EDUCATION
2002 Ph.D Department of Biology, Duke University, Durham, NC.
1996 M.S. Zoology Julius-Maximilians University, Würzburg, Germany.
1992 B.S. Biology
Julius-Maximilians University, Würzburg, Germany
AWARDS
AND HONORS
2010 Long-Term Sabbatical Fellowship, National Evolutionary Synthesis Center
2008 Indiana
University Trustees' Teaching Award
2007 Indiana
University Trustees' Teaching Award
2004 American
Society of Naturalists (ASN) Young Investigator Prize
2002 National
Institutes of Health (NIH) Postdoctoral Excellence in Research and
Teaching Fellow
2001 Katherine
Stern Dissertation Year Fellowship
1999 National
Science Foundation (NSF) Dissertation Improvement Grant
1999 Dean's
Award for Excellence in Teaching (honorable mention), Duke University
1998 Sally
Hughes Schrader / Sigma Xi Travel Award for International Research
1998 Duke University Graduate Award for International Research
1998 North Carolina Academy of Science Robert R. Bryden Graduate Research
Award
1997 Duke
University Graduate Award for International Research
1997 Sigma Xi Grant-in-Aid of Research
1994 German Academic Exchange Service Scholar