Melanie graduated in veterinary medicine at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University in Munich. Afterwards, she worked as an assistant veterinarian in gastroenterology and internal medicine at the Clinic for Internal Medicine of Small Animals at LMU Munich and in the emergency service of a private veterinary hospital. She subsequently started a small animal internal medicine residency at the Clinic for Small Animal Internal Medicine at LMU Munich. Since 2022, she worked at the Small Animal Hospital of the University of Zurich as an Internal Medicine Specialist, focusing on gastroenterology. Her research interests include studies on the judicious use of antibiotics in gastroenterological diseases in dogs and cats and the alternative methods to modulate the intestinal microbiota positively. In September 2023 she started to work as an Internal Medicine Specialist in a privately owned clinic near Zurich, Switzerland.