Eva Haenssler is an Associate Director responsible for sample technology product development, including solutions for manual and automated extraction from a wide range of sample materials. Since joining the QIAGEN R&D team in Hilden in 2012, her work has focused on sample preparation for microbiome and liquid biopsy applications. Before joining QIAGEN, Eva worked on host-pathogen interactions as a postdoctoral fellow at Tufts University School of Medicine in Boston, MA, USA. She holds a Ph.D. in microbiology from the Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg in Germany.