Baake earned a diploma in biology in 1985 from the
University of Bonn, and completed her Ph.D. there in theoretical biology in 1989. Her dissertation,
Ein Differentialgleichungsmodell zur Beschreibung der Fluoreszenzinduktion (OIDP-Kinetik) der Photosynthese, was supervised by . She earned a
habilitation at
LMU Munich in 1999. In 2007, she was a visiting researcher on a Kloosterman Chair at
Leiden University and she held faculty positions at several other universities before joining Bielefeld University. In 2004, she was named an associate professor of biomathematics and theoretical bioinformatics at the Faculty of Engineering, and since 2012, she has been a full professor there, jointly affiliated with the Faculty of Mathematics. Baake was an invited speaker at the 2010
International Congress of Mathematicians in
Hyderabad, India. In 2011, she declined an offer of a W3 professorship in Biomathematics at the Department of Mathematics at the
University of Erlangen-Nuremberg. Her research focuses on the mathematical foundations of population genetics and mathematical immunobiology, where she further develops the necessary
stochastic methods and uses them to investigate specific questions in
evolutionary theory. == Selected publications ==