About me

Curriculum vitae

  March 1994 approbation in Veterinarian Medicine at the University of Munich, Germany
  28 July 1995 finished PhD thesis at the Department of Histology and Anatomy, Institute of Veterinarian Medicine, University of Munich, Germany
January 1996  – January 1997 post doc at the Department of Histology and Anatomy, University of Munich, Germany
January 1997  – April 1999 family leave
April 1999  – February 2006 manager and part owner of a riding school in Regensburg.
  June 2004 restart of scientific career at the Department of Biology I, Zoology. Topic: “Social learning and social cognition in horses”
  October 2008 organisation and management of the “1st International Equine Science Meeting” (IESM) at the University of Regensburg, Germany
  November 2011 submitting Habilitation thesis “Social Learning and Social Cognition in Horses”, applying for evaluation process
  March 2012 professorship for Horse Management at the University of Applied Sciences Nürtingen
  March 2012 organisation and management of the “2nd International Equine Science Meeting” (IESM) at the University of Regensburg, Germany
  June 2012 habilitation in Zoology at University of Regensburg.
  June 2012 lecturer position at University of Regensburg, parallel to Professorship at Nürtingen-Geislingen University
  March 2014 organisation of the 1st Pferdetage Baden-Württemberg, Nürtingen-Geislingen University, Germany
  Summer 2014 cofounder of the Netzwerk Pferdewissens [Network Horse Knowledge, supporting the knowledge exchange between Equine Science students]
  May 2015 organisation and management of  the “3rd International Equine Science Meeting” (IESM 2015) at the HfWU, Germany
  July 2016 organisation of symposium  on „Laterality in Mammals“ for  the European Conference Behavioural Biology (ECBB), Wien
  2017 mentoring work group “Wolf and Horse”, lower Saxony
  October 2017 organization of the 2nd Netzwerktagung Pferdewissen
  November 2018 Ombudsperson for evaluating scientific honesty at Nürtingen-Geislingen University
  2019 Animal Welfare Commission deputy at Nürtingen-Geislingen University
  Spring 2020

Starting the You Tube channels Equine Science Talk (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0s5sXLk1W28r_Y9CLswRhw) and Equine Science Talk International (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCzNBXlzMAeu83481wEOI6Pg)
  Mai 2020 member of the steering committee for the project „Implementing Open Access at applied Universities and Colleges of Higher Education in Baden-Württemberg“
  2021 Publicity work for  "Horse and Wolf - how does this go together?" for the WWF EuroLargeCarnivores Project
  October 2021 organization of the 5th Netzwerktagung Pferdewissen
  October 2021 member of the scientific board for the farms of Nuertingen-Geislingen University
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