Work
2023 - current
Bioinformatician at the Institute for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Dynamics (IBED) at the University of Amsterdam (UvA)
2018 - 2023
Postdoctoral fellow at the Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research (NIOZ) in the Netherlands
2015 - 2018
Postdoctoral fellow at the Marine Science Institute in Port Aransas (UT Austin)
2012-2015
Graduate student at the Max-Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research in Cologne, Germany
Topic: Structural and functional analysis of the root microbiome of Arabidopsis thaliana and relative species
Link to my PhD Thesis (english), tba
2006-2011
University student at the MLU Halle-Wittenberg in Halle, Germany
Graduating as Diplom Biologist (equivalent to M.Sc.) Diploma thesis performed at the Leibniz Institute for Plant Biochemistry in Halle, Germany Topic: Polysomal mRNA profiling of auxin responsive transcriptomes in different cell types of Arabidopsis thaliana
FUNDING
2017
JGI Community Science Program (CSP) Sequencing Grant
2012-2015
International Max Planck Research School IMPRS Fellowship
TEACHING & OUTREACH
2022
Lecturer at the 2 days metagenomics workshop as part of the Genome Biology and Genomics course at the University of Bristol
Guest lecturer at the Evolutionary Genomics course series at Utrecht university
2021
Organized and lectured at a 10 week workshop series Bioinformatics for marine biologists aimed at undergraduate and graduate students at the Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research (NIOZ)
2019
TA’ed at a 2 day workshop R for beginners aimed at undergraduate to senior researchers at the Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research (NIOZ)
Organized and lectured at a 10 week workshop series Bioinformatics for marine biologists aimed at undergraduate and graduate students at the Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research (NIOZ)
2017
‘Graduate School Roundtable (REU)’ at UT Austin Marine Science Institute -Panel-member
Graduate class “Genomics in Ocean Science” at UT Austin Marine Science Institute - Guest lecturer
2016
Seminar series “Molecular biology” at UT Austin Marine Science Institute - Organizing committee & lecturer
Workshop “ECOGEO ’Omics Training: Introduction to Environmental ’Omics using a Unix-based Virtual Machine” at U. Hawai‘i Mānoa - Lecturer. COURSE MATERIAL