Her special interest and research topic is minimally-invasive surgery in term and preterm infants. Recently, she evaluated the hemodynamic effects of laparoscopy and thoracoscopy in babies with congenital heart defects. She completed medical school at the Ludwigs-Maximilians-University Munich, Germany in 2005. After that she started her surgical training in the Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery in Stuttgart. Since 2010, she is doing her special training for pediatric surgery.