Katharina studied Biological Sciences at the Universität Konstanz (Germany) and obtained a Bachelor’s Degree in 2015 and a Master’s Degree in 2018. Having received a stipend from the MRC (Medical Research Council (UK)), she then moved on to the MRC Protein Phosphorylation and Ubiquitylation Unit at the University of Dundee (UK) for her PhD with Prof Dr Ian Ganley. Her PhD focused on elucidating the mechanisms of mitophagy (the degradation of mitochondria via autophagy) and targeted organelle degradation. After a short-term post-doc position in the Ganley lab following her PhD, Katharina joined the Stolz lab in 2024 as a post-doctoral researcher to work on ER-phagy and the role and regulation of different receptors in this process.