Main Focus
Webpage Avian Sleep: here
Curriculum Vitae
Academic
Education
2005-Present: Max
Planck Institute for Biological Intelligence (until 2022 Max
Planck Institute for Ornithology) - Seewiesen: Group Leader (Avian Sleep)
2000-2005: University of Wisconsin Medical School, Madison,
Wisconsin, Department of Psychiatry: Postdoctoral Fellow / Assistant
Scientist (Mentor: Ruth M. Benca, MD, PhD)
1999: Indiana State University, Terre Haute, Indiana, Department of Life
Sciences: PhD in Comparative Physiology
Dissertation: Plasticity in Avian
Unihemispheric Sleep: An Anti-predator Function (Mentor: Charles J. Amlaner
Jr., PhD)
1995: St. Louis University, St. Louis, Missouri, Department of
Biology: Masters of Science (Research) Mentor: Robert D. Aldridge, PhD
1986: Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri: Bachelors of Arts in
Psychology
Professional Services
Board Director:
Sleep Research
Society representative on Board of Registered Polysomnographic Technologists,
2004 - 2005.
Awards
2000: Sleep Research Society Young Investigator Award (Best
peer-reviewed paper)
2017: Sleep Research Society’s 2017 Outstanding Scientific Achievement Award