She works in the group of Prof. Bringmann with a focus on sleep in C. elegans. She received a Bachelor degree in physics from Princeton University, USA, in 2016. After that she started her PhD work in Prof. Bringmann's lab at the Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry in Göttingen, Germany. The lab moved to Marburg, Germany, in May 2019, where she since then conducts her research and finishes her PhD projects. Florian Jordan works as an electronics technician for the electronics service at the Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry in Göttingen, Germany. He finished his occasional training there in 2014 and since then he develops and repairs electrical equipment for research groups. In 2016 he received the CID certification, following this he started to study to become a statecertified technician.

Göttingen. Since 2018 he is a full Professor at the University of Marburg.sleep deprivation reduced survival. Thus, OptoGenBox presents an affordable system to study the long-term consequences of optogenetic manipulations of key biological processes in small animals.