Judith Boldt

Judith studied bioinformatics and received her bachelor’s degree from TU München and LMU. She then moved to Paris for the master’s program Interdisciplinary Approaches to Life Science at L’Université Paris-Descartes, where she combined laboratory experiments with computational analyses. During her PhD at Collège de France in Paris and UT Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas, Texas, she focused on gene coevolution and protein thermal stability. For her first postdoc, Judith returned to Germany to work at the Leibniz Institute DSMZ in Braunschweig, where the projects on bacterial natural products brought her back to her roots in bioinformatics. She is now a postdoctoral researcher at the Leibniz-HKI working on the discovery of natural products encoded in ancient DNA.