Curriculum:

• Doctorate at the Chair of Chemistry of Biogenic Raw Materials at the Technical University of Munich (since 2019)
• Master Thesis at the Chair of Biochemistry II (2018)
  Subject: Kinetic studies of the small laccase Ssl1 from Streptomyces sviceus
• Erasmus semester at the University of Bern in “Chemistry and Molecular Sciences” (2018)
• Bachelor thesis at the Chair of Biochemical Plant Physiology at the Heinrich-Heine-University Düsseldorf (2016)
  Topic: Expression and purification of chimeric PEP carboxylases
• Bachelor and Master studies in Biochemistry at the Heinrich-Heine-University Düsseldorf

Research:

I work on cell-free enzyme cascades, combining enzymes from different metabolic pathways to produce chemicals from biowaste or C1-Chemicals that can be derived from CO2. My focus is on the design and optimisation of these systems. In creating such enzyme cascades, I try to shorten natural metabolic pathways by introducing specific enzymes and to establish cofactor neutrality in the system. To optimise the systems, I characterise the respective enzymes and deal with possible interactions of these with other cascade components.