| Academic career: | |
| 1990-1999 | Studies of Physics and Medicine at the Ludwig-Maximilian University, Munich, and Georg-August-University, Göttingen |
| 1999-2001 | Medical Assistant (AiP) at the Clinic for General and Vascular Surgery, Klinikum Bremen-Mitte, and at the Clinic for Internal Medicine II, University Hospital Würzburg |
| 2000 | M.D. thesis in Molecular Medical Mycology (Prof. U. Rüchel), Institute for Medical Microbiology, Georg-August-University, Göttingen |
| 2004 | PhD in Microbiology (Prof. W. Goebel), Department of Microbiology, Julius-Maximilians-University, Würzburg |
| 2002-2003 | Postgraduate degree in Bioinformatics, Ruprecht-Karls-University, Heidelberg |
| 2004-2006 | Postdoc with Prof. Dr. M. Frosch, Institute of Hygiene and Microbiology, Julius-Maximilians-University, Würzburg |
| since 2006 | Group leader |
| 2009 | Board examination in „Microbiology, Virology and Infection Epidemiology“ (Facharztprüfung “Mikrobiologie, Virologie und Infektionsepidemiologie”), Bayerische Landesärztekammer |
| 2011 | Habilitation/Venia legendi in Medical Microbiology, Faculty of Medicine, Julius-Maximilians-University, Würzburg |
| since 2012 | Head of the Laboratory for Diagnostic Microbiology at the Institute for Hygiene and Microbiology, University of Würzburg |
| Fellowships/Awards: | |
| 1991-1996 | Student fellowship of the Friedrich-Naumann-Stiftung |
| 2000-2004 | MD/PhD stipend of the Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung (BMBF) |
| 2009 | PostDoc award for microbiology of the Robert-Koch-Stiftung |
| since 2012 | Member of the Graduate School of Life Sciences (GSLS), University of Würzburg |
| since 2012 | Member of the Research Center for Infectious Diseases (ZINF), University of Würzburg |
| Research Fields: | |
| Diagnostic and clinical microbiology |
| Functional and evolutionary pathogenomics of Neisseria meningitidis |
