I work as a researcher and curator at the Zoological Museum in Hamburg, Germany. My interest are some of the neglected groups of animals, my focus is on horsehair worms (Nematomorpha) and priapulids (Priapulida). I am also interested in the marine meiofauna, this is the community of microscopicalls small animals living between sand grains in marine sediments. I am interested in the body plan of these animals and also in their diversity and distribution.