Steffi recently completed her PhD in Biochemistry at the University of Kent at Canterbury, and now works for Creative Lynx - a marketing and advertising company which works with a number of life sciences, healthcare and pharma companies.
Her PhD thesis involved surveying the expression of EGF receptors and ligands in healthy and cancerous canine tissues and also determining the role of the HER2 receptor canine mammary cancer.
Prior to her PhD, Steffi completed her BSc in Forensic Biology in 2008, where she carried out a research project exploring NRG3 expression in rat tissues.
Steffi has been heavily involved with science communication, both through outreach activities to schools and the general public, and also through official presentations to pharmaceutical companies and academia. Steffi was a Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics Networking (STEMNet) Ambassador to the South-East of England from 2008 to 2011.
