The enthusiasm for nutritional physiology began before I started my studies. I was wondering what I actually consist of? What connections do we and the rest of living nature consist of, how do they work together, how do we function as living beings at the molecular level? We can only consist of the molecules that are formed in us from our eating, drinking or breathing, thus what we take into our system from the outside.

These and other questions led me to studies in "Life Science" (biochemistry) at the University of Konstanz. I was enthusiastic about the diversity and complexity of the living nature and always wanted to know more.

At the Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies (FRIAS) and Center for Biosystems Analysis (ZBSA) I accomplished my PhD thesis with the exciting topic of autophagy, which is closely related to nutrition.