Eva holds a PhD in Microbiology from the Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg. Before joining QIAGEN, Eva worked as a postdoctoral fellow at Tufts University School of Medicine in Boston, MA, USA. Eva is currently an Associate Director at QIAGEN, where her team is responsible for sample technology product development, including solutions for manual and automated extraction from a wide range of sample materials including FFPE tissue samples. Since joining the QIAGEN R&D team in Hilden in 2012, Eva’s work also included sample preparation for microbiome and liquid biopsy applications.