Since 2018: Head of the Department Biotechnology at the Helmholtz Institute Freiberg for Resource Technology/HZDR
2011-2018: Leader of the Young Investigator's Group "Nanostrukturierte Kompositmaterialien (NanoBio)" (Nanostructured composites) at the HZDR
2002-2011: Scientist at the Forschungszentrum Dresden-Rossendorf
1999-2002: PhD student at the GBF, Braunschweig, Germany
1992-1998: Studies of Biology at the Universities of Münster and Osnabrück, Germany
Expertise: Microbiology, Interactions of microbes and metals, biohydrometallurgy, metal recovery with microbes and biomolecules; bioleaching, biosorption, bioflotation