Sascha Venturelli graduated in biology as well as in medicine and obtained his Ph.D. at the Faculty of Natural Sciences, University Hohenheim and his M.D. at the Faculty of Medicine, Tuebingen. He underwent postdoctoral training at the renowned Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre Melbourne, Australia. After his return, he established his own research group focusing on epigenetics and nutrition in the context of oncology at the University Hospital Tuebingen. In 2016, Sascha Venturelli was appointed deputy director of the Department Vegetative and Clinical Physiology and academic director in 2017. Since 2019, Sascha Venturelli has been a Professor at the University of Hohenheim and head of the Department of Biochemistry of Nutrition.