Academic Career

Since 04/2021	PhD candidate Fungal Genetics and Biotechnology, Wood Research Munich, Research Group Fungal Biotechnology in Wood Science
10/2018 – 04/2021	Biology (M.Sc.), TU Munich
10/2015 – 10/2018	Applied Biology (B.Sc.), Karlsruhe Institute of Technology

Research Areas

• PhD Thesis:

  "A. niger strain engineering for xylitol production from agricultural waste by efficient usage and balancing of the redox-pool coupled with heterologous gene expression"

• Previous work:
  • "Construction of a constitutively active Zn2Cys6 transcription factor chimera in Neurospora crassa" (Master’s Thesis)
  • "CRISPR/Cas12a-mediated mutagenesis under the influence of different promoters and temperatures in Arabidopsis thaliana" (Bachelor’s Thesis)