Judith Dönig was born in Frankfurt and studied Biosciences (B.Sc.) and Molecular Biosciences (M.Sc) at the Goethe-University in Frankfurt. In her master thesis she studied the alanine- and formate- metabolism of the acetogenic bacterium Acetobacterium woodii. She has been part of the Müller group as a PhD student since April 2019 and focusses on the characterization of the SUMO-specific isopeptidase SENP5.