Curriculum vitae

EXPERIENCE

Independent consultant

(2019 –    )  nosomics.org
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(Senior) consultant laboratory services

(2018 – 2019) & (2011 – 2013)
KNCV Tuberculosis Foundation, The Netherlands

Epidemiologist

(2015 – 2018) Médecins Sans Frontières
South Sudan, Bangladesh , Myanmar, Jordan (intermittent short-term assignments)

Laboratory manager

(2007 – 2011) Médecins Sans Frontières
Eswatini, Kenya, Lesotho & MSF International (intermittent short-term assignments)

Research Associate

(2009) Imperial College London, UK & Hinduja Hospital Mumbai, India

EDUCATION

MSc PUBLIC HEALTH IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES

(2014 – 2015) London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom

Thesis: Incidence and health outcomes of common febrile illnesses in less than five-year-old children in rural Ghana. A secondary data analysis.

PhD NATURAL SCIENCES (Dr. sc. nat.)

(2002 – 2007) Institute of Microbiology,  Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich, Switzerland

Thesis: The Impact of HIV-1 Replication on Generalized Immune Activation and Virus-Specific T Cell Responses: Implications for HIV-1 Pathogenesis.

MSc CHEMISTRY

(1997 – 2002) Philipps University Marburg, Germany

Thesis: Das Initiationsmodul der Bacillibactin-Synthetase. Untersuchungen zur Herstellung von Hybridsynthetasen.