Daniela Bakula graduated in Biology from the University of Tübingen, Germany. She obtained her PhD with the highest honors from the University of Tübingen within the International Max-Planck Research School “From Molecules to Organisms“. Her PhD work focused on molecular mechanisms regulating autophagy and was awarded with highly competitive dissertation prizes. Daniela Bakula did her postdoc in the lab of Morten Scheibye-Knudsen at the Center for Healthy Aging, University of Copenhagen before transitioning into an assistant professorship. Her work focuses on understanding how genomic instability may impact aging. Based on her work she received a DFG postdoctoral fellowship as well as a Lundbeck foundation postdoctoral fellowship and several other grants to fund her research. She is an associate editor with Frontiers in Aging and is co-organizing ARDD since 2020.