• Molecular Phylogenetics

Academic Education

2005

Dr. rer. nat., University of Bonn; Evolution of Amaranthaceae - A case study integrating molecular phylogenetics and pollen data; summa cum laude

2002 – 2005

Doctoral studies, Nees-Institut für Biodiversität der Pflanzen, University of Bonn

1996 – 2001

University studies in Biology, Bonn University

2001

Graduation from Bonn University (Diploma in Biology); A phylogenetic analysis of Lentibulariaceae based on sequences of matK and adjacent non-coding regions; grade 1.0, mark of distinction

Positions

since 2009

Professor for Botany, Institute for Evolution and Biodiversity, WWU Münster

2006 – 2009

Assistent professor at the Nees Institute (Prof. Barthlott), head of the Systematics and Evolution working group and lab

2006

Postdoctoral research assistant at the lab of Prof. C. dePamphilis, Department of Biology, Institute of Molecular Evolutionary Genetics, and Huck Institutes of the Life Sciences, Pennsylvania State University, USA

Prizes

2005

Scholarship of the Deutsche Telekom Stiftung – Deutsche Telekom Stiftung

2001

PhD scholarship of the Eduard-Rhein-Stiftung – Eduard-Rhein-Stiftung

1996

Scholarship from the German National Academic Foundation (Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes) – German National Academic Foundation (Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes)

2008

Appointment as member of the Young Academy of the North Rhine-Westphalian Academy of Sciences – North Rhine-Westphalian Academy of Sciences

2004

Förderpreis Biodiversität der Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur zu Mainz – Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur zu Mainz (AdW-Mainz)

Functions and Memberships

since 2008

Young Academy of the North Rhine-Westphalian Academy of Sciences

since 2007

Editorial board member, Systematic Biology

since 2006

International Association for Plant Taxonomy

since 2005

German Botanical Society

• Multiscale Green Biology Münster - from molecule to ecosystem: Green knowledge for education, research and society in times of climate change (2020 – 2023)
  Internally at the University of Münster Funded Project: Universität Münster-interne Förderung - Topical Programmes
• Wildpflanzenschutz Deutschland (2018 – 2022)
  Individual Granted Project: Universität Potsdam
• The German-Ecuadorian Biodiversity Consortium – BIO-GEEC (2020 – 2021)
  Participation in other joint Project: DAAD - Nicht spezifizierte Mittel | Project Number: 57520227
• GBOL-Verbund: German Barcode of Life – Von der Wissenschaft zur Anwendung (GBOL-2) – Teilprojekt 11: Datenfluss und Analyse der Sequenzdaten. Bioinformatik Sanger & NGS Daten (2016 – 2019)
  Participation in Federally Funded Joint Project: Bundesministerium für Forschung, Technologie und Raumfahrt | Project Number: 01LI1501L
• Münster Graduate School of Evolution - Unterstützung des Evolution Think Tank – MGSE (2013 – 2018)
  Individual Granted Project: Santander Consumer Bank AG
• Aufbau einer wissenschaftlichen Kooperation zwischen der Universität Münster und der Universität Kopenhagen zur Entschlüsselung genetischer Netzwerke in parasitischen Pflanzen (2015 – 2016)
  Individual Granted Project: DFG - Aufbau internationaler Kooperationen | Project Number: WI 4507/2-1| MU 2875/4-1
• German Barcode of Life: Subproject 5b: Botany - Moss, Fern – GBOL (2012 – 2015)
  Individual Granted Project: Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn
• Development of a subject indexing system for collections of the north hemispherical flowering plant genus Campanula (2013 – 2014)
  Individual Granted Project: DFG - Wissenschaftliche Literaturversorgung und Informationssysteme | Project Number: MU 2875/3-1
• Carnivory in Lamiales: understanding character evolution, substitution rate plasticity, and genome miniaturization – Carnivory in Lamiales (2007 – 2011)
  Individual Granted Project: DFG - Sachbeihilfe/Einzelförderung | Project Number: MU 2875/2-1

• Wiechers, Sarah (2020): Development of software components for and analysis of DNA barcoding data of the German flora

  Supervisors

  Bornberg-Bauer, Erich

  Quandt, Dietmar

• Stöver, Ben (2018): Software Components for increased Data Reuse and Reproducibility in Phylogenetics and Phylogenomics

  Supervisors

  Quandt, Dietmar

  Makalowski, Wojciech

• Röschenbleck, Joachim (2015): Taxonomy, phylogenetics, and plastome evolution in Pelargonium

  Further Supervisor

  Kudla, Jörg

• Testroet, Philip (2015): DNA-Barcoding and ex-situ cultures: a floristic and molecular biological analysis of soil spore banks
• Schäper, Katharina (2014): Taxonomic and phylogenetic studies in hemiparasitic genera of Orobanchaceae
• Krug, Michael (2014): Attributing differences in phylogenetic structure to molecular structural elements
• Schäferhoff, Bastian (2011): Carnivory in Lamiales: Phylogeny, taxonomy, and chloroplast genome evolution

  Supervisors

  Quandt, Dietmar

  Fischer, Eberhard

• Wicke, Susann (2010): Assessing the Evolutionary Patterns of Plastid Genome Reduction in a Group of Non-Photosynthetic Parasitic Angiosperms (Orobanchaceae)