After studying Biology at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, I did my DPhil in the Physics department at the Freie Universität Berlin.

The main focus of the DPhil thesis was methodologically on Electron Paramagnetic Resonance (EPR). The systems investigated belong to a certain group of blue-light active flavoproteins.

Electron Paramagnetic Resonance (EPR) together with its more widely known couterpart Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) is one of the methods of magnetic resonance spectroscopy.

Flavins are the most abundant cofactors of proteins in nature. Blue-light active flavoproteins can be divided into three classes: (i) phototropins, (ii) proteins containing BLUF domains, and (iii) photolyases and cryptochromes.

A list of my scientific publications