Academic education
2022 - present Senior physician (Oberärztin) for pulmonology
2021 Boarded specialist for internal medicine and pulmonology (Fachärztin für Innere Medizin und Pneumologie)
2017 - 2021 Resident (Assistenzärztin) in pulmonology, supervisor: PD Dr. Konrad Frank, Department III of Internal Medicine and Cystic Fibrosis Center Department of Pediatrics, supervisor: Prof. Dr. Jörg Dötsch, University Hospital Cologne
2015 Boarded specialist for internal medicine and nephrology (Fachärztin für Innere Medizin und Nephrologie)
2008 - 2015 Resident (Assistenzärztin) Department II of Internal Medicine, supervisor: Prof. Dr. Thomas Benzing, University Hospital Cologne
2006 - 2007 Resident (Assistenzärztin) Department II of Internal Medicine, supervisor: Prof. Dr. Gerd Walz, University Hospital Freiburg
1997 - 2005 Medical School University of Freiburg, Germany
Scientific degrees
2020 Habilitation: “Regulation of the DNA damage response signal transduction in carcinogenesis and degenerative kidney diseases”, University of Cologne, 2020, mentor: Prof. Dr. Thomas Benzing
2006 Doctorate:” Identification of the transport-protein PACS-1 as a nephrocystin interacting protein”, University of Freiburg, 2006, degree: summa cum laude, supervisor: Prof. Dr. Gerd Walz
Scientific career
04/2022 – present Oberärztin (senior physician) and Research Group Leader Pulmonology, Internal Medicine III, University Hospital of Cologne
2008 – 2017 Postdoctoral researcher and Research Group Leader, Nephrolab, Internal Medicine II, University Hospital of Cologne
Honors / Awards / Memberships
2022 – present Member of the steering committee of the Lung Cancer Center Cologne/Solingen (Vorstandsmitglied Lungenkrebszentrum Köln/Solingen, LuKS)
2022 - present Member the of CoPf-program “Coaching for Future Female Professors”
2022 Travelgrant of SFB1399 for a workshop for endobronchial ultrasound bronchoscopy of the European Respiratory Society (ERS)
2020 - present Member of the European Respiratory Society (ERS)
2020 - present Member of the German Society of pulmonology (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Pneumologie)
2019-2020 Gusyk-family-support-position for researchers with family responsibilities (Gusyk-Familienförderstelle Universität zu Köln)
2015 - present Member of the German Society for Internal Medicine (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Innere Medizin DGIM)
2013-2015 Köln-Fortune stipend for female habilitation prospects (Köln Fortune Stipendium zur Förderung des weiblichen Wissenschaftlichen Nachwuchses mit dem Ziel der Habilitation)
2014 3. Professorinnenprogramm University of Cologne
2014 - present Member of the editorial board of the journal “Frontiers in Pediatrics”
Research Group leader
University Hospital Cologne
Clinic III for Internal Medicine