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Friederike (Freddie) Ehrhart is an assistant professor in the Department of Bioinformatics – BiGCaT at Maastricht University. Her main research interests are systems biology of rare genetic diseases, especially neuronal and metabolic diseases, which she investigates using neuroscience, genetics, and bioinformatics methods. Friederike studied Biology in Würzburg, Germany, with focus on Biotechnology. After graduating in 2004 she continued with a PhD thesis at Fraunhofer Institute for Biomedical Engineering in cooperation with Saarland University, Germany. After receiving the PhD title in 2009 she continued working as a postdoc researcher, later as group lead and head of laboratory at Fraunhofer before moving to Maastricht University, Department of Bioinformatics, in 2015. In 2016 she started a collaboration with the Rett Expertise Centre, and works since 2019 on 22q11.2 deletion syndrome with Therese van Amelsvoort. Since March 2019 she holds a tenured position as assistant professor.