I received my BSc in Statistics and MSc in Biostatistics from TU Dortmund University, Germany. In 2012 I started my training in Environmental Epidemiology at the IUF - Leibniz-Research Institute for Environmental Medicine, Düsseldorf, Germany, where I did research on the health effects of air pollution. Shortly after, I got more and more interested in the interactions between environmental and genetic risk factors. In 2018 I received my PhD in Biostatistics from TU Dortmund University and completed a short-term postdoctoral fellowship with Dr. Michael Kobor at the University of British Columbia, where I gained insights into the field of epigenetics. From August 2018 to December 2019 I continued my research as a postdoctoral fellow in Dr. Michael Epstein’s lab at Emory University, where I went deeper into the methodological challenges of DNA methylation analyses by working on kernel-based statistical approaches for associations with multi-dimensional phenotypes as well as risk score approaches. In January 2020 I joined the Departments of Epidemiology and Environmental Health (Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University) as Assistant Professor. In my free time, I enjoy traveling and hiking with my husband and our baby.