Since 2024 Scientific project coordinator of the planned research building "NaviGate"

2020-2023 Research associate in the Department of Life Sciences & Chemistry at the Constructor University Bremen

Project of the Federal Office for Radiation Protection: "Effects on cells of the body surface during exposure to centimetre and millimetre waves (5G frequencies)"

2016-2020 Consultant at the Institute for European Economic Development Zeven (project funding)

2011-2014 Research assistant (PhD student) in the Department of Life Sciences & Chemistry at Jacobs University Bremen (Chronobiology)

Topic of the PhD thesis: “Searching for the testicular clock – Comparing daily patterns of clock gene expression and the duration of the seminiferous epithelium cycle in three hamster species”

Education

2008-2011 Study of Animal Biology and Biomedical Sciences in the Department of Evolution and Conservation at the Institute of Zoology at the University of Veterinary Medicine Hannover and at Zurich Zoo (Switzerland)

Topic of the master thesis: "The social organisation of the Goodman's mouse lemur (Microcebus lehilahytsara) in the Masoala Hall of Zurich Zoo"

2005-2008 Study of Biology in the Department of Animal Physiology and Behaviour in the Department of Neuroscience at the Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg

Topic of the bachelor thesis: "Molecular genetic studies on the heritability of telomere lengths in the oryx weaver(Euplectes oryx)"

Publications

Gernot Schmid, Rene Hirtl, Isabel A. Gronau, Vivian Meyer, Karen Drees, Alexander Lerchl (2022): Design and Dosimetric Characterization of a Broadband Exposure Facility for In Vitro Experiments in the Frequency Range 18-40.5 GHz. Bioelectromagnetics 43(1):25-39. https://doi.org/10.1002/bem.22376

Vivian Meyer, Melanie Klose, Alexander Lerchl (2021): Spermatogenesis in the Roborovski hamster (Phodopus roborovskii) and the Chinese hamster (Cricetulus griseus). Andrology 9(5):1617-1630. https://doi.org/10.1111/andr.13035

Vivian Meyer and Alexander Lerchl (2014): Evidence for species-specific clock gene expression patterns in hamster peripheral tissues. Gene 548(1). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gene.2014.07.019

Vivian Jürges, Johanne Kitzler, Robert Zingg, Ute Radespiel (2013): First Insights into the Social Organisation of Goodman's Mouse Lemur (Microcebus lehilahytsara) - Testing Predictions from Socio-Ecological Hypotheses in the Masoala Hall of Zurich Zoo. Folia Primatologica 84(1):32-48. https://doi.org/10.1159/000345917