Academy for Information and Communication of the German Armed Forces, Strausberg, Germany
Captain Valeria Diefenbach joined the German armed forces in 2002. She studied business administration at the Bundeswehr University in Munich and following that she worked as a radio editor based in Koblenz. After her deployment in Afghanistan in 2010, where she was the head of a local radio station for the population of Mazar-e Sharif, she joined the Research and Development Department of the Academy for Information and Communication (AIK) of the German Armed Forces.