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Career

· Teacher, Schulamt Frankfurt (Oder)2022–2023
· Teacher, evangelisches gymnasium Doberlug-Kirchhain2016–2022
· Editor, Freelance Writing and Editorial Services2016–2016
· Fulbright Fellow, Freie Universität Berlin2015–2016
· PHD Candidate, Duke University2012–2016

Publications (182)

The Biomechanics of Insect Flight: Form, Function, Evolution
1999
961
cited
Molecular Phylogenetics and the Diversification of Hummingbirds
Current Biology · 2014
373
cited
Implications of the late Palaeozoic oxygen pulse for physiology and evolution
Nature · 1995
297
cited
Mechanics of Forward Flight in Bumblebees: I. Kinematics and Morphology
1990
296
cited
An integrative approach to understanding bird origins
Science · 2014
286
cited
Mechanics of Forward Flight in Bumblebees: II. QUASI-STEADY LIFT AND POWER REQUIREMENTS
1990
253
cited
Into thin air: Physiology and evolution of alpine insects.
Integrative and Comparative Biology · 2006
238
cited
PHANEROZOIC ATMOSPHERIC OXYGEN
2003
234
cited
Gliding and the Functional Origins of Flight: Biomechanical Novelty or Necessity?
2007
184
cited
Sodium shortage as a constraint on the carbon cycle in an inland tropical rainforest
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2009
171
cited
Ethanol, Fruit Ripening, and the Historical Origins of Human Alcoholism in Primate Frugivory1
Integrative and Comparative Biology · 2004
161
cited
Repeated elevational transitions in hemoglobin function during the evolution of Andean hummingbirds
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2013
157
cited
Resolution of a paradox: hummingbird flight at high elevation does not come without a cost.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2004
157
cited
Biomechanics of Flight in Neotropical Butterflies: Morphometrics and Kinematics
1990
156
cited
Mechanisms and Implications of Animal Flight Maneuverability1
Integrative and Comparative Biology · 2002
152
cited
Turbulence-driven instabilities limit insect flight performance
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2009
148
cited
Limits to vertebrate locomotor energetics suggested by hummingbirds hovering in heliox
Nature · 1995
142
cited
On the biogeography of salt limitation: A study of ant communities
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2008
141
cited
Directed aerial descent in canopy ants
Nature · 2005
136
cited
Fermenting fruit and the historical ecology of ethanol ingestion: is alcoholism in modern humans an evolutionary hangover?
Addiction · 2002
132
cited
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