Roswitha qualified as a veterinarian from the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Germany, in 1997. She did a doctoral thesis in Small Animal Oncology, did an Internship at the Clinic for Small Animal Medicine in Munich followed by a residency in Internal Medicine . During her residency, she spent one year at the Purdue Veterinary Teaching hospital in Purdue, USA. She holds a European Diploma in Veterinary Internal Medicine and is Board Member of the European Society of Small Animal Nephrology and Urology. She has a faculty position at the LMU Munich and her research focus is the feline lower urinary tract, bacterial UTI and feline leptospirosis. In 2016, she left Munich to work at the Universidad Austral de Chile in Valdivia for six months and initiated a joint research project with the colleagues in Chile on feline leptospirosis. She lives in Munich with her husband and their British Shorthair cat Emely.

Memberships

European Society of Veterinary Internal Medicine
Board member of the European Society of Veterinary Nephrology and Urology
German Veterinary Association
International Society of Feline Medicine