I studied Biology with a focus on Molecular Immunology, Virology and Microbiology at the University of Freiburg and the ENS Lyon; and obtained my diploma degree in 2007. I was then awarded a postgraduate fellowship from the Boehringer Ingelheim Fonds (BIF) to conduct my doctoral studies in Immunology, investigating the role of cytokines in T cell activation and memory formation during infection. After receiving my Dr. rer. nat in 2011, I joined the group of Facundo D. Batista at Cancer Research UK (now the Francis Crick Institute) in London, where I was awarded a fellowship of the German Research Foundation (DFG) to study the role of actin regulators in mediating B cell receptor signaling. In 2017, I started my own research group at the TranslaTUM in Munich. In 2023, I joined the Medical University of Graz as a group leader (Tenure Track Research Professor).
In addition to leading my research group, I am have extensive experience in training of users in theory of flow cytometry and multi-parametric panel design. I teach and implement advanced data-analysis of flow cytometric, mass cytometric (CyTOF) and imaging mass cytometric data using algorithms such as FlowSOM, tSNE and UMAP.
I am also involved in teaching at the Medical University of Graz and the FH Joanneum Graz.
Since 2025, I am co-speaker of the Working group „B cells in Health and Disease“ of the Austrian Society for Allergy and Immunology (ÖGAI).