04/2009 - today           Scientific assistent at the Institute of Human Genetics at the University Hospital Essen, Essen, Germany  

09/2006 - 04/2009        Master studies in Bioinformatics and Genome Research at the University of Bielefeld, Bielefeld, Germany                                                                               

                                    (Master project at the Centre for Genomic Regulation, Barcelona, Spain; DAAD scholarship)

09/2003 - 08/2006        Bachelor studies in Bioinformatics and Genome Research at the University of Bielefeld, Bielefeld, Germany

07/2003 - 09/2003        Full time student at a language school, Vancouver, Canada

09/1994 - 06/2003        A-level (Abitur), "Theodor-Heuss-Gymnasium", grammar school, Hagen, Germany