Scientific career: 2013 - today: Manager of the DZL/UGMLC Giessen Biobank 2013 - today: faculty member of the German Center for Lung Research (DZL) and Universities of Giessen and Marbvurg Lung Center (UGMLC) 2006 - 2018: Faculty member of the Excellence Cluster Cardio-Pulmonary System (ECCPS) since 2003: Project leader in various individual and collabora research projects funded by the German Research Council (DFG) or the Federal ministry for Education and Research (BMBF) 2001 - 2003 Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Department of Internal Medicine, Justus-Liebig University University education: 2001: Dr. rer. nat. (summa cum laude), Saarland University Saarbrücken, Germany 1995 - 2000: PhD thesis work, Department of Pharmacy and biopharmaceutics, Saarland University; Saarbrücken, Germany 1995: Approbation in Pharmacy 1990 - 1994: Studies of Pharmacy at the Philipps University of Marburg, Germany