Claudia (from Germany) studied Biology at the Goethe University Frankfurt and obtained her PhD in Molecular tumor biology at the Rudolf-Virchow-Centre in Würzburg and the Institute for Molecular Tumorbiology (IMT) in Marburg. She is responsible for the administration of the collaborative research centre (CRC) 1531 “Damage control by the stroma-vascular compartment” and its Integrated Research Training Group (IRTG) as well as the academy of the excellence cluster “Cardio-Pulmonary Institute”.