Ms Katharina received a B.Sc degree in the department of Geo-Botanics of Bochum University. Her master thesis (Studies on the cellular and molecular processes involved in the vaccination with cytokine depot vaccines) was done at CIRES. She received a MS.c in the Faculty of Biology and Biotechnology of the Ruhr-Universitaet Bochum in 2013. Since 2014 She is Research Scientist at CIRES.