I studied biology at the Philipps University of Marburg before I joined the lab of Prof. Stefan Jentsch at the Max-Planck Institute of Biochemistry in Martinsried/Munich to work on Ubiquitin-like proteins and pre-mRNA processing during my PhD thesis. After graduation I joined Marc's lab in July 2014 as a postdoc focusing on bidirectional cell cell communications between immune cells and their microenvironment in the bone marrow during lymphomagenesis. We aim to elucidate specific alterations and aberrant signaling networks in the bone marrow niches that serve as predisposition events permitting mutant haematopoietic cell survival and expansion at early stages of leukemic transformation.