Anja Feldmann studied computer science at Universitaet Paderborn in Germany and received her degree in 1990. After that she continued her studies at Carnegie Mellon University, where she earned an M.Sc. in 1991 and, four years later, a Ph.D. The next four years she did postdoctoral work at AT&T Labs Research, before holding research positions at Saarland University and the Technical University Munich. Since 2006, she has been professor of Internet Network Architectures at Telekom Innovation Laboratories at Technische Universitaet Berlin. In May 2012, she was elected the first woman on the employer side of the Supervisory Board of SAP. Since the beginning of 2018 she is director at the Max Planck Institute for Informatics in Saarbruecken.