Jennifer Herrmann currently holds a position as senior scientist at the Helmholtz Institute for Pharmaceutical Research Saarland (HIPS). Her main research interests are the characterization of newly isolated anti-infective natural products and their further development, including mode-of-action and mode-of-resistance studies with novel antibiotics and their pharmacological characterization.

Jennifer studied chemistry at the Technical University Kaiserslautern and received her diploma in 2007. She worked as a visiting scholar at Drug Discovery Ltd. in Glasgow before she moved to Saarland University where she received her PhD in Pharmaceutical Biotechnology. She continued with post-doctoral research at HIPS and worked as a visiting scientist at the Luxembourg Centre for Systems Biomedicine on zebrafish assays for drug screening.