I have been interested in biology ever since I switched to a private catholic boarding school “Die Loburg, Gymnasium Collegium Johanneum” in Muenster, Germany from my old gymnasium in Odesa, Ukraine. After finishing school my path was clear. During my undergraduate studies, I grew fond of human biology and bioinformatics. I graduated among the first with great scores and with a Biology B.Sc. title from Heinrich-Heine-University Duesseldorf, which allowed me to get into a highly competitive graduate program – Molecular Medicine M.Sc. at Charité Berlin.

Here, I deepened my bioinformatic skills, as well as my knowledge of human pathology and immunology. I graduated fourth-best in my class and immediately started my PhD in the group of Univ. Prof. Dr. Birgit Sawitzki at the Institute of Molecular Immunology / Berlin Institute of Health at Charité Berlin. I am currently working with human blood samples to elucidate the mechanisms of immune response to acute respiratory diseases using multi-omics and bioinformatic approaches, as well as functional assays.