Natalia Tschowri studied Biology at the Freie Universität Berlin, where she also obtained her PhD with a thesis on blue light signalling in the control of biofilm formation in Escherichia coli in the lab of Prof. Regine Hengge. In September 2012, she joined Prof. Mark Buttner’s lab at the John Innes Centre in Norwich, UK, as a PostDoc. Funded by the EMBO longterm fellowship, she began to work on c-di-GMP signalling in Streptomyces. Back in Berlin, she continued with her studies on the role of cyclic di-nucleotides in Streptomyces developmental biology as an Emmy Noether-Programme-funded group leader at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. Since October 2020, she is a professor for cellular microbiology at the Leibniz University Hannover.