Professional Experience 2018/19 Fellow, Centre de Recherches Interdisciplinaires (CRI), Paris, France 2018/19 Guest Lecturer (Gastprofessur), University of Vienna, Austria 2017– Associate Faculty, Complexity Science Hub (CSH) Vienna, Austria 2017/18 Visiting Scholar, Center for Systems Biology Dresden (CSBD), Germany 2015–2017 Scientific Director, Konrad Lorenz Institute for Evolution & Cognition Research, KLI Klosterneuburg, Austria 2014/15 Fellow, Institute for Advanced Study/Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin Focus Group: “Gene Regulation and Organismal Diversity” Organiser: Steve Frank; with: Orkun Soyer, Thomas Pfeiffer, Anton Crombach 2008–2015 Group Leader Comparative Analysis of Developmental Systems EMBL/CRG Research Unit in Systems Biology Centre de Regulació Genòmica (CRG), Barcelona, Spain 2006–2008 Postdoctoral Research Associate Laboratory for Development & Evolution, University Museum of Zoology Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge, UK Project: “A Comparative Gene Circuit Approach to Study the Evolution of Segmentation in Insects” Principal Investigators: Prof. Michael Akam & Dr. Nick Monk Education 2000–2005 PhD, Graduate Program in Genetics Dept of Applied Mathematics & Statistics, and Center for Developmental Genetics, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY, USA Thesis: “Dynamic Regulatory Analysis of the Gap Gene Network in Drosophila melanogaster” Under the supervision of: Prof. John Reinitz 1999–2000 MSc in Holistic Science Schumacher College, Dartington, Devon, UK Thesis: “A Cellular Oscillator Model of Animal Segmentation” Under the supervision of: Prof. Brian Goodwin 1996–1999 University Diploma in Biology Biocentre, University of Basle, Switzerland Thesis: “Apoptosis and Homeosis in the Drosophila Eye Imaginal Disc” Under the supervision of: Prof. W. J. Gehring