Awarded Research Funding
2020 – April 2023 | DFG Project “CarotPhyte” within SPP 2237
248,250 Euro awarded by the German Research Foundation (DFG) within the framework of the Priority Programme “MAdLand – Molecular Adaptation to Land: Plant Evolution to Change” (SPP 2237)
2019 – 2024 | ERC Starting Grant “TerreStriAL”
1,494,226 Euro awarded by the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme
2016 – 2018 | DFG Research Fellowship
86,520 Euro awarded by the German Research Foundation (DFG)
Awards
2017 | Best Poster Award, Botanikertagung in Kiel, Germany
135 Euro awarded by: Deutsche Botanische Gesellschaft
2015 | Best Poster Award
135 Euro awarded by: Deutsche Botanische Gesellschaft
2012 – 2013 | Wijks, Olof O:son: scholarship for students of botany
9,100 Euro (80,000 SEK) awarded by: Uppsala University
2011 | Mobility scholarship for biologists
1,000 Euro awarded by: Technische Universität Carolo Wilhelmina zu Braunschweig
2009 – 2010 | Scholarship for outstanding course achievements
1,000 Euro awarded by: Technische Universität Carolo Wilhelmina zu Braunschweig
Peer Reviewer Activity
BMC Plant Biology, Chromosoma, Current Biology, Current Genetics, Czech Science Foundation, Frontiers in Plant Science, Genome Biology and Evolution, Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology, Journal of Plant Growth Regulation, Microbial Ecology, Molecular Biology and Evolution, Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, Molecular Plant, New Phytologist, Plant Physiology, Plant and Cell Physiology, The Plant Cell, PLoS ONE, Protist, Science Advances, Scientific Reports, SpringerReference
Memberships
Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Deutscher Hochschulverband
German Botanical Society (including sections: Phycology and Biodiversity and Evolution)
International Society of Endocytobiology
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