Maggie is Associate Professor of Neurology at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University of Munich. She trained as a neurologist at the LMU Munich, and works at the Friedrich-Baur-Institute, the neuromuscular department of the LMU, in leading position. She graduated with a masters degree in management of social and health institutions, and has an additional qualification in Nutritional Medicine (DAEM/DGEM). Her main research interests are neuromuscular diseases, mainly muscular dystrophies (e.g. Duchenne and LGMD), myofibrillar myopathies, inflammatory myopathies, spinal muscular atrophy, CMT neuropathies and clinical trials in neuromuscular patients. She is coordinator of the German Muscular Dystrophy Network (MD-NET), funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) since 2003, co-coordinator of the German Charcot-Marie-Tooth Neuropathy Network (CMT-NET), funded by the BMBF since 2016, and member of TREAT-NMD, a European Network of Excellence in the 6th EU frame program for translational research in neuromuscular diseases. Since 1997, she is member of the Scientific Ad Board of the German Muscular Dystrophy Association (DGM) and ad hoc reviewer for several peer-reviewed journals. She is responsible for the German patient registries, the DMD, SMA, CMT, FSHD, PAM and IBM patient registries, and together with Volker Straub for the international FKRP registry.