Curriculum Vitae
Philipp was born in Germany and studied Biology at the Christian-Albrechts-Universiät zu Kiel, where he received his M. Sc. in Microbiology, Genetics and Physiology in 2010. Between 2010 and 2015, Philipp was a PhD student within the IMPRS for Evolutionary Biology working on the microbiota of the model nematode C. elegans at the Department of Evolutionary Ecology and Genetics with Prof. Dr. Hinrich Schulenburg at Kiel University. After building up and coordinating the Kiel Research Center (KEC) at Kiel University for two years, he switched back to science as a postdoc in Schulenburgs Max Planck research group.