My career started at the Center for Plant Molecular Biology (ZMBP) in Tübingen where I got trained as a plant molecular biologist. I got highly fascinated about how plants sense and integrate various environmental signals to optimize their growth and survival, which finally led me to the lab of Andreas Wachter (Tübingen and Mainz, Germany). In his group I performed my PhD and a short Postdoc, focusing on the regulation of light-mediated alternative pre-mRNA splicing during seedling photomorphogenesis. Hence, my main work so far, has focused on light responses in Arabidopsis.
In September 2023, I joined the “roots in salt” team as a postdoctoral researcher. Here, in the lab of Christa Testerink we study how plants cope with salt stress. Soil salinity is an important threat that limits plant growth and development and hence, causes significant crop losses worldwide. In the Testerink group I am part of the Vici team where we aim to identify novel pathways and players that contribute to local root and shoot plasticity in response to salt. We will integrate the obtained knowledge to improve plant resilience to salinity by engineering stress-induced signalling pathways.
Roots in Salt 