Dominik studied Biology at Stuttgart-Hohenheim University. During his PhD thesis at the Max-Planck-Institute for Chemical Ecology in Jena he worked on the use of modern molecular methods in ecology.
Dominik has been a post-doc at John-Innes-Centre in Norwich (UK) and Max-Planck-Institute for Chemical Ecology in Jena before he joined Jena Bioscience as Account Manager.