Postdoctoral researcher at the Research Group for Experimental Orthopaedics at Heidelberg University Hospital

Visiting Scientist at Murdoch Children’s Research Institute, Laboratory of Prof Dr John Bateman and A/Prof Shireen Lamandé

PhD at Biosciences Institute, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom. Thesis: Exploring the role of endoplasmic reticulum stress in skeletal dysplasia under the supervision of Prof Dr Michael Briggs.

Studies of Biochemistry (B.Sc.) at the University of Cologne, Germany. Thesis: Studies on the function of the chaperone Hsp47 (Studien zur Funktion des Chaperons Hsp47).

Mechanisms of cartilage homeostasis and its disruption; molecular basis of osteoarthritis; in vitro models of cartilage