Annegret Burkert

Annegret Burkert has been working at the SMC since 2019 as editor for medicine and life sciences. After studying biology at RWTH Aachen, she earned her doctorate at the Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research in Cologne in the field of plant–microbe interactions/plant genetics, followed by several years as a postdoc in the same research area. In 2017, she moved into science communication, where she was responsible for press and public relations at the Max Planck Institutes for Biology of Ageing and for Metabolism Research for one and a half years.