Biography

I have recently graduated from Imperial College London with an M.Res. in Structural Molecular Biology after obtaining a B.Sc in Biochemistry from the Technical University of Munich in 2009. My decision to focus on the structural and biophysical aspects of biochemistry was influenced by two research projects in the field of DNA repair and RNA crystallography at the Immune Disease Institute in Boston, MA and at Yale University, respectively, in 2009 and 2010. At Cambridge, I am pursuing a PhD in Biochemistry, where I will have the opportunity to combine my previous research interests by structurally characterizing a protein factor that is part of the replisome progression complex (RPC) and thus is involved in DNA replication. With the dysregulation or dysfunction of RPC components being linked to genomic instability, I hope that my work in Cambridge will help to contribute to a better understanding of the mutual interplay of different RPC factors and to clarify their respective role.