Since 04/2023: Preparation of a doctoral thesis on the topic: “The role of developmental changes in the craniofacial system during the evolution of new, specialized feeding modes in South American killifishes of the genus Austrolebias (Cyprinodontiformes, Aplocheiloidei, Rivulidae).”

10/2022: Master of Science at the Friedrich Schiller University Jena. Title of the master thesis: “Morphological changes of the cranial musculosceletal system during the evolution of new feeding modes in South American Pearlfishes (Austrolebias)”. Supervised by Prof. Dr. Lennart Olsson (Friedrich Schiller University Jena) and Dr. Benjamin Naumann (University of Rostock).

2020-2023: Master studies at the Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Ecology, Evolution, and Systematics.

10/2020: Bachelor of Science at the Friedrich Schiller University Jena. Bachelor thesis on the ossification sequence of the cranium of the emerald aphyosemion, Fundulopanchax scheeli (Cyprinodontiformes: Aplocheiloidea, Nothobranchiidae). Supervised by Prof. Dr. Lennart Olsson (Friedrich Schiller University Jena) and Prof. Dr. Christoph Englert (Leibniz Institute on Aging - Fritz Lipmann Institute Jena).

2016-2020: Bachelor studies at the Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Biology.

01/2023-03/2023: Temporary employee, Thuringian University and State Library, Jena, Germany.

10/2021-04/2023 Student representative of the study program Ecology, Evolution, and Systematics, FSU, Jena, Germany (honorary).

04/2022-12/2022 Student research assistant under the supervision of Dr. Brendon Boudinot (FSU Jena, Germany) and Prof. Dr. Daniel Kronauer (Rockefeller University New York, USA) for the segmentation and analysis of sychrotron CT scans of the ant species Ooceraea biroi.

05/2020 - 07/2020 student assistant, FSU, Jena, Germany, tutor for the lecture General Zoology and supervision of the practical course Zoological Biodiversity of Germany.

12/2019-02/2020 student assistant, FSU, Jena, Germany, tutor for the lecture Special Zoology.

09/2019 student assistant, FSU, Jena, Germany, technical support at the annual conference of the German Zoological Society.

05/2019-07/2019 student assistant, FSU, Jena, Germany, supervision of the practical course Zoological Biodiversity of Germany.

12/2018-02/2019 student assistant, FSU, Jena, Germany, tutor for the lecture Special Zoology and supervision of the practical course accompanying the lecture.

05/2018-07/2018 student assistant, FSU, Jena, Germany, supervision of the practical course Zoological Biodiversity of Germany.

11/2017-01/2018 student assistant, FSU, Jena, Germany, tutor for the lecture Special Zoology.

Stüwe, M. A., Hammel, J., Naumann, B. (2024): A Burden to be a fish? - Riedl’s Burden tested using Anatomical Networks and heterochrony analyses of the actinopterygian cranium. 116^thMeeting of the German Zoological Society, Hohenheim (Stuttgart), 09.-13.09.2024. [Prize for best student presentation, 2nd place]

Stüwe, M. A., Naumann, B. (2023): Morphological changes of the cranial musculoskeletal system during the evolution of new trophic modes in South American Killifishes (Austrolebias). 115^thMeeting of the German Zoological Society, Kassel, 05.-08.09.2023.

Stüwe, M. A., Naumann, B. (2022): Morphological changes of the cranial musculosceletal system during the evolution of new feeding modes in South American Pearlfishes (Austrolebias). 3^rd Young Researchers Morphology Meeting, Online/Göttingen, 24.-26-02.2022.

other presentations:

Stüwe, M. A. (2024): Wie Fische aus Pfützen uns helfen, die Evolution des Fischkopfes zu verstehen. Lange Nacht der Wissenschaften 2024, Rostock, 18.04.2024

Frontiers in Zoology Prize 2024 for the best student talk in the subject group symposia (2nd Place), 116^thMeeting of the German Zoological Society (DZG), Hohenheim (Stuttgart), 09.-13.09.2024.

Deutsche Zoologische Gesellschaft