Curriculum Vitae
Academic Positions
11/2021 - present: Senior Research Associate, Department of Veterinary Medicine, University of Cambridge, UK.
Research Topic: Functional genomics to study antimicrobial resistance and host-pathogen interactions in Klebsiella pneumoniae.
Supervisor: Professor Julian Parkhill
07/2021 - present: Visiting Scientist, MRC-Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge UK, and Heart and Lung Research Institute, University of Cambridge, UK.
Research Topic: Functional genomics of Mycobacterium abscessus infections
Supervisor: Professor Andres Floto
06/2019 – 10/2021: Research Associate, Department of Veterinary Medicine, University of Cambridge, UK.
Supervisor: Professor Julian Parkhill
01/2017 – 05/2019: Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Pathogen Genomics, Wellcome Sanger Institute, Hinxton, UK
Supervisor: Professor Julian Parkhill
05/2015 – 12/2016: Postdoctoral Researcher, Department of Molecular Bacteriology Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research, Braunschweig, Germany.
Research Topic: Rapid detection of antimicrobial resistance in Gram negative bacteria.
Supervisor: Professor Susanne Häußler
Education
01/2011 – 04/2015: Technische Universität Braunschweig, Biology (Dr. rer. nat, awarded 09/2015)
Thesis title: “Antibiotic resistance and pathogenicity in the Gram-negative bacteria Pseudomonas aeruginosa and Klebsiella pneumoniae”; in cooperation with the Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research in the Department Molecular Bacteriology
Supervisors: Professor Michael Steinert & Professor Susanne Häußler.
10/2008 – 11/2010: Technische Universität Braunschweig, Biology (M.Sc.).
Thesis title: “Genetic Determinants of Pseudomonas aeruginosa antibiotic resistance”.
Supervisor: Professor Susanne Häußler
10/2005 – 10/2008: Technische Universität Braunschweig, Biology (B.Sc.).
Thesis title: “Establishing Chromatin immunoprecipitation-chip (ChIP-on-chip) in Pseudomonas aeruginosa“.
Supervisor: Professor Susanne Häußler