Academic education

10/2014 - 10/2017: Masters program „Biostatistics & Medical Biometry“, University of Heidelberg
10/2005 - 06/2012: Medical School, University of Bonn

Scientific degrees

10/2017: Master of Science, University of Heidelberg
06/2014: M.D., University of Bonn, Summa cum laude: „RNA-Seq-based investigation of a viral etiology and prognostic analysis of young patients with oral cancer“ (Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Tanguy Seiwert, Department of Hematology/Oncology, University of Chicago & Prof. Dr. Peter Brossart, Department of Oncology, University Hospital Bonn)
06/2012: Graduation from Medical School, University of Bonn

Scientific career

09/2020 - present: Junior Research Group Leader at the Mildred Scheel School of Oncology Cologne & Department of Translational Genomics, University Cologne
10/2015 - 08/2020: Postdoctoral research fellow, Molecular Pathology, Institute of Pathology and Department of Translational Genomics, University Cologne (Group of Prof. Dr. Martin Sos)
02/2014 - 09/2015: Clinical fellow, Department of Oncology, University Hospital Bonn
12/2012 - 01/2014: Clinical fellow, Department III of Internal Medicine for Cardiology/Pneumology, University Hospital Cologne
03/2009 - 02/2010: Research fellow with Prof. Dr. Tanguy Seiwert, Institute for Hematology/Oncology, University of Chicago

Honors / Awards / Memberships

01/2021: Associated Research Group at the Center for Molecular Medicine Cologne, University Hospital Cologne
08/2019: Second place in the appointment process for the full professorship position (W2) “Molecular Head and Neck Oncology” at the Department of Otolaryngology, University Hospital Cologne
03/2019 - 03/2021: Memorial-Scholarship, Else Kröner-Fresenius-Stiftung 2015: Gerok-Scholarship, University Hospital Bonn
2009 – 2010: Research scholarship, „Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes“ 2006 – 2012: Scholar of the „Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes”