Awards
- ICAAC Young Investigator Award, ASM, 2009
External Positions
- Grant review panel member, Member of grant review panel for Deutsche Forschungsgemeinscht (DFG), Deutsche Forschungsgemeinscht (DFG), 2016 - 2016
- Panel member, Wellcome Trust's 'Pathogen Biology and Disease Transmission' Expert Review Group panel member., Welcome trust, 2015 - 2017
Membership of Professional Bodies
- Member of the European Academy of Microbiology, European Academy of Microbiology, 2018
- Contributing member of F1000Prime, F1000 Prime, 2015
- Fellow of the Royal Society of Biology (FRSB), Society of Biology, 2014
- AcademiaNet, Nominated to join AcademiaNet, an Expert Database of Outstanding Female Scientists and Scholars set up by the Robert Bosch Stiftung in cooperation with Spectrum der Wissenschaft, 2012
- SGM member, Society for General Microbiology, 2011
- Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, Higher Education Academy, 2010
- ASM member, American Society for Microbiology, 2003
Editorial Boards
- Journal of Biological Chemistry, Editorial Board Member, 2020 - 2025
- Journal of Bacteriology, Editorial Board Member, 2019 - 2021
- Microbiology - Society of General Microbiology (SGM) Journal, Microbiology Editor
- Editorial Advisory Board (EAB) member for Molecular Microbiology