Work experience:
- April 2020
Provisional head of the Institute for Physiology and Cell Biology
- May 2017
Nominated Professor at the Institute for Physiology and Cell Biology of the University of Veterinary Medicine Hannover, Foundation, leading the Neurogastroenterology group
- April 2016
Abilitation in Physiology. Chair of Human Biologie, Technical University Munich (TUM). Title: “Sensory transmission in the enteric nervous system”
- January 2009 - April 2017
Postdoc at the chair of Human Biology, TUM. Maternity leave: January – October 2014 and November 2016 - April 2017
- January 2006 - Dicember 2008
PhD student at the Anatomical Institut of the faculty of Veterinary Medicine of the Alma Mater Studiorum University of Bologna (Italy)
Education:
- May 2016
German offical license to practice veterinary medicine (Approbation)
- January 2012
Italian offical license to practice veterinary medicine
- April 2009
PhD from the Alma Mater Studiorum University of Bologna (Italy)
Title of the thesis: “Mechanosensitivity in the myenteric plexus of the guinea pig ileum”
- March 2005
“European Specialist” in Veterinary Medicine (Dr. med. vet.) from the faculty of Veterinary Medicine of the Alma Mater Studiorum University of Bologna (Italy).
Title of the Thesis: “Cytoarchitecture, morphology, and lumbosacral spinal cord projections of the red nucleus in the cattle”. Votation 109/110
- September 1998 -March 2005
Student of Veterinary Medicine at the faculty of Veterinary Medicine of the Alma Mater Studiorum University of Bologna (Italy).
Funded Projects:
- German Research Foundation (DFG); MA 5202/1-1, MA 5202/1-2: Mechanosensitivity in the enteric nervous system
- German Research Foundation-GRK 1482: Interface functions of the intestine between luminal factors and host signals
- National Institutes of Health; 1OT2OD024899-01: Comprehensive Structural and Functional Mapping of Mammalian Colonic Nervous System
- German Research Foundation; MA 5202/5-1: Intrinsic sensory-motor circuits regulating gastric motility
- Federal Office for Agricolture and Food: In vitro virulence monitoring of Brachyspira species in intestinal organoids of different pig breeds
