About me

I received a PhD from the Technical University of Braunschweig (Germany), spent several years as a postdoc at Aarhus Universit (Denmark) and have led independent academic research groups at the Goethe-University Frankfurt (Germany) and the University of Oxford (UK) between 2014 and 2023.

Since 2023, I am part of the Institute of Translational Medicine at the Private University in the Principality of Liechtenstein (UFL).

My research at aims at understanding, how the molecular structure of an individual’s membrane proteins can influence the function of their immune system.
Understanding this structure-function relationship can be the basis for the development of new, personalised drugs.

The plasma membrane, the surrounding layer of all living cells, functions as a physical and chemical barrier between the cell’s inner fluid (the cytosol) and the “outside world”.
I study proteins that are embedded in the plasma membrane of cells, such as human blood cells or pathogenic (disease-causing) fungi and bacteria.