Florian started his studies in Molecular and Applied Biotechnology at the RWTH Aachen University in 2011. He did his bachelor thesis at the Institute for Applied Microbiology developing a reporter for bacterial quorum sensing. He then studied the consecutive master course and did his master thesis at the Institute of Molecular Biotechnology on the production of rabies antigens and antibodies. For the practical part he worked at the Fraunhofer Institute for Molecular Biology and Ecology in Aachen and the Biopharming Research Unit at the University of Cape Town. Florian then stayed at the Institute for Molecular Biotechnology in Aachen as a research assistant for 6 months before he joined the Institute of Innate Immunity as part of the Bonn & Melbourne Research and Graduate School Immunosciences in 2018.
