Independent consultant
(2019 – ) Nosomics.org
(Senior) consultant laboratory services
(2018 – 2019) & (2011 – 2013)
KNCV Tuberculosis Foundation, The Netherlands
Epidemiologist
(2015 – 2018, 2022) Médecins Sans Frontières
Lebanon, South Sudan, Bangladesh, Myanmar, Jordan (intermittent short-term assignments)
Laboratory scientist
(2007 – 2011) Médecins Sans Frontières
Eswatini, Kenya, Lesotho & MSF International (intermittent short-term assignments)
Research Associate
(2009) Imperial College London, UK & Hinduja Hospital Mumbai, India
EDUCATION
MSc Public Health in Developing Countries
(2014 – 2015) London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom
Thesis: Incidence and health outcomes of common febrile illnesses in less than five-year-old children in rural Ghana. A secondary data analysis.
PhD Natural Science (Dr. sc. nat.)
(2002 – 2007) Institute of Microbiology, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich, Switzerland
Thesis: The Impact of HIV-1 Replication on Generalized Immune Activation and Virus-Specific T Cell Responses: Implications for HIV-1 Pathogenesis.
MSc Chemistry
(1997 – 2002) Philipps University Marburg, Germany
Thesis: Das Initiationsmodul der Bacillibactin-Synthetase. Untersuchungen zur Herstellung von Hybridsynthetasen.