Dr. Isabelle Junk
Curriculum Vitae
Education and Employment
07/2025 – current Research assistant Environmental Specimen Bank, Trier University
04/2021 – 07/2025 Doctoral candidate and research assistant at Trier University
Department VI – Biogeography, Environmental Specimen Bank
Titel: “Exploring the potential of the German Environmental Specimen Bank for
retrospective molecular biodiversity monitoring”
Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Henrik Krehenwinkel
09/2020 – 10/2020 Student assisstant “Anatomie und Diversität der Tiere” (B. Sc.)
10/2018 – 09/2021 M. Sc. Environmental Sciences (Focus: Biodiversity and Ecology)
at Trier University
Title: “DNA Metabarcoding reveals a Detailed Dietary Analysis of the Greater
Mouse-eared Bat Myotis myotis”
Supervisors: Prof. Dr. Henrik Krehenwinkel, Prof. Dr. Michael Veith
04/2018 – 12/2020 Student assistant at the Environmental Specimen Bank at Trier University
10/2017 – 02/2018 Student assistant “Mikroskopierkurs Pflanzenanatomie” (B. Sc.)
11/2016 – 02/2017 Student assistant “Mikroskopierkurs Pflanzenanatomie” (B. Sc.)
10/2015 – 03/2019 B. Sc. Environmental Sciences at Trier University
Title: „Genetische Diversität und reproduktive Fitness fragmentierter
Populationen der Violetten Schwarzwurzel (Scorzonera purpurea L.) in
Steppenrasen in Mitteldeutschland“
Supervisors: Dr. Thomas Becker, Dr. Walter Durka
