2014-present: PostDoctoral Fellow at Lund University, Sweden

2008-2014: PhD student at Department of Biology, University of Oldenburg, Germany, AG Animal Navigation/"Neurosensorik" (Group leader: Prof. Dr. H. Mouritsen).

2008: Master of sciences (M.Sc.) in Biology (Diplom-Biologe): Erstellung eines standardisierten 3D Neuropilatlas und die Plastizität des Gehirns von Tribolium castaneum. Philipps-University of Marburg, Department of Biology- Neurobiology, Ethology (Group leader: Prof. Dr. Joachim Schachtner)

2003: Matriculated at Philipps-University of Marburg, Germany

2002: Graduated from Städtisches Gymnasium Olpe, Germany

2016: Schwarze S., Steenken F., Thiele N., Kobylkov D., Lefeldt N., Dreyer D., Schneider N-L., and Mouritsen H. (2016) "Migratory blackcaps can use their magnetic compass at 5 degrees inclination, but are completely random at 0 degree inclination", Sci Rep. 6:33805. doi.: 10.1038/srep33805

2016: Warrant E., Frost B.J., Green K., Mouritsen H., Dreyer D., Adden A., Brauburger K., Heinze S. (2016) "The Australien Bogong moth Agrotis infusa: A long-distance nocturnal navigator". Frontierts in Behavioral Neuroscience 10, 77. doi: 10.3389/fnbeh.2016.00077

2016: Schwarze S., Schneider N-L., Reichl T., Dreyer D., Lefeldt N., Engels S., Baker N., Hore P. J., Mouritsen H. (2016) "Weak broadband electromagnetic fields are more disruptive to magnetic compass orientation in night-migratory songbird (Erithacus rubecula) than strong narrow-band fields. Frontierts in Behavioral Neuroscience 10,55. doi: 10.3389/fnbeh.2016.00055

2015: Lefeldt, N., Dreyer, D., Steenken, F., Schneider, N.-L. & Mouritsen, H. (2015) Migratory blackcaps tested in Emlen funnels can orient at 85 but not at 88 degrees magnetic inclination. J. Exp. Biol. 218, 206-211. doi:10.1242/jeb.107235

2010: Dreyer D, Vitt H, Dippel S, Goetz B, el Jundi B, Kollmann M, Huetteroth W, Schachtner J 3D standard brain of the red flour beetle Tribolium castaneum: a tool to study metamorphic development and adult plasticity
Front Syst Neurosci 4:3
PMID: 20339482

2009: Zapka M., Heyers D., Hein CM., Engels S., Schneider NL., Hans J., Weiler S., Dreyer D., Kishkinev D., Wild JM., Mouritsen H. "Visual but not trigeminal mediation of magnetic compass information in a migratory bird". Nature, 461 (7268): 1274-7. (PUBMED) Highly accessed by public and scientific media!

2007 Dreyer D, Huetteroth W., Schachtner J. 3D reconstruction and standardization of the adult Tribolium brain: a tool to study neuronal plasticity. 2nd Tribolium Meeting, Göttingen

2008 Dreyer D. The Tribolium brain: 3D reconstruction and immunocytochemical mapping. 19^th Neuro-DoWo, Saarbrücken

2008: Dreyer D, Dippel S, Schachtner J. The Tribolium brain: 3D reconstruction and immunocytochemical mapping. Rauischholzhausen Meeting 2008 (Rauischhozhausen, Germany),

2006: Dippel S, Dreyer D, Huetteroth W, Schachtner J Staging of pupal development and brain metamorphosis of the red flour beetle Tribolium castaneum. 99. DZG meeting Münster PM_NB_1.20, p44

2006: Dreyer D, Dippel S, el Jundi B, Huetteroth W, Schachtner J. 3D reconstruction of the Tribolium brain: a tool to study developmental and adult plasticity
99. DZG meeting Münster PM_NB_1.19, p44

2006: Schachtner J, Huetteroth W, Dreyer D, Dippel S, el Jundi B. 3D-reconstructions of the Tribolium brain: a tool to study developmental and adult plasticity. 36th meeting of the Society for Neuroscience, Atlanta, USA, 35.1/W24

2007: Götz B, Dippel S, Dreyer D, Huetteroth W, Schachtner J. Ontogeny of the antennal lobes of the red flour beetle Tribolium castaneum. 100. DZG meeting Köln N14, p107

2007: Dippel S, Goetz B, Dreyer D, Huetteroth W, Schachtner J Pupal staging and metamorphic development of the antennal lobes of the red flour beetle Tribolium castaneum
7th NWG meeting, Göttingen TS8-5B

2007: Schachtner J, Goetz B, Dippel S, Dreyer D, Huetteroth W. Metamorphic development of the antennal lobes of the red flour beetle Tribolium castaneum: 3D-reconstruction and neurochemistry. 37th SfN meeting, San Diego, California, USA, 135.2/F14

2008: Dreyer D, Dippel S, Vitt H, Huetteroth W, Schachtner J. 3D standard brain of the Red Flour Beetle Tribolium castaneum: sex dimorphism, adult plasticity and RNAi. 101. DZG meeting Jena P NB.2, p171 POSTER PRIZE

2008: Dreyer D, Dippel S, Vitt H, Huetteroth W, Schachtner J. 3D standard brain of the red flour beetle Tribolium castaneum: sex dimorphism, adult plasticity and RNAi. 38th SfN meeting, Washington, Washington, USA, 625.18/C6

2009: Kollmann M, Dreyer D, Vitt H, Goetz B, Redelfs S, Schumacher D, Schachtner J. 3D Standard brain of the red flour beetle Tibolium castaneum: A tool to study adult brain development and plasticity - The brain of Tribolium castaneum and its' plasticity. Regionales Tribolium meeting, Köln

2009: Vitt H, Dippel S, Goetz B, Dreyer D, Huetteroth W, Schachtner J
3D Standard Brain of the Red Flour Beetle Tribolium castaneum: A Tool to Study Sex Dimorphism, Adult Plasticity and RNAi. 8th NWG meeting, Göttingen T19-4B