since 2020: Group leader (SNSF Ambizione), Neuroimmunology/Mundt group, Institute of Experimental Immunology
2016 - 2020: Postdoctoral fellow, Inflammation research/Becher group, Institute of Experimental Immunology, University of Zurich (Switzerland)
2012 - 2016: Research associate, Chair of Immunology/Groettrup group, University of Konstanz (Germany)
2012 - 2016: PhD in Immunology (summa cum laude)
Konstanz Research School Chemical Biology (KoRS-CB)
Thesis: „Targeting the Immunoproteasome in Health and Disease" (with Prof. Marcus Groettrup)
University of Konstanz (Germany)
2009 - 2011: MSc in Life Science
Thesis: “Influence of an LMP7-specific immunoproteasome inhibitor on experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis” (with Prof. Marcus Groettrup)
University of Konstanz (Germany)
2006 - 2009: BSc in Life Science
Thesis: “Charakterisierung eines LMP2-spezifischen Inhibitors des Immunoproteasoms (with Prof. Marcus Groettrup)
University of Konstanz (Germany)
Novartis Foundation for Medical-Biological Research 2024 (as PI)
Hartmann-Müller Foundation 2024 (as PI)
Swiss MS Society 2024-2025 (as PI)
FAN (Fonds zur Förderung des akademischen Nachwuchses) 2023 (as PI)
SNSF Ambizione 2020 (as PI)
Swiss MS Society 2021-2022 (as PI)
Forschungskredit UZH 2018 (as PI)
Dr. Wilhelm Hurka Foundation (as PI)
Travel Grant, ISNI Conference Brisbane 2018 (Australia)
As main supervisor:
PhD students
Viola Bugada (PhD student, since 2023)
Eleni Meuffels (PhD student, since 2023)
Juan Villar-Vesga (PhD student, since 2021)
Master students
Pascale Clément (Master Student, 2024)
Deborah Greis (Master Student, 2023-2024)
Eleni Meuffels (SEMP Student,2022)
Yakine Raach (Master student, 2022-2023)
Jeanne Kim (Master student, 2021)
As co- supervisor (with Prof. Burkhard Becher):
PhD students
Pascale Zwicky (2017-2021)
Myrto Andreadou (2016-2022)
Block course Interdisciplinary Brain Sciences (IBD), University of Zurich (Switzerland), 6-week lab rotation
Bio430 Immunology Block Course, University of Zurich (Switzerland), Course organisation and teaching (from 2016)
Lecture for pharma company (invited speaker): “Algorithm guided high-dimensional data analysis using R” – Idorsia Pharmaceuticals Ltd, Allschwil (Switzerland) (05/2019)
Lecture in Immunology (invited speaker): “Characterization of CNS APCs - who tells encephalitogenic T cells they have arrived?” - University of Konstanz (Germany) (12/2018)
Advanced Immunology course (6-weeks, yearly),University of Konstanz (Germany): Course organisation and supervision of Master students (2012-2016)
Topic Editor: Frontiers of Immunology and Neurology (Research topic: CNS Myeloid Cell Function in Health and Disease)
Referee: Nature Neuroscience, Nature Immunology, eLife, European Journal of Immunology, Autophagy, Frontiers of Immunology, Heliyon, Neuroscience letters, Scandinavian Journal of Immunology
Member of PhD thesis committees (UZH)
Member of hiring committees (UZH)
SYIS - Swiss Young Immunologists Society (active member)
SSAI - Swiss Society for Allergology and Immunology
ISNI - International Society of Neuroimmunology
EMDS: European Macrophage and Dendritic Cell Society
32nd Betty and David Koetser Award for Brain Research lecture - Zurich (Switzerland), 2024 (Invited speaker)
Agean 11th International Conference on Autoimmunity: Mechanisms and Novel Treatments, Hersonissos, Crete (Greece), 2024
Hertie MS Symposium / Schloss & Gut Liebenberg (Germany), 2023&24 (Invited speaker)
Agean 10th International Conference on Autoimmunity: Mechanisms and Novel Treatments, Chania, Crete (Greece), 2022
World Immune regulation meeting (WIRM), Swiss Institute of Allergy and Asthma Research (SIAF), Davos (Switzerland), 2022
Cell Symposia: The Neuro-Immune Axis – Long Beach (USA), 2019
Joint Meeting of the German Society for Immunology (DGfl) and the Italian Society of Immunology, Clinical Immunology and Allergology (SIICA) – Munich (Germany), 2019
International Congress of Neuroimmunology (ISNI) – Brisbane (Australia), 2018
International Symposium on Dendritic Cells – Aachen (Germany), 2018
Salvisberg Symposium on Advances in Neuropathology (SSAN) – Bludenz (Austria), 2017
World Immune Regulation Meeting 2022 (WIRM), Davos (CH); abstract selection
Immunology retreat 2017, Saint Jean d’Aulps (F); program organization
Dr. Florian Ingelfinger (Weizman Institute for Science, Israel)
Prof. Joost Smolders (MS Center ErasMS, Erasmus Medical Center Rotterdam, the Netherlands)
Dr. Felix Hartmann (DKFZ, Heidelberg, Germany)
Prof. Aiman Saab (Institute of Pharmacology and Toxicology, UZH, Switzerland)
Prof Sebastian Jessberger (Brain Research Institute, UZH, Switzerland)
Dr. Bettina Schreiner (Department of Neurology, University Hospital Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland)
Prof. Christoph Schneider (Department of Physiology, UZH, Switzerland)
Prof. Burkhard Becher (Institute of Experimental Immunology, UZH, Switzerland)
Prof. Melanie Greter (Institute of Experimental Immunology, UZH, Switzerland)
Prof. Lothar Dieterich (University of Heidelberg, Germany)
Maternity leave: 03.2021 – 06.2024
Maternity leave: 06.2021 – 09.2021