Dr. Büttner is Associate Professor at Stockholm University. She studied biochemistry at the University of Tübingen, Germany, and received her PhD in molecular biology from the University of Graz, Austria, where she studied cell death pathways with Dr. Frank Madeo. Her research focuses on intracellular communication during cellular aging. The Büttner lab uses simple model systems to understand how organelle connectivity contributes to the maintenance of proteostasis and cellular fitness upon stress and during aging. Her research on cellular aging was awarded with the Austrian Josef Krainer-Würdigungspreis and the Hagberg Prize from the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.