2007-2012: Studies of Biosystems Technology/Bioinformatics (M.Sc.) at the Technical University of Applied Sciences

2012-2015: Postgraduates studies at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin in the division Phytomedicine; Topic of PhD-thesis: „Genomic and Functional Analysis of Species within the Acholeplasmataceae - Phytoplasmas and Acholeplasmas“

2016: Postdoctoral position at the Federal Research Centre for Cultivated Plants, Institute for Breeding Research on Fruit Crops, in Dresden for the project  „Overcoming Replant Disease by an Integrated Approach“

Since December 2016: Postdoctoral position at the Thünen-Institute for Forest Genetics, Waldsieversdorf, for the project „Selection of Black Alder (Alnus glutinosa (L.) Gaertn.) towards its resistance to Phytophthora alni and analyses of the resistance“