Fabian Grein studied biology at the University of Bonn and gained his PhD on studies on the DsrMKJOP transmembrane complex in the purple sulfur bacterium Allochromatium vinosum in 2010. Following his PhD studies, he became a PostDoctoral fellow at the Institute for Technology, Chemistry and Biology (ITQB), New University of Lisbon, Portugal, working on sulfur metabolism in Desulfovibrio vulgaris. He then returned to Germany and joined the Institute of Medical Microbiology, Immunology and Parasitology, University Hospital Bonn, working on the DFG funded project “Antibiotics with pleiotrophic activities: Daptomycin and amphiphilic glycopeptides”. In 2015, he became group leader of the DZIF Junior Research Group “Anti-staphylococcal Targets” at the inter-faculty Institute for Pharmaceutical Microbiology, University Hospital Bonn, University of Bonn.