Kathrin graduated from the Veterinary School in Hannover/Germany in 2001 and joined the GI Lab the same year. In 2004 she completed her German doctorate thesis at the GI Lab and she has been working on her PhD since then.

Her main focus is the development of new noninvasive diagnostic tests in cats with chronic GI disease. She recently developed and analytically validated an immunoassay for the detection of alpha1-proteinase inhibitor in feces of cats, which is currently the only available non-invasive method for the detection of gastrointestinal protein loss in cats.