Yvonne Genzel has a PhD in Biocatalysis from the University of the Mediterranean (Marseille, France) and a post-doctorate from the Otto-von-Guericke University (Magdeburg, Germany) where she also works as a professor.
She has been a senior scientist in the Bioprocess Engineering group at the Max Planck Institute for Dynamics of Complex Technical Systems since 2001, where she leads the upstream processing team focusing on virus production with mammalian cells.