University studies in Kosice, Slovakia (Bc 2003, Mgr 2004), Birmingham, UK (MSc 2005) and Heidelberg Univeristy (PhD 2010). 2011-2022 Head of the research field Molecular Evolution of Plants/Lab manager at the Senckenberg Natural History Museun and Research Institute Frankfurt, since 2022 Curator of herbarium (phanerogams) at BGBM, FU Berlin.