Coordinator of Business Unit Bioeconomy and Life Sciences
- 1999–2004: Studies of Economics at the universities of Hohenheim (Germany) and Gothenburg (Sweden)
- Since 2005: Research Associate at Fraunhofer Institute for Systems and Innovation Research ISI, Competence Center Emerging Technologies
- 2009: Dr. oec. from University of Hohenheim, Department of Economics
- since 2014 Coordinator of the Business Unit Bioeconomy and Life Sciences