Daniela Nordzieke studied Biology at the Technical University of Kaiserslautern (2005–2010) and completed her doctorate in 2013 at the Department of General and Molecular Botany at Ruhr University Bochum, where she investigated genetic factors controlling sexual development in filamentous fungi. During her postdoctoral research at the University of Córdoba, Spain (2014–2017), she focused on plant–fungal pathogen interactions. In 2017, she moved to the University of Göttingen as a postdoctoral researcher and later established her own independent research group.
Her research investigates communication processes in fungal development and pathogenicity using molecular genetic approaches, with particular emphasis on signaling molecules, their receptors, and downstream pathways that shape host–pathogen interactions. In addition to national projects, she is involved in the international Research Training Group IRTG 2172: PRoTECT. Her teaching covers genetics, cell biology, and microbiology in Bachelor’s and Master’s programs at the Institute of Microbiology and Genetics, University of Göttingen. In April 2026 she will move to BOKU University (Vienna) to start a Tenure Track Professorship.
