Research
Research
Curriculum vitae
Since 02/2023 Honorary Assistant Professor, University of East Anglia/ UK
Since 01/2019 Group Leader, Dept. of Molecular Microbiology, John Innes Centre, Dept. of
Molecular Microbiology, Norwich, UK.
02/2013 - 12/2018 Postdoctoral Scientist in the group of Prof. Mark Buttner, Dept. of Molecular
Microbiology, John Innes Centre, UK.
Project title: The role of two dynamin-like proteins during sporulation in Streptomyces.
08/2011-01/2013 Postdoctoral Scientist in the group of Prof. Martin Thanbichler, Max Planck Institute
for Terrestrial Microbiology, Marburg, Germany.
Project title: Cellular organization and differentiation of Caulobacter crescentus.
10/2007-07/2011 PhD Student in the group of Prof. Martin Thanbichler, Max Planck
Institute for Terrestrial Microbiology, Marburg, Germany.
Project title: Cell division and cellular differentiation in Caulobacter crescentus.
06-09/2007 Visiting Assistant in Research in the group of L.N. Ornston, Yale University, New
Haven, USA.
Project title: Regulation of RND efflux pumps in response to aromatic compounds in
Acinetobacter baylyi.
01/2006 – 05/2007 Research Assistent, TU Bergakademie Freiberg, Freiberg, Germany.
Project title: Regulation of chlorocatechol catabolism in Rhodococcus opacus 1CP.
12/2005 Diploma in Applied Sciences, TU Bergakademie Freiberg, Freiberg, Germany & Yale
University, New Haven, USA.
Project title: Expression of essential genes under inducible control in Acinetobacter baylyi.
Fellowships & Awards
2023 ERC Consolidator Grant
2022 EMBO Young Investigator Award
2018 Royal Society University Research Fellowship
2014-2016 Leopoldina Postdoctoral Fellowship, National Academy of Sciences, Germany
2013 Poster Award, BacNet 2013, Poland
Since 2010 Travel grants from: DAAD, GlaxoSmithKline, ASM, Microbiology Society (UK)
2005 Leisler-Kiep-Travel Grant, TU Bergakademie Freiberg, Germany