Education

1972	Born in Göttingen, Germany
1991	Abitur (A levels) in Göttingen
1991-1997	Study of Psychology at the University Marburg, Germany
2002	Doctorate in Human Biology at the University Lübeck, Germany
2008	Habilitation in Medical Biometry and Epidemiology at the University Lübeck, Germany

Professional Experience and Appointments

1998-2001	Scientific employee at the Institut für Medizinische Biometrie und Epidemiologie, University Marburg (Prof. Dr. Schäfer)
seit 2001	Scientific employee at the IMBS
2009	Appointment as Akademische Rätin
2010-2019	University Professor (W2) for Medical Biometry and Statistics at the Universität zu Lübeck
since 2011/2019	Member of the Cluster of Excellence Inflammation at Interfaces/Precision Medicine in Chronic Inflammation
2013-2017	Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Genetic Analysis Workshop (National Institutes of Health)
since 2014	Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Forschungszentrum Borstel, Leibniz-Zentrum für Medizin und Biowissenschaften
since 2015	Member of the Steering Committee of the Clinical Research Unit (DFG) 303 Pemphigoid Diseases
since 2015	Principal Investigator in the German Center for Lung Research (DZL)
since 2017	Principal Investigator in the German Center for Cardiovascular Research (DZHK)
since 2019	University Professor (W3) for Medical Biometry and Statistics and Director of the IMBS at the Universität zu Lübeck

Advanced Training and Certificates

2000-2002	Courses "Multiple Testing and Sequential Designs", "Introduction to Medicine", "Clinical Pharmacology" and "Survival Analysis" within the postgraduate study course "Medical Biometriy" of the Universities Heidelberg and Mannheim, Germany
2001	Course "Cancer Epidemiology" and "Asthma Epidemiology" of the International Epidemiology Summer School in Münster, Germany
2004	Certificate "Biometrics in Medicine" of the German Society for Medical Informatics, Biometry and Epidemiology (GMDS) and the German Region of the International Biometric Society (IBS-DR)

Scholarships and Awards

1992-1996	Scholar of the Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes
1997	Scholar of the Deutscher Akademischer Auslandsdienst for a research project at the University of Dundee, Scotland
2007	James V. Neel Young Investigator Award of the International Genetic Epidemiology Society (IGES)
2008	2nd Gustav-Adolf-Lienert-Preis 2008 of the IBS-DR
2017	Dorothea-Erxleben Award for Female Investigators of the Cluster of Excellence Inflammation at Interfaces

Activities in Scientific Societies

2002-2010	Head elect of the Working Group Human Genetics of the GMDS
2003-2009	Member of the Membership Committee of the IGES (Head in 2008)
2006-2014	Member elect of the Fachausschuss Biometrie of the GMDS
2010-2012	Member of the Scientific Program Committee of the IGES (Head in 2011)
2014-2016	Member elect of the Board of Directors of the IGES
2017	President-elect of the IGES
2017/2018/2019	President-elect/President/Past-president of the IGES