I obtained my degree in physics in 1989 at the University of Stuttgart and my Ph.D. (Dr. rer. nat.) in 1992 with a work on metal fatigue performed at the Max-Planck-Institute for Metal Research at Stuttgart. I held a research grant at the Institute for Advanced Materials of the JRC in 1994/95 and became assistant professor (C1) at the Institute for Radiation and Nuclear Physics at the University of Bonn in 1995 working on non-destructive materials testing with nuclear methods. I joined the JRC as scientific officer in 1997 working on nuclear fusion materials. With the creation of the Institute for Health and Consumer Protection in 1998 I was in charge of studies on the performance of biomedical materials. In 2000/2001 I studied clinical engineering by correspondence courses at the University of Kaiserslautern and specialised in medical radiation protection technology and medical devices. From 2002 to 2014 I was responsible for the JRC’s cyclotron laboratory and in charge of the management of cyclotron operations for research and for the commercial production of [¹⁸F]-FDG in the framework of an industry collaboration. During this period I investigated the production of medical radionuclides and pioneered methods for the radiolabelling of industrially manufactured nanoparticles as radiotracers in nanotoxicology. After the shutdown of the cyclotron in December 2014 I transferred the radiolabelling of nanoparticles to an external cyclotron and continued with radiotracer studies supporting biological experiments. From 2017 until 2022 I was busy with setting up and managing the medical device expert panels required in the conformity assessment of devices by the Medical Device Regulations 2017/745 and 2017/746. Currently I am looking into accelerating the translation and uptake of innovative cancer treatments in clinical practice, especially of molecular radiotherapies.