Education: 09/2004-05/2007: PhD programme (PhD), ETH Zurich, Switzerland 09/2002 – 04/2004: Master programme (MSc), University of Copenhagen, Denmark 09/1998 – 06/2002: Bachelor Programme (BSc). University of Copenhagen, Denmark Employment: 08/2014-Present: Max Planck Professor, Christian-Albrechts University of Kiel and Max Planck Institute of Evolutionary Biology, Kiel and Ploen, Germany 02/2012-07/2014: Max Planck Research Group Leader, MPRG Fungal Biodiversity, Max Planck Institute for Terrestrial Microbiology, Marburg, Germany 05/2010-01/2012: Project Group Leader, Max Planck Institute for Terrestrial Microbiology, Marburg, Germany 06/2008-04/2010: Post doc, Bioinformatics Research Center, University of Aarhus, Denmark 01/2008-05/2008: Maternity leave 05/2007- 12/2007: Post doc, Plant Pathology, ETH Zurich, Switzerland