Qualifications and career
Since March 2025: Associate Professor for ‘Microbiology’ at the University of Münster
2022 – 2025: Head of ‘Microbial Physiology’ research group, Microcosm Earth Center, Philipps-Universität Marburg & Max Planck Institute for Terrestrial Microbiology, DE
04/2022 – 08/2022: Postdoctoral researcher at the Laboratory of Microbiology with Prof. Diana Sousa, Wageningen University & Research, Wageningen, NL
2017 – 2022: Postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Microbiology with Prof. Cornelia Welte & Prof. Mike Jetten, Radboud University, Nijmegen, NL
2013 – 2017: PhD in Microbiology, Mentor: PD Christiane Dahl, University of Bonn, DE
2011 – 2013: MSc in Microbiology, University of Bonn, DE
2008 – 2011: BSc in Biology, University of Bonn, DE
Awards, Grants & Fellowships
| 2025-2030 | ERC Starting Grant ‚Archaebolic‘ |
| 2024 | Offer of an Assistant Professorship at the Technical University of Munich, declined |
| 2024-2027 | DFG research grant ‘Sachbeihilfe Einzelantrag‘ |
| 2022 | Offer of a Junior Professorship at the University of Freiburg, declined |
| 2022 | Van Leeuwenhoek Award |
| 2018-2020 | DFG Research Fellowship by the German research foundation |
| 2014-2016 | Hoechst PhD fellowship of the Aventis Foundation awarded by the Stiftung Stipendienfonds des Verbandes der Chemischen Industrie e.V (VCI) |
| 2013-2014 | Personal fellowship by the Maria von Linden women support program of the University of Bonn |
| 2013 | Excellence fellowship ‘Biology’ of the University of Bonn |