Academic Appointments since 2012Mitarbeiterin im Programm richtig einsteigen zur Vermittlung mathematischer Kompetenzen in der Biologie2004 – 2012 Leader of a research group on the “Impact of neuronal variability on the reliability of encoding and the processing of visual motion information” at the Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität, Münster (Germany) and at Bielefeld University, funded by the Volkswagen Stiftung 1995 – 2004 Scientific member of staff in the Neurobiology Department at Bielefeld University 1995 Postdoctoral Fellow: Centre for Visual Sciences, Research School of Biological Sciences, Australian National University, Canberra (Australia) Studies at University 2000 Habilitation in “Animal Physiology” at Bielefeld University1991 - 1994 PhD Project: “Reliability of neuronal information processing in the motion pathway of blowflies” at the Max-Planck-Institute Biol. Cybernetics, Tübingen (Germany)" 1990 - 1991 Diploma-Thesis, "Konnektivitätsanalyse zum neuronalen Mechanismus der Detektion bewegter Objekte im visuellen System derFliege'" 1987 - 1988 Studies of Zoology and Neurobiology at the Duke University in Durham, NC (USA)1986 - 1991 Studies of Biology (main subjects: Animal Physiology, botany, mathematics, electronics) at the University of Tübingen (Germany) 1984 - 1986 Studies of Biology at the Johannes-Gutenberg University in Mainz (Germany)