[1] She studied biology at the University of Würzburg, during which time she completed an internship at the Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry and became interested in Archaea.
She completed her doctoral research in molecular microbiology at the University of Groningen, where she studied sugar transport in Sulfolobus solfataricus.
[citation needed] In 2006, Albers was awarded a Dutch Research Council VIDI grant to establish her own group at the University of Groningen.
[citation needed] Albers has investigated the structure-property relationships of archaea[3] and the molecular mechanisms that underpin the transmission of environmental cues to its motility structure.
[5] They adapt to extreme living conditions (e.g. hot sulphur springs, salty lakes), are found in a variety of environments around the world.