My career as a healthcare scientist began at St. Vincenz Hospital in Paderborn with my training as a nurse. During this time, I gained my first insights into the care of patients in the outpatient and inpatient sectors of our healthcare system.
After my state examination in nursing, I decided to study for a Bachelor’s degree in Vocational Education and Training with the subjects of Nursing Science and German Studies at the University of Osnabrück. Here I acquired my first educational science skills. In addition, the nursing science seminar Sociology of Nursing with Professor Hartmut Remmers aroused my interest in the sociological analysis of our society. I wanted to understand how systems work so that I could later use this knowledge to help improve social systems, such as the healthcare system. In this context, I also studied the systems theory literature of Talcott Parsons and Niklas Luhmann.
In my Master’s degree, I decided to study Community and Family Health Nursing (CFHN) at the University of Bremen to learn how health nursing interventions can work at a more abstract population level. So I changed my perspective from the micro level to systems at the macro level. However, I lacked the quantitative orientation that was necessary for my understanding in order to be able to conduct health services research and health systems research. I therefore switched to the Master’s degree course in Epidemiology . The study of epidemiology as a central discipline of health sciences broadened my view from nursing science to health science topics and thus completed my path to becoming a health scientist.
After completing my studies, I was given the opportunity to contribute to research projects at the Institute of Health and Nursing Science (IGPW) for the first time. The IGPW is rooted in the tradition of Public Health Nursing, which integrates knowledge from the health sciences, social sciences, and nursing science to prevent the emergence or escalation of health problems through population- and community-based educational interventions and to promote health at the level of populations, social groups, municipalities, and regions. My dissertation can also be situated thematically within this field.
Professional activity
04/2023 – present: Research associate at the Institute of Health and Nursing Science at Charité
08/2020 – 03/2023: Nurse in the Emergency Department of the Red Cross Hospital (RKK) in Bremen (part-time)
06/2022 – 03/2023: Student assistant at the Institute for Public Health and Nursing Research at the University of Bremen, Department 1: Health Services Research
12/2012 – 02/2022: Student assistant at the Leibniz Institute for Prevention Research and Epidemiology (BIPS GmbH) in Bremen
11/2022 – 02/2022: Student assistant at the Institute for Public Health and Nursing Research at the University of Bremen, working group Epidemiology of Demographic Change
04/2021 – 09/2021: Student assistant at Faculty 11 (Department: Statistics of Health Sciences) at the University of Bremen
05/2017 – 10/2019: Nurse in the neurological early rehabilitation department of Osnabrück Hospital (part-time)
08/2018 – 03/2019: Student assistant at the Institute for Health Research and Education at the University of Osnabrück
04/2016 – 09/2016: Nurse in pediatric cardiology at MHH hospital (part-time)
11/2015 – 02/2016: Nurse at the RWTH Aachen Eye Clinic (part-time)
Professional training
06/2024 – today: Doctoral candiate at the Medical Faculty of the Charité, in the doctoral program “Medical Sciences”.
10/2020 – 02/2023: Master’s degree program “Epidemiology” at the University of Bremen
Academic degree: Master of Science
10/2019 – 09/2020: Master’s degree program “Community and Family Health Nursing” at the University of Bremen
10/2016 – 09/2019: Bachelor’s degree program “Vocational Education” (subjects: Nursing Science and German Studies) at the University of Osnabrück
Academic degree: Bachelor of Arts
10/2015 – 03/2016: Bachelor’s degree program “Computer Science” at the Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule (RWTH) Aachen University
03/2013 – 02/2014: Bachelor’s degree program “Nursing dual” at the Münster University of Applied Sciences
10/2012 – 09/2015: Training as a nurse at the nursing school of St. Vincenz-Krankenhaus GmbH in Paderborn
State examination in nursing