Professional Career:

1988 – 1995
Student of Biology at Georg-August-University Göttingen (Diploma thesis at the Dpt. of Virology and Immunology at the German Primate Center)

1996 – 2002
Scientific research at the Dpt. of Virology and Immunology at the German Primate Center. Projects on "Preclinical appraisal of immunogencity and tumourigenic potential of rhadinoviral transformed T-Cells in rhesus macaque", vaccine-development and assessment of immunopathogenesis of SIV/HIV

2002 – 2004
Scientific research with study group on prions at the Dpt. of Neurology at the University of Göttingen: „Establishment and standardisation of capillary electrophoresis for detection of abnormal prionprotein in human cerebrospinal fluid“.

Since 2005
Head of cleanroom laboratory IOZK