Daniel received his PhD in 2008 with work on ion channel signaling in sensory neurons in the laboratory of Stephan Frings at the University of Heidelberg. As a postdoc, he focused on the molecular characterization of cancer and hematopoietic stem cells with Andreas Trumpp at the DKFZ and Jeroen Krijgsveld at EMBL. Daniel joined The EMBO Journal in 2015 and is responsible for work related to stem cells, ageing, metabolism, molecular biology of disease and cancer, among other subject categories.