Her research interests include the role of upper viral respiratory tract infections in early life and the subsequent predisposition to asthma and atopy. She is untertaking allergy diagnostics & biomarker discovery studies for a large number of multicenter epidemiological studies at the national and European level. Her research group is supported by the German Research Council (DFG), the German Lung Center (DZL), the Rhön Klinikum, and industry. She has received numerous awards including an ESPID Fellowship, a long term ERS Research Fellowship, the ESCMID Excellence Training Award, the research prize of the Hellenic Society of Microbiology and the research prize of the Hellenic Society of Allergy and Clinical Immunology.