I am a veterinary scientist with a focus on immune regulation in animals, particularly cattle. I work on capturing the type, magnitude, as well as duration of the inflammatory response to improve our understanding of immune regulation in these animals as well as designing and evaluating intervention strategies. My current research goal is to establish a reliable and standardized assay platform for the detection of meaningful inflammatory biomarkers in bovine biological samples. My long-term vision is for these assays to become validated as diagnostic tools that can be used to guide intervention strategies, reduce antimicrobial use, and promote wellbeing and productivity in cattle.

• PhD, Immunology Unit, University of Veterinary Medicine, Hannover, Germany 2009
• DVM, College for Veterinary Medicine, Justus Liebig University Giessen, Germany 2006

• 8/2024 - current, Associate Director Serology Laboratory
  Animal Health Diagnostic Center Department for Population Medicine and Diagnostic Sciences, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
• 7/2023 - current, Assistant Professor of Practice
  Department for Population Medicine and Diagnostic Sciences, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
• 10/2022 - 6/2023, Senior Research Associate
  Department for Population Medicine and Diagnostic Sciences, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
• 1/2016 - 9/2022, Research Associate
  Department for Population Medicine and Diagnostic Sciences, Quality Milk Production Services, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
• 5/2011 - 12/2015, Post Doctoral Associate
  Cornell Program for Applied Research in Mastitis Cornell University, College of Veterinary Medicine, Ithaca, NY
• 2/2009 - 3/2011, Post Doctoral Associate
  Immunology Unit, University of Veterinary Medicine, Hannover, Germany

List of publications

06/2013- 07/2015: Fellowship from the German Research Foundation (DFG) Project SI 1987/1-1: The role of natural killer cells in modulating the immune response in bovine E. coli mastitis.

• Since 01/2016: Member of the editorial board for the Journal of Dairy Science
• Since 01/2016: Member of the American Dairy Science Association