// studied chemistry at the Free University of Berlin // After receiving her doctorate in biophysical chemistry, she broadened her knowledge in biophysical methods at the Max Planck Society’s Fritz Haber Institute in Berlin // In 1995, she signed up for the glorious adventure of photosynthesis research at the Technical University of Berlin involving work on the crystallisation, structure and function of photosystem II // Her successes in the field of photosynthesis led in 2009 to her habilitation and appointment as a Visiting Professor in the Chemistry Faculty at TU Berlin // In 2012, she relocated her lab to the ­Department of Biology at Berlin’s Humboldt University, where the focus of her research is now the “biophysics of photosynthesis”