Theresa grew up in Germany and moved to the Netherlands when she was 19 years old. After studying Biomedical Sciences, she received her PhD title at the University of Amsterdam where she specialised  Immunology and protein chemistry.

Subsequently, she switched to the pharmaceutical industry, in the function as CMO project coordinator at Sanquin. After that Theresa has been involved in various international projects in various positions ranging from project management, process validation and CMC file review. In 2015 is Theresa started the process monitoring program within Sanquin and is at the same time they have been involved in solving inspection observations.