Tina earned her PhD at The University of Maryland, completed her postdoctoral work at The Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics in Germany, headed the Genomics Core Facility at Institute of Molecular Biology Mainz, and was the team leader of R&D at CeGaT GmbH. In 2018 she joined Twist Bioscience as Field Application Scientist. Since 2020 she has been involved in the development of long-read applications. Currently she is the Director of Applications & Business Development.