About me
Science, history and medicine have always drawn me in — as a perspective to understand the world and what it means to be human. After studying biology at University College London, I began telling stories at the intersection of science, society, and human experience—often over long periods of research and filming.
My projects have taken me across continents: from trekking through Central Africa in search of clues to the origin of HIV, to filming in Liberia during the height of the Ebola outbreak, and documenting the lives of an isolated people in the Peruvian Amazon. During the peak of the COVID-19 pandemic, I was embedded in an intensive care ward at Berlin’s Charité clinic. Following the Russian invasion of Ukraine, I spent a year accompanying an anaesthesiologist and mother of three as she grappled with the realities of war. Most recently, I completed a four-part series on organ transplantation and filmed a documentary in a hospital in war-torn Sudan.
I work with a minimalistic, direct-cinema approach, often shooting on my own to be close to my characters and capture events as they unfold. My films have been broadcast by BBC, PBS, Al Jazeera, ARD, ZDF, Arte, and others, and have received multiple awards including three Grimme Awards, the German Television Award, the Hanns-Joachim-Friedrichs Award, and a Golden Nymph in Monte Carlo.
I am also the host of CloseUp, a podcast featuring in-depth conversations with guests from science, journalism, medicine, politics, and history.
