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Faculty of Mathematics and Natural SciencesInstitute of Zoology

Professor Dr. Sebastian Hess

Scientific career

  • 2023–pres. Full professor at the Department of Biology of the Technical University of Darmstadt
  • 2019–2023 Independent Junior Research Group Leader (Emmy Noether Programme of the German Research Foundation) at the Institute of Zoology of the University of Cologne, Germany
  • 2018–2019 Postdoctoral fellow at the University of Cologne (Germany) working with Prof. Dr Hartmut Arndt (Institute of Zoology); DFG Return grant
  • 2018–2018 Postdoctoral fellow at Dalhousie University (Halifax, Canada) working with Prof. Dr John Archibald (Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology)
  • 2017–2020 Adjunct Scholar in the Department of Biology at Dalhousie University (Halifax, Canada)
  • 2015–2018 Postdoctoral fellow at Dalhousie University (Halifax, Canada) working with Prof. Dr Alastair Simpson (Department of Biology) and Prof. Dr Andrew Roger (Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology)
  • 2014–2015 Postdoctoral fellow at the University of Cologne working with Prof. Dr Michael Melkonian (Department of Botany)
  • 07/2014 Doctoral dissertation, Botany, University of Cologne (Dr. rer. nat.; summa cum laude) Thesis: “Algivorous freshwater protists of the phylum Cercozoa (Rhizaria) – structure, life histories and evolution”
  • 03/2011 Granted academic degree in Biology (Diploma), University of Bonn subjects: Botany, Limnology, Atomic and Nuclear Physics (grade: 1.0) Thesis: “Morphologie, Lebensweise und phylogenetische Charakterisierung auf Süßwasseralgen parasitierender Amöboflagellaten”
  • 2005–2011 Studies in Biology at the University of Bonn

Fellowships

  • 2021–pres. Individual Research Grant of the German Research Foundation, 3 years
  • 2020–pres. Project in the Priority Programme 'Taxon-omics' of the German Research Foundation, 3 years
  • 2019–pres. Emmy Noether Programme of the German Research Foundation, 3+3 years
  • 2018–2019 Return grant of the German Research Foundation, 6 month
  • 2016–2018 Research fellowship of the German Research Foundation, 2 years
  • 2012–2014 Fellowship of the DLR Graduate Program at the National Aeronautics and Space Research Centre, Cologne, Germany
  • 2012–2014 Scholarship of the German National Academic Foundation (Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes) for the doctoral studies
  • 2006–2010 Scholarship of the German National Academic Foundation (Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes) during the undergraduate studies

Awards

  • 2015 1st poster prize at the “Black Forest Summer School on NGS data for phylogenetics”, Herzogenhorn, Germany
  • 2015 Karl Gottlieb Grell Prize for an outstanding dissertation in protistology awarded by the German Society for Protozoology, Magdeburg, Germany
  • 2014 Jahn-Bovee Award for the best student talk at the meeting of the International Society of Protistologists, Banff, Canada
  • 2014 Prize for the best student talk at the 33th annual meeting of the German Society for Protozoology, Oer-Erkenschwick, Germany
  • 2011 Irene Manton Prize for the best student talk at the 59th annual meeting of the British Phycological Society, Cardiff, Wales
  • 2010 1st poster prize at the joint congress of the German Societies for Parasitology and Protozoology, Düsseldorf, Germany
  • 2010 1st poster prize at the Scientific Meeting of the Phycological Section, German Botanical Society, Reichenau, Germany
  • 2005 Awarded by the city council of Wiehl for remarkable achievements (medal of Wiehl)
  • 2005 Winner of the national science competition “Jugend forscht” in Biology, Dortmund, Germany

Other

Publications (not 'peer-reviewed')

 

  • Wylezich C., Walochnik J., Hess S. (2022): Einzeller des Jahres 2022 – Blastocystis: Ein immer noch rätselhafter Einzeller. Flyer, im Auftrag der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Protozoologie.
  • Hess S. (2015): Einzeller des Jahres 2015 – Gattung Vampyrella (die Vampiramöbe). Flyer und Poster, im Auftrag der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Protozoologie.
  • Hess S. (2013): Medusorrhynchus gudei gen. nov. et sp. nov. – ein submerser Zwergnasling (Rhinogradentia, Mammalia). Mikrokosmos 102: 373–376.
  • Hess S. (2009): MagniFlash – der Makrokonverter mit lichtoptischer Blitzleitung. Mikrokosmos 98: 137–146.
  • Hess S. (2009): Botanische Makrofotografie mit MagniFlash. Gärtnerisch-Botanischer Brief 174: 69–71.
  • Hess S. (2008): Carnivoren kommen groß raus – Pflanzenfotografie mit MagniFlash. Das Taublatt 62: 5–23.
  • Hess S. (2007): Ein Moos fängt Tiere – Zoophagie bei Pleurozia purpurea. Teil 2: Untersuchungen in der Natur. Mikrokosmos 96: 75–79.
  • Hess S. (2007): Ein Moos fängt Tiere – Zoophagie bei Pleurozia purpurea. Teil 1: Anatomie und Biologie des Lebermooses. Mikrokosmos 96: 35–42.
  • Hess S. (2006): Leben mit Natur pur. in Bergerhoff W., Runkel U.: Mein Wiehl – Geschichte und Geschichten einer Stadt. Gronenberg Verlag, Gummersbach, 196 S.
  • Hess S., Riedel C. (2006): Im Nebel des Nocknadobar. Das Taublatt 55: 24–30.
  • Hess S. (2002): Drosera hamiltonii. Das Taublatt 44: 44–47.