaft (DCG)
European Society for Evolutionary Biology (ESEB)
Fisheries Society of the British Isles (FSBI)
Gesellschaft für Biologische Systematik (GfBS)
Network of Biological Systematics Austria (NOBIS Austria)
Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution (SMBE)
Society of Systematic Biologists (SSB)
Society for the Study of Evolution (SSE)

Austrian Barcode Of Life (ABOL): Lenkungsausschuss (seit 2014)
Network of Biological Systematics Austria (NOBIS Austria): Beirat (seit 2014)

Acta Ichthyologica et Piscatoria
African Journal of Biotechnology
African Journal of Ecology
African Zoology
American Journal of Experimental Agriculture
Animal Behaviour
Animals
Annual Review & Research in Biology
Aquaculture and Fisheries
Aquaculture Research
Aquatic Conservation: Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems
Asian Journal of Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology
Axios Review
Behavioral Ecology
Belgian Journal of Zoology
Biological Conservation
Biological Journal of the Linnean Society
Biology
Biology Letters
Biotechnology and Molecular Biology Reviews
BMC Evolutionary Biology
BMC Genomics
BMC Zoology
Bonorowo Wetlands
British Journal of Applied Science & Technology
Communications Biology
Conservation Genetics
Current Biology
Diversity
Ecological Genetics and Genomics
Ecology and Evolution
Ecology Letters
Ecology of Freshwater Fish
Écoscience
Egyptian Journal of Aquatic Research
Environmental Biology of Fishes
Ethology
Evolution
Evolutionary Applications
Evolutionary Biology
Forests
Fragmenta Faunistica
Freshwater Biology
Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution
Frontiers in Marine Science
Frontiers in Zoology
Gene
Genes
Genetica
Genome Biology and Evolution
Global Ecology and Biogeography
Heliyon
Heredity
Hydrobiologia
International Journal of Molecular Sciences
Iranian Journal of Applied Animal Science
iScience
Journal of Biogeography
Journal of Evolutionary Biology
Journal of Fish Biology
Journal of Forensic Science and Medicine
Journal of Great Lakes Research
Journal of Heredity
Journal of Oceanography and Marine Science
Journal of Sea Research
Journal of Vertebrate Biology
Journal of Zoological Systematics and Evolutionary Research
Life
Mammal Research
Mediterranean Marine Science
Molecular Biology and Evolution
Molecular Biology Reports
Molecular Ecology
Molecular Ecology Resources
Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution
Neotropical Entomology
Organisms Diversity & Evolution
PeerJ
PLoS One
Polar Biology
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA
Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
Remote Sensing
Revista de Biología Tropical
Royal Society Open Science
Scientific Reports
SpringerPlus
Sustainability
Thalassas
The Journal of Basic & Applied Zoology
Uttar Pradesh Journal of Zoology
Vertebrate Zoology
Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society
Zoologica Scripta
Zoology and Ecology
Wellcome Open Research

Diversity: Lead guest editor for special issue "DNA Barcodes for Evolution and Biodiversity" (since 2021)
Diversity: Editorial Board (since 2019)
Hydrobiologia: Lead guest editor for special issue series "Advances in Cichlid Research: Behavior, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology" (since 2013)
Journal of Zoological Systematics and Evolutionary Research: Editor (2018 - 2021)
BioMed Research International: Editorial Board (2013 - 2019)
International Journal of Biodiversity: Editorial Board (2012 - 2018)
Journal of Zoological Systematics and Evolutionary Research: Editorial Board (2014-2017)
International Journal of Evolutionary Biology (IJEB): Lead guest editor for special issue series "Cichlid Evolution: Lessons in Diversification" (2010 - 2012)

Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung, Deutschland
Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC), UK
Czech Science Foundation (GACR), Tschechien
French National Research Agency (ANR), Frankreich
International Foundation for Science (IFS), Schweden
Leibniz Gemeinschaft, Deutschland
National Geographic Society, USA
Natural Environment Research Council (NERC), UK
Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO), Niederlande
Österreichischer Austauschdienst (OeAD), Österreich
Research Foundation - Flanders (FWO Vlaanderen), Belgien
Schweizerischer Nationalfonds zur Förderung der wissenschaftlichen Forschung (SNF), Schweiz
The Royal Society, UK