Bianka Schulz studied veterinary medicine at the Ludwig-Maximilian-University in Munich, Germany, followed by a doctoral thesis. From 2001 to 2003 she completed her residency in “small animal internal medicine” at the Clinic of Small Animal Internal Medicine in Munich, Germany, and at the Small Animal Veterinary Teaching Hospital of the University of Georgia in Athens, USA. Since 2004 she has a faculty position at the Clinic of Small Animal Internal Medicine in Munich. She is a diplomate of the European College of Veterinary Internal Medicine and completed a habilitation thesis in small animal internal medicine. Her scientific focus is feline and canine respiratory medicine.