Professional experience06/2018-07/2019 Scientific assistent, Department of General Pediatrics, University hospital DuesseldorfEducation10/2020-today Doctoral student of RTG 2576 “vivid”, Institute for Clinical Biochemistry and Pathobiochemistry, German Diabetes Center, Düsseldorf (Mentor: Dr. Alexandra Chadt, Prof. Dr. Hadi Al-Hasani)10/2018-09/2022 Master of Science Molecular Biomedicine, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf. Master thesis: Analysis of cold-induced browning in white adipose tissue from Tbc1d4-deficient mice (Institute for Clinical Biochemistry and Pathobiochemistry, German Diabetes Center, Düsseldorf)10/2015-09/2018 Bachelor of Science Biology, Heinrich Heine University Duesseldorf, Bachelor thesis: Characterization of interleukin-7 receptor expression on monocytes/macrophages during mycobacterial infections’ (Department of General Pediatrics, University hospital Duesseldorf) Stipends10/2022-10/2023 Vivid RTG 2576 “vivid – in vivo investigations towards the early development of type 2 diabetes”, Leibniz Center for Diabetes Research at Heinrich Heine University DüsseldorfPublications1. de Wendt C, Espelage L, Eickelschulte S, Springer C, Toska L, Scheel A, Bedou AD, Benninghoff T, Cames S, Stermann T, Chadt A, Al-Hasani H. Contraction-Mediated Glucose Transport in Skeletal Muscle Is Regulated by a Framework of AMPK, TBC1D1/4, and Rac1. Diabetes. 2021 Dec;70(12):2796-2809.2. Scheel AK; Espelage L; Chadt A. Many Ways to Rome: Exercise, Cold Exposure and Diet—Do They All Affect BAT Activation and WAT Browning in the Same Manner? Int. J. Mol. Sci. 2022, 23, 4759.