About me
Transparent communication has always been my goal and I believe that communication is actually very simple - you just have to do it!
Communication always takes place on both sides:
"The word belongs half to the one who speaks,
and half to him who hears."
Michel de Montaigne
Successful information communication is achieved through a coherent and comprehensible design - coherent on the part of the narrator and comprehensible for the reader.
As a qualified biologist and technical draftsman, I find myself at the interface between the in-depth analysis of data and information and their functional and visually appealing presentation.
So I speak your language and understand how to translate your information and data into the reader’s language.
LIFE
since 01/2024
Freelance Information Designer and Biologist for museum educational programs at the Museum Koenig Bonn / Leibniz Institute for Biodiversity Change
since 06/2022
Freelance Information Designer at the creative studio "Birgit Fricke Informationsdesign - Information design, data visualization & Visual Storytelling"
since 06/2018
Founding and freelance work "Chalkolade for You- Chalk on chalkboard" - Lettering for gastronomy and events
01/2019 - 12/2019
EXIST start-up grant from the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy to promote "Endophytec - Sustainable Plant Protection and Plant Strengthening" - planning and coordination, study and test setup for protected cultivation
05/2012 - 05/2015
Doctoral studies at the INRES Institute of Plant Nutrition of the Faculty of Agricultural Sciences at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-University Bonn and participation in the competence network CROP.SENSe.net - Planning and coordination, study and test setup for protected cultivation and field conditions, participation in conferences and meetings
Dissertation topic "Hyperspectral measurement methods in the host-parasite system sugar beet and nematode" (in progress)
11/2010 - 12/2011
Projekt an der Landwirtschaftskammer NRW in Münster, Referat Bienenkunde zur Untersuchung des Einflusses von Pflanzenschutzmitteln auf Verhalten und Gesundheit von Bienen in Kleinstpopulationen und Wirtschaftsvölkern
10/2002 - 01/2010
Studium der Biologie mit Schwerpunkten Evolution und Biodiversität, Phytopathologie, Molekularbiologie und Biophysik an der Rheinischen-Friedrich-Wilhlems Universität Bonn sowie Westfälische Wilhelms Universität Münster
Diploma thesis "Molecular genetic quantification of wasting disease pathogen Labyrinthula zosterae in eelgrass Zostera marina under experimental heat stress“
01/2000 - 09/2002
Technical Drawer, focus on mechanical engineering - machines and systems engineering at INTERDOMO GmbH and responsibility for content, drawing creation, design, text and layout of technical product brochures, type plates and product labels in collaboration with the head of the IT department
09/1998 - 01/2000
Training as a Technical Drawer, focus on mechanical engineering - machines and systems engineering at INTERDOMO GmbH
Bergmann N., Winters G., Rauch G., Eizaguirre C., Gu J., Nelle P., Fricke B., Reusch TBH (2010) Population-specificity of heat stress gene induction in northern and southern eelgrassZostera marinapopulations under simulated global warming. Molecular Ecology 19(14): 2870-2883.
Bergmann N., Fricke B., Schmidt MC, Tams V., Beining K., Schwitte H., Boettcher AA, Martin DL, Bockelmann AC, Reusch TBH, Rauch G. (2011) A quantitative real-time polymerase chain reaction assay for the seagrass pathogenLabyrinthula zosterae. Molecular Ecology Resources 11(6): 1076-1081
Winters G., Nelle P., Fricke B., Rauch G, Reusch TBH (2001) Effects of a simulated heat wave on photophysiology and gene expression of high- and low-latitude populations ofZostera marina. Marine Ecology Progress Series 435: 83-95.