My biological work is rooted in a long-standing fascination with biodiversity and the evolutionary processes that shape it. With a background in evolutionary biology, phylogeny, ecology, and taxonomy, I have been particularly drawn to the study of organismal diversity and the role of natural history collections as repositories of knowledge about life on Earth. At Bielefeld University, I worked within the Biological Collection of the Faculty of Biology, contributing to the curation and study of various taxonomic groups, with a particular focus on Scarabaeoidea as well as Sauropsida and Amphibia. Today, as a coleopterologist at the LWL Museum of Natural History and Planetarium in Münster, my research centres on the taxonomy of onthophagine scarab beetles from the Palaearctic and Indomalayan realms. Through taxonomic research, I seek to better understand patterns of diversity, evolutionary relationships, and the often-overlooked complexity of insect life.

Before focusing exclusively on biological research, I was also involved in the interdisciplinary study of religion. Having studied Religious Studies alongside biology, I worked in the research group of Prof. Dr. Dr. Ina Wunn at Bielefeld University and later at Leibniz University Hannover. The group's work explored questions surrounding the evolution of religion and religious ethology, bringing together perspectives from the humanities and the life sciences to investigate religious behaviour from an evolutionary perspective. While this is no longer the main focus of my work, these questions continue to be of great personal and academic interest to me.