Before Stefanie Kress started her studies in the field of Biomedical Engineering in Rostock in 2011, she had worked as a surgery nurse. From 2011 to 2017 Mrs. Kress completed her bachelor as well as her master degree at the University of Rostock successfully. In the course of her master thesis Mrs. Kress analyzed a vertebral body replacement for the cervical spine under standardized setups using the finite-element-method. During her work as a student assistant at the Chair for Structural Mechanics Mrs. Kress performed numerical studies regarding fatigue crack growth.