Kristina Wiltner studied chemical engineering, specialising in biochemistry, at the Dresden University of Applied Sciences. After her diploma thesis on Biofunctionalisation and Micro-Pattering of Multi-well Plates in 2006 she came to Berlin to work in Residue Analysis at the Julius Kühn Institute. 

Since 2008 she is working as a laboratory engineer at HTW Berlin - University of Applied Sciences in the Life Science Engineering course in diverse fields such as Chemistry, Instrumental Analytics, Molecular Biotechnology and Cell Culture.

Further, Kristina has been accompanying the laboratory internships for the Life Science Management Programme as Laboratory Engineer for several years and is a lecturer since 2021 for the lab course Life Science Engineering.