Academic Position
08/2023 – ongoin
02/2018 – 03/2023
Postdoc / Research Scientist City University of Hong Kong
Advisor: Prof. Mason Dean
Research project: Blue shark skin coloration mechanism
Guest Researcher Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces (MPI-CI)
Advisor: Dr. Emeline Raguin, Dr. Shahrouz Amini
Research project: Blue shark skin coloration mechanism
Research Scientist Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems (MPI-IS), DLG, Stuttgart, Germany
Advisor: Dr. Alexander Badri-Spröwitz
Research project: Mechanosensing Lumbosacral Sacral Organ in Birds
Academic Education
2018 – 2023
2014 – 2026
2014 – 2016
2012 – 2013
2008 – 2012
Graduate Program Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems, Germany
Ph.D. defended 24.02.2023 from University of Tübingen, Magna Cum Laude
Advisor: Dr. Alexander Badri-Spröwitz and Prof. Dr. Jan Benda
Thesis: Interaction of locomotion and intraspinal lumbosacral organ in birds
Program: International Max Planck Research School for Intelligent Systems (IMPRS-IS)
MSc in Evolution, Ecology and Systematics (EES), Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich (LMU), Germany
Advisor: Prof. Dr. Martin Heß
Thesis: Digital dissection of medium-scale dart poison frog and the smallest known frog
Program: The Erasmus Mundus Master's Programme in Evolutionary Biology (MEME)
MSc in Evolutionary Biology & Paleohistology, Uppsala University, Sweden
Advisor: Dr. Sophia Sanchez
Thesis: The fish-tetrapod transition and life-history traits of the Devonian fish
Program: The Erasmus Mundus Master's Programme in Evolutionary Biology (MEME)
MSc in Genetics and Molecular Biology, I.I.Mechnikov National University of Odesa, Ukraine
Advisor: Dr. Oleksandr Andrievsky and Tatijana Vasil'eva
Thesis: The β-esterase gene cluster in Drosophila populations exposed to coal mining waste
BSc in Genetics and Molecular Biology, I.I.Mechnikov National University of Odesa, Ukraine
Advisor: Dr. Oleksandr Andrievsky and Tatijana Vasil'eva
Thesis: Impact of the coal mining waste on some viability indices of Drosophila populations