Franziska studied Chemistry at the University of Frankfurt where she obtained her PhD investigating the binding of an allosteric small molecule anti-cancer drug to its target receptor domain using NMR spectroscopy. After completing her PhD, Franziska joined SIGNALS – a provider of a digital data repository for scientific data – as a Marketing & Communications Manager. Before moving to the United States, she spent a brief moment in the finance world where she worked as Business Operations & Marketing Coordinator.
Franziska currently lives with her family in the rocket city Huntsville in northern Alabama. She enjoys tennis and hiking.