She is a full professor and holds the Chair of the Department for Microbial Bioactive Compounds at the Interfaculty Institute for Microbiology and Infection Medicine, University of Tübingen, Germany.
During her PhD (1993 – 1997) at the Medical Department of the University of Bonn, she specialized in microbiology and antibiotic research.
She returned to the academic world as Professor for Pharmaceutical Biology at the University of Düsseldorf, Germany in 2010.
[2] She has been a full professor at the University of Tübingen and a member of the Interfaculty Institute for Microbiology and Infection Medicine since 2014.
Her department is dedicated to finding new mechanisms for killing multi-drug resistant bacterial pathogens.