Experience

Journey 2 Creation

• Germany
• Business Consulting and Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Neuroscience | Psychology | Behavioral Economics

  • May 2019 - Present



EURICE – European Research and Project Office GmbH

• Germany
• Business Consulting and Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Research & Innovation Manager

  • May 2015 - Apr 2019



Columbia University Irving Medical Center

• United States
• Hospitals and Health Care
• 700 & Above Employee

• Postdoctoral Research Fellow

  • Jun 2012 - Feb 2014

  I had the opportunity to assemble a Microdialysis Set-up, a minimally-invasive sampling technique measuring continuously free, unbound analyte concentrations in the extracellular fluid in free behaving rodents. Once the technique was functioning I investiagted the dopaminergic tone in the striatum (nucleus accumbens) during a motivation task in a mouse model for schizophrenia. I also worked on motivation based decision making processes in the same mouse model by means of electrophysiology. The work was funded by a postdoctoral stipend of the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD).



Freie Universität Berlin, Institut für Neurobiologie und Pharmazie

• Doctoral research scientist

  • May 2007 - Sep 2011

  I planned and conducted experimental studies to investigate memory processes in the honeybee brain by means of extracellular recordings of single neurons. Funded by the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science and the German Academic Exchange Service I had the chance to conduct research at the Institute for Statistical Neuroscience, Brain Science Institute, RIKEN, Japan.My work focussed on the plasticity and multisensory integration of feedback neurons in the mushroom body during classical conditiong.