Ariane completed her veterinary medicine degree at the University of Munich and after a spell in small animal practice returned to university to achieve her doctorate. Following an Internship at the Animal Health Trust in Newmarket, England, she moved to Scotland to take up the Senior Clinical Scholarship in Veterinary Dermatology at the Royal (Dick) School of Veterinary Studies in Edinburgh. During the first year of her residency she achieved her Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons (RCVS) dermatology certificate in 2002. During the course of her career Ariane has had many papers published and in 2005 she passed her European Diploma in Veterinary Dermatology. She is the past chief examiner of the old UK certificate system, is a current examiner for the modular certificate, is a past president of BVDSG and current scientific program co-ordinator, ECVD secretary and on the DGVD congress oragnisation team. After many years in the UK, Ariane returned to her native Germany in 2018 and has started a dermatology only referral practice, Hund Katze Haut, near Bonn. She covers all aspects of dermatology and has a particular interest in allergic skin disease and otitis.