Ulrike studied food chemistry at the Technical University in Berlin (Germany). She earned her doctor of natural sciences degree in biology with specialization in biochemistry from the Humboldt University of Berlin (Germany) in 2014. Ulrike was working as team and research project leader (PI) in Germany at a private research institute from 2008 to 2016 in the fields of biotechnology and biomedicine, receiving the Biogas Innovation Award in 2012. After moving to Sweden, she became postdoc fellow in 2017 and was researcher from 2018 to 2023 at the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) where her work focused on biopolymers for medical applications. In 2019, she became shareholder of Cirqle Biomedical and founded USCB Consulting in 2021. Since 2023, Ulrike continues her research as Principal Investigator at the Stockholm University. Read more here.

Ulrike is KEMIKUMs Head of technical operations since 2025. Support her group provides includes:

• Laboratory safety
• Security
• IT
• Facility maintenance and renovations
• Janitorial service

Member of the European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology, Swedish Association of Professional Scientists, Swedish Chemical Society, International Mycological Association and the Laboratory Safety Network of the Stockholm University.

Board and management group member of the department.