Experience

Max Planck Institute of Biophysics

• Germany
• Research Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• EMBO Postdoctoral Fellow

  • Jan 2022 - Present

• Postdoctoral Researcher

  • Jun 2020 - Jan 2022



MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology (LMB)

• United Kingdom
• Research Services
• 200 - 300 Employee

• Postdoctoral Researcher

  • Oct 2019 - Jun 2020

• PhD Student

  • Oct 2015 - Sep 2019

  PhD thesis under the supervision of Dr. Wanda Kukulski at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology on the architecture and function on cortical ER - plasma membrane contact sites. The project combined yeast genetics, high-throughput screening and fluorescent live cell imaging with state of the art correlative light and electron microscopy workflow on resin embedded yeast cells as well as cryo- electron tomography to study membrane contact sites in a complementary way.



Universität Tübingen

• Research Services
• 200 - 300 Employee

• MSc Student

  • Oct 2014 - May 2015

  Master Thesis on 'Translational Efficiency and Aggregation of PolyQ Proteins in Yeast scp160 Mutants ' in the group of Prof. Dr. Ralf-Peter Jansen at the Interfaculty Institute of Biochemistry, Tübingen. The project involved yeast genetics, fluorescent microscopy and western blotting. Master Thesis on 'Translational Efficiency and Aggregation of PolyQ Proteins in Yeast scp160 Mutants ' in the group of Prof. Dr. Ralf-Peter Jansen at the Interfaculty Institute of Biochemistry, Tübingen. The project involved yeast genetics, fluorescent microscopy and western blotting.



MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology (LMB)

• United Kingdom
• Research Services
• 200 - 300 Employee

• Summer Student

  • Mar 2014 - Aug 2014

  Research assistant in the Lab of Dr. Simon Bullock at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology under the supervision of Dr. Alessio Vagnoni. The project involved the study of mitochondrial transport in Drosophila wing neurons by live cell fluorescent microscopy, genetic manipulations and western blotting. Research assistant in the Lab of Dr. Simon Bullock at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology under the supervision of Dr. Alessio Vagnoni. The project involved the study of mitochondrial transport in Drosophila wing neurons by live cell fluorescent microscopy, genetic manipulations and western blotting.



Universität Tübingen

• Student Research Assistant

  • Aug 2013 - Dec 2013

  Student research assistant under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Ralf-Peter Jansen on the purification of cortical ER from Saccharomyces cerevisiae. The project involved yeast genetics, sucrose gradient fractionation and western blotting. Student research assistant under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Ralf-Peter Jansen on the purification of cortical ER from Saccharomyces cerevisiae. The project involved yeast genetics, sucrose gradient fractionation and western blotting.



Universität Tübingen

• Undergraduate and Graduate student research assistant

  • Mar 2012 - Feb 2013

  The Kalbacher Lab, Dr. Hubert KalbacherPeptide synthesisLinker synthesisMALDI-TOF MSPeptide mass fingerprintingHPLCImmunoaffinity chromatographyProtein purification The Kalbacher Lab, Dr. Hubert KalbacherPeptide synthesisLinker synthesisMALDI-TOF MSPeptide mass fingerprintingHPLCImmunoaffinity chromatographyProtein purification



Boehringer Ingelheim

• Germany
• Pharmaceutical Manufacturing
• 700 & Above Employee

• Summer Intern

  • Aug 2011 - Sep 2011

  Internship in Process Science, Boehringer Ingelheim RCV, Austria, in the Unit In-Process-Control under the supervision of Dr. Jochen Urthaler. This internship involved analytical HPLC (Reverse-Phase Chromatography and Size Exclusion Chromatography). Internship in Process Science, Boehringer Ingelheim RCV, Austria, in the Unit In-Process-Control under the supervision of Dr. Jochen Urthaler. This internship involved analytical HPLC (Reverse-Phase Chromatography and Size Exclusion Chromatography).



German Red Cross

• Ambulance Service

  • May 2009 - May 2009

  Ambulance driver as 'Rettungshelfer' for the German Red Cross in Biberach.

• Compulsory, alternative military service

  • Aug 2008 - Apr 2009

  Ambulance driver as 'Rettungshelfer' for the German Red Cross in Biberach.