Research Interests
I started my PhD in the group of Margret Sauter, where I was working on the phytosulfokine (PSK) signaling pathway. I studied the phytosulfokine receptor PSKR1, a leucine-rich repeat receptor-like kinase (LRR-RLK) in Arabidopsis. My research was focused on the role of PSKR1 in stomatal closure in response to biotic and abiotic stresses and which proteins might interact with PSKR1 and be involved in the signal transduction. 
I am now interested in how the phytosulfokine signaling pathway can be used by the wheat pathogen Zymoseptoria tritici to facilitate host infection. My research combines molecular and genetic methods on both the fungus and the plant side.  
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Short CV
March 2023 - present: PhD student, Christian-Albrechts University Kiel, Eva Stukenbrock´s lab “Environmental Genomics”
October 2021 – March 2023:  PhD student, Christian-Albrechts University Kiel, Margret Sauters´s lab “Plant Developmental Biology and Physiology”
2021: Master´s thesis, Christian-Albrechts University Kiel, Margret Sauter´s lab “The aquaporin PIP2;1 as a potential interaction partner of PSKR1” (awarded as best Master Thesis in plant science at Kiel University 2021). 
2019 - 2021: M. Sc. Biology, Christian-Albrechts University Kiel
2015 - 2019: B. Sc. Biology, Christian-Albrechts University Kiel