Teamleader Microbiology & Biochemistry at Eurofins CLF Specialised Nutrition Testing Services GmbH as analytical Center of Excellence for baby food and specialised nutrition• Management of the department of Microbiology and Biochemistry• Professional and disciplinary leadership of staff• Implementation of Lean and 5S• Preparation and support of in-house and customer audits• Validation, verification, risk analyses and risk assessments• Assistance in the handling of customer complaints in accordance with DIN EN ISO/EC 17025• Ensuring and implementing of specifications and guidelines to Hygiene, food and work safety at the site• Project planning, coordination, implementation and evaluation• Budget planning and controlling• Answering of customer requests• Mentoring of graduate students on all aspects of research

• Research focused on Hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection• Project coordination, group development and implementation of experiments in S1 and S2 labs• Projects: immunological mechanisms of virus persistence, functional characterization of HCV resistance mutations against direct antiviral drugs• Work with HCV replicon and cell culture models of HCV for phenotypic characterization of HCV variants and their interaction with signal pathways of the innate immune system• Methods: work with different cell lines, DNA and RNA extraction, cDNA synthesis, mutagenesis, cloning, real-time PCR• Mentored graduate student on all aspects of research

• Research focused on Hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection• Project coordination and implementation for Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG)• Projects: apoptotic functions of Hepatitis B Virus X-proteins and analyzes of genotypic specific transcription regulation of Hepatitis B virus• DNA-, RNA-, Protein- and Adenoviral technics, work with different cell cultures and transfection• Methods: Amplification of DNA and RNA with Realtime PCR and Realtime RT-PCR with Molecular Beacons or TaqMan probes, Sequence analyzes, ChIP assays, ELISA• Mentored graduate students on all aspects of research