Faltering growth, disease and non-disease related malnutrition: pediatric tube feeds & oral nutritional supplements, foods for special medical purposes

Business and discovery program lead of health care nutrition products: R&D contact for early life tailored nutrition product portfolio in Southeast Asia and global medical advisor for gut health; collaboration with key opinion leaders and health care professionals; initiation and protocol design of real life evidence and clinical studies in early life nutrition including connected medical devices

Business and discovery research program lead and clinical study advisor: clinical benefit substantiation; ideation and design of clinical trials in early life nutrition, review of clinical study protocols and outcomes; research and publications on the management of infantile colic, regurgitation, and functional constipation; member of the Top Institute for Nutrition (TIFN) project for biomarkers for gut health and irritable bowel syndrome

Project and line manager of a senior multidisciplinary team for early life and advanced medical nutrition: initiation and supervision of academic and non-academic collaborations, discovery projects, and research programs; link with product development for projects on e.g. fermented infant formula, protein hydrolysates, dairy processing, and new technologies; trainer and facilitator in training programs on “the first 1000 days”, early life nutritional programming, and digestive physiology and metabolism

Management of an interdisciplinary research team on digestive physiology following a translational research approach: supervision of preclinical research programs and in vitro digestion models such as the TIM system (TNO, The Netherlands); work and publications on gastrointestinal tolerance of (FSMP) products for enteral nutrition, alternative protein sources, probiotics, digestion of infant formula, and digestive physiology of infants

Lead of the group “microenvironment of tumor cell invasion” including postdoctoral fellows, technicians, PhD students, diploma students, and interns; funded by research grants from the German Science Foundation (DFG), the FRONTIER-Programme of the University of Heidelberg, the Excellency Initiative Germany, and the Helmholtz-Association; publications on single cell force microscopy, atomic force microscopy, and the biophysics of extracellular matrix remodelling; giving lectures and seminars in gastrointestinal physiology at the University of Heidelberg

Postdoctoral fellowship and Emmy-Noether fellowship of the German Science Foundation (DFG): research and publications on molecular mechanisms of protein trafficking and sorting of proteases in cancer cell invasion; proficiency in molecular biology, cell imaging, and 3D tissue culture systems

Practice in internal medicine and intensive care (specialty cardiovascular diseases, hypertension and nephrology); research on renal side effects of chemotherapeutics, development of new bioassays, publications on nephrotoxicity of platinum complexes and discovery of mode of action; patents and inventor prize; postdoctoral fellowship of the German Science Foundation (DFG); lecturer at the University of Münster (Germany); personal research grants from Innovative Medical Research and the Ministry of Education and Science

Medical studies and board exams; internships in internal medicine, angiology, neurology, and surgery; experimental doctorate thesis and research at the institute of physiology, scientific publications on the regulation of tissue remodelling and epithelial barrier function by proteases, graduation with “summa cum laude”, dissertational prize, and special accolade of the Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität (WWU) Münster (Germany)