Studied molecular biotechnology at the Technical University of Munich as well as Public Health at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich. She has been working as a research assistant at the Department of Anesthesiology at the University of Munich since 2009 and obtained her doctorate degree in 2017. Her responsibilities include the planning and execution of clinical and experimental studies in the field of acupuncture and pain research, the organization of international cooperation projects and the design of educational patient seminars. In addition, she is a member of the Science Center of the German Acupuncture Association (DÄGfA). Germany