Head of the Business Development and Marketing team for the Jena Bioscience group.Jena Bioscience is a leading manufacturer of life science reagents and raw materials. In particular, we are only of one a few original manufacturers of nucleotides and modified nucleotides in the world, such as those used in genomics sequencers, mRNA production, or life science research.

Larova GmbH is one of only a few original manufacturers of deoxyribonucleotides (dNTPs) and is the market-leader in dNTP quality and performance.Through 2020 and 2021 we significantly increased our annual production capacity to over 5000 L dNTPs (100 mM) to ensure we can support both existing and new customers with the huge demand created by Covid-19 PCR testing. I am principally responsible for running the commercial side of the organisation, adding value through customer acquisition and retention, as well as improving quality of service.I am active in operations and production, working to mitigate risks and reduce production costs to ensure we deliver a stable and competitive service to our customers.

Working as an organic chemist on discovery of inhibitors of multicellular development in the model organism Dictyostelium discoideum.

Member of organising committee for the MiCom 2017 conference (6th International Conference on Microbial Communication for Young Scientists).MiCom is an interdisciplinary conference centered on the theme of microbial communication. It is organised entirely by PhD students of the JSMC graduate School in Jena. MiCom 2017 will host internationally-renowned speakers, with around 200 attendees from 28 different countries. http://www.micom.uni-jena.de/