I'm a journalist with a deep passion for life sciences & research since 1996;
after a diploma/master study in Biology at the University of Tübingen, with a focus on microbiology, biochemistry, zoology, parasitoloy
- so I'm covering topics in the broad field of life sciences, like epidemics/diseases, evolutinary biology,genetics, tropical medicine, palaeogenetics and botanics: from Aids and citrus plants, to neanderthals, stem cells, vaccines and Wisent behaviour.

After four years freelancing in Berlin, I was working
from 2000 to 2006 as a staff writer at the science desk of the daily newspaper "Die Welt" and later the "Berliner Morgenpost" too;
01/2007- 09/2007 I moved to "FACTS", a Swiss weekly Newsmagazine, in Zürich;
since 10/2007 I'm at the science desk of the "Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung" in Frankfurt, now responsible for the science section.