•  since October 2007 Scholarship recipient in the doctorate programme biomedicine funded by the Villigst Protestant Academic Foundation.; Dissertation Topic: “Diploma-Patients?” Autonomy and Subjectivity using the Example of / Case Study on Breast Cancer Self-Help (Groups), Advisors: Prof. Dr. Alfons Bora (Bielefeld) and Prof. Dr. Regine Kollek (Hamburg)
  
• 2006 employed Research Assistant under Prof R. Kollek (FSP Biogum), University of Hamburg
• Thesis Topic: „Total Managing of Life? 
A Study of the Relation between Biosciences and the Modern State“; after completing my undergraduate studies at  1995 I was employed as Research Assistant at Gene-Ethics Network e.V.
  
• Undergraduate Studies in Sociology, Political Science and Journalism at the Free University of Berlin
  
• Journalist, freelance author and editor; Activist in cooperation with various political and multilateral organisations

Research Focus

• Medicine and Concept of Humanity, Technologies of Self
• Biosciences and Body Image