She holds a medical PhD and Habilitation from Charité –Universitätsmedizin in Berlin and a MSc in Public Health from London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM) in London. She also trained as an organizational consultant and coaches young researchers. She has worked in the field of gender medicine for about 15 years, initially focusing on sex differences in autoimmunity in basic research (at UC Davis in California) and clinical practice (at the University of Milan) and then on cardiovascular prevention and prevention of intimate partner violence and sexual harassment (at Charité). She now focuses on developing tools to support the integration of sex and gender aspects into research and clinical practice as well as teaching.