Field of Work

Phenomics focused on linking functional traits to ecology both in the present and with a deep-time perspective.

Research Interests

Correlating morphological variation in extant and extinct bears with (palaeo)environmental factors such as altitude, latitude, and climatic and biotic variables.

Biological response of Eurasian red squirrels to global change.

Dormice as a powerful model for unraveling the complex interplay of ecology, morphology, and genetics.

Curriculum Vitae

Since 2020 Privatdozentin, Systematic Zoology, Ludwig Maximilian University Munich.

Since 2016 Head of the Mammalogy Section, Bavarian State Collections of Natural History – Bavarian State Collection of Zoology, Munich.

2016 Visiting researcher, Function Evolution and Anatomy Research lab, University of New England, Armidale, Australien.

2013-2015 Humboldt postdoctoral research fellow, Steinmann Institute, University of Bonn.

2012-2013 Labex BCDiv postdoctoral research fellow funded by the CNRS, Prehistory Department, Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle, Paris, France.