What is your current position?
I am a Dr. rer. nat. candidate in the group of Prof. Mario Zaiss at Medicine 3 – Rheumatology & Immunology at Friedrich‑Alexander‑University and Universitätsklinikum Erlangen. Furthermore, I am part of the Transregio CRC 369 “DIONE – Degeneration of Bone due to Inflammation”.
What is your main research focus?
My main research focus is the gut-bone and the gut-joint axis in rheumatoid arthritis. I’m investigating how (subclinical) inflammatory processes in the gut can foster bone loss and joint inflammation, supported and enabled by endothelial leakiness. By exploring the cells in the different locations of interest, I’m aiming to identify the key players underlying the gut-bone and gut-joint axis.
What does your typical workday look like?
A typical workday does not really exist for me since it depends on experiments. My workdays are a mixture of wet-lab and dry-lab work. I really enjoy that I can do both: working at the lab-bench but also extensively analysing data, e.g. large omics-datasets. Aside, I’m learning new things every day.
