1998 - 2002 Undergraduate studies of Medicine at the University of Cologne and the University of Hamburg  

2002 - 2005 University of Hamburg, Diploma programme Bioinformatics (Majors in Cheminformatics)  

2005 - 2011 Postgraduate studies at the Center For Bioinformatics, University of Hamburg. Development of computer based methods for the automatic layout generation of two-dimensional molecular structure representations  

2011 - 2014 Postdoctoral position at the University of Hamburg. Development of the ChemBioNavigator in the context of the Open PHACTS project.  

Since 2015 Scientific staff member at the Thünen Institute of Forest Genetics with focus on bioinformatics an database development

Publications:

Schomburg, K., Stierand, K., Rarey, M. (2013). Informative Molekulare Visualisierung: Innovative grafische Darstellungen von Molekülmodellen veranschaulichen komplexe Zusammenhänge. BIOspektrum, 2: 146-148.  

Stierand, K., Harder, T., Marek, T., Hilbig, M., Lemmen, C., Rarey, M. (2012). The internet as scientific knowledge base: Navigating the chem-bio space. Molecular Informatics:543-546.

Stierand, K., Rarey, M. (2011). Consistent two-dimensional visualization of protein-ligand complex series. Journal of Cheminformatics, 3(21):Online-Publication.  

Stierand, K., Rarey, M. (2011). Flat and Easy: 2D Depiction of Protein-Ligand Complexes. Molecular Informatics, 30(1):12-19.  

Schomburg, K., Ehrlich, H.-C., Stierand, K., Rarey, M. (2010). From Structure Diagrams to Visual Chemical Patterns. Journal of Chemical Information and Modeling, 50(9):1529-1535.  

Stierand, K., Rarey, M. (2010). Drawing the PDB - Protein-Ligand Complexes in two Dimensions. Medicinal Chemistry Letters, 1(9):540-545.  

Stierand, K., Rarey, M. (2007). From Modeling to Medicinal Chemistry: Automatic generation of two-dimensional complex diagrams. ChemMedChem, 2(6):853-860.  

Stierand, K., Maaß, P. C., Rarey, M. (2006). Molecular Complexes at a Glance: Automated Generation of two-dimensional Complex Diagrams. Bioinformatics, 22(14):1710-1716.