Having studied food chemistry at the TUM, Prof. Scherf obtained her PhD degree from the TUM. She worked at the Leibniz Institute for Food Systems Biology at the TUM (LSB) and led the research group Functional Biopolymer Chemistry. In 2019 she became a professor at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) where she led the Department of Bioactive and Functional Food Chemistry. Since 2024 she leads the research group Food Biopolymer Chemistry at the LSB and also holds the Professorship of Food Biopolymer Systems at the TUM.