Dr. Louisa Bolm is currently pursuing her professorial qualification at Harvard after studying medicine at the University of Lubeck and completing her doctorate in molecular biological prognostic factors in pancreatic cancer. In 2018, she received the Walter Brendel Award from the German Society for General and Visceral Surgery for her postdoctoral work. She publishes in medical journals and presents her research projects at national and international surgical and oncological congresses.
In 2014, she conducted archival research for Ahrensburg Castle near Hamburg. Her focus was the Schimmelmann family’s trading empire and northern European network, and she also designed special tours. In January 2017, at the Info-Cafe Berlin-Paris of the Franco-German Youth Office in Berlin, she curated the exhibition “Between Spy Scandal, Anarchists and Surgery on the Billiard Table” about the French surgeon Paul Reclus.