I am currently an Independent Research Fellow at the European Southern Observatory in Garching (near Munich). Previously, I was a Minerva Junior group leader at the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics, where I also completed my PhD between 2017 and 2020. My research mainly focuses on exploiting molecular transitions at millimeter and submillemeter wavelengths and dust thermal emission to investigate the dense phases of the interstellar medium, where stars are forming or will form in the future.