Anne Grünewald, PhD, currently holds a bridging professorship at the University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg Centre for Systems Biomedicine, and the University of Lübeck, Institute of Neurogenetics, in Germany. She is the recipient of an FNR-ATTRACT career development grant. Dr. Grünewald studied biotechnology at the University of Applied Sciences in Jena, Germany, and obtained her Graduate Engineer Diploma in 2005. She then joined the laboratory of Prof. Christine Klein at the University of Lübeck, Germany, for doctoral studies in neuroscience. During her PhD studies, she studied mitochondria -- cell's energy generators -- under the supervision of Prof. Anthony Schapira at the University College London, UK. From 2008 to 2012, she led a junior group at the Institute of Neurogenetics in Lübeck before joining the Wellcome Trust Centre for Mitochondrial Research lead by Prof. D. Turnbull in the UK as a German Research Foundation (DFG) fellow. From 2012 to 2015, she worked as a research associate at Newcastle University. To date, she has published 40 research articles.