Research interests
During my Bachelor and Master I took courses in a wide range of biological topics ranging from neurodevelopmental biology, to immunology, genetics, evolutionary biology, fungal biotechnology, and phytopathology. I am generally interested in organismal interaction though I am most curious about fungi and how to deal with or even use them.
I conducted my bachelor thesis in the group of Dominik Begerow about the ecology of nectar inhabiting yeasts and worked on an evolutionary proteomics approach in parasitic plants of the Orobanchaceae family during my Master.
In my Ph.D. project I aim at understanding the impact of agroecosystems on the population structure and intraspecies diversity of phytopathogenic fungi adapted to crops in comparison to relatives adapted to wild hosts. Furthermore I hope to gain insights into multispecies interactions of different microorganisms on/in plants and their influence on plant pathogen infections. My model for both projects is the fungal barley pathogen Pyrenophora teres.
Short CV
2017-present: Ph.D. in Prof. Dr. Eva Stukenbrocks team, working both at the University of Kiel and the MPI Plön
2014-2017: Master‘s degree in Life sciences („Biowissenschaften“) at the Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Special Study Program „Evolution and Biocomplexity“
2013/2014: ERASMUS Semester at Gothenburg University, Sweden
2011-2014: Bachelor‘s degree in Biology at the Ruhr-Universität Bochum