Madeleine received her Mag­is­ter degree (Mas­ter equiv­a­lent) in sport sci­ences and lin­guis­tics from the Uni­ver­si­ty of Leipzig. Dur­ing her PhD at the Max Planck Insti­tute of Cog­ni­tive and Brain Sci­ences, Leipzig, she con­duct­ed lon­gi­tu­di­nal train­ing stud­ies with the aim of inves­ti­gat­ing behav­ioral (motor and cog­ni­tive) as well as neu­ronal (struc­tur­al & func­tion­al) changes fol­low­ing exergam­ing in elder­ly adults.

In 2021, Madeleine joined the O’BRAIN lab as sci­en­tif­ic staff in order to eval­u­ate the med­ical ben­e­fits of a dig­i­tal obe­si­ty treat­ment program.