In 2010 Claudia completed her German Diploma (Equivalent to MSc) in Microbiology at the University of Rostock, Germany. After her Diploma, Claudia travelled for one and a half years through Australia and South East Asia to gain experiences beyond the academic area before applying for a PhD position at the University of York. Her PhD project in Professor Gideon Grogan’s group at YSBL (York Structural Biology Laboratory, University of York) and within the P4fifty framework is focused on the investigation of Beauveria bassiana’s P450 complement for biocatalysis.