Maja Grote obtained her Bacherlor's degree in Biology at the Georg-August University Göttingen in 2020. After she joined the Master’s program Molecular Life Science at the University of Lübeck in the same year, she changed to Infection Biology in 2021, which she finished in March 2024 on the sex-specific regulation of cytokine production by B cells in response to stimulation with Mycobacterium tuberculosis antigens In Vitro. Since June 2024 she is a member of the working group of Prof. Dr. med. vet. Jennifer Hundt as PhD-candidate of the RTG2633 to investigate the impact of shift work on the development and progression of systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE).