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, which would later become important for my doctorate. 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 my studies, I was given the opportunity for the first time to actively advance my vision by working on research projects at the Institute of Health and Nursing Science , where I am currently working and doing my doctorate. The IGPW is based on the tradition of public health nursing, which means that knowledge from the health and social sciences as well as nursing science is used to prevent the development or expansion of health problems through population- and social space-related educational measures and to contribute to better health in the population, social communities, municipalities or regions. My dissertation also falls into the area of health care.
It is still unclear what I will do after my doctorate. I can imagine continuing on the academic path. But a move into political consulting or science journalism is also an option for me.
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
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