Since 2025  Doctoral researcher in Neuroanatomy and Animal Behavior at the Neurosensorics/Animal Navigation group (Doctoral supervisor: Prof. Dr. Henrik Mouritsen, Dr. Dominik Heyers)

2019 – 2025  Student assistant at the Neurosensorics/Animal Navigation group

2022 – 2025 Master of Science in Neuroscience at Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg
Thesis: From retina to visual wulst: afferents and efferents of the thalamofugal pathway in songbirds

2018 – 2022 Bachelor of Science in Biology at Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg
Thesis: Expression analyses of various transcription factors in the mesopallium and hippocampus of Eurasian blackcaps (Sylvia atricapilla)

2014 – 2018 Apprenticeship as Industrial electronics technician 

Chetverikova, R., Dautaj, G., Schwigon, L., Dedek, K., & Mouritsen, H. (2022). Double cones in the avian retina form an oriented mosaic which might facilitate magnetoreception and/or polarized light sensing. Journal of the Royal Society, Interface, 19(189), 20210877. https://doi.org/10.1098/rsif.2021.0877

Xu, J., Ameerjan, A. B. P., Hungerland, J., Langebrake, G., Ravnsborg, T., Jensen, O. N., Schmidt, J., Bartölke, R., Kasahara, T., Satish, B., Schwigon, L., Dedek, K., Nolte, A. W., Liedvogel, M., Solovyov, I. A., & Mouritsen, H. (2025). Cryptochrome 4b protein is probably irrelevant for radical pair-based magnetoreception in the European robin. Journal of the Royal Society, Interface, 22(229), 20250176. https://doi.org/10.1098/rsif.2025.0176

ICN 2024 Berlin: Effect of narrowband monochromatic blue and green light on magnetic orientation of night migratory songbirds (Poster)

SFB Symposium 2025: Further insights into avian visual magnetoreception: afferents and efferents of the thalamic dorsolateral geniculate complex in night-migratory songbirds (Poster)