Education

2016 – 2020  

Institute of Science and Technology Austria

Doctor of Philosophy

Advisor: Prof Leonid Sazanov FRS

2012 – 2016

Gonville and Caius College, University of Cambridge

Bachelor of Arts and Master in Science

Scholarships and Awards

Outstanding PhD Thesis Award: IST Austria 2021

Junior Research Fellowship: Christ’s College, Cambridge 2021

EMBO Postdoctoral Fellowship: 2021-2023

James Arthur Ramsay Prize for Chemistry and Biology: Gonville and Caius College 2014

Gold Medal at International Biology Olympiad: Singapore 2012

 Professional experience

October 2020 – July 2022

EMBO postdoctoral fellowship on the diversity of AMPA receptors

Dr Ingo Greger Group, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge, UK

September 2016 – September 2020

PhD studies on the structure of mitochondrial proton pumping enzymes by cryo-EM

Prof Leonid Sazanov Group, Institute of Science and Technology Austria

October 2015 – April 2016

Master thesis studies on the catalytic mechanism of F1-ATPase (X-ray crystallography)

Prof John Walker Group, MRC Mitochondrial Biology Unit, Cambridge, UK

Drug discovery department, Acies Bio d.o.o., Ljubljana, Slovenia

Two summer internships on pre-clinical drug development and marketing approval process

July 2015 – August 2015 & July 2016 – August 2016

Dr Markus Ralser Group, Department of Biochemistry, University of Cambridge

Bachelor thesis studies on the prebiotic non-enzymatic Krebs cycle precursor

January 2015 – April 2015

July 2014 – August 2014

Summer Research Studentship on the purification and characterisation of ovine complex I

Prof Leonid Sazanov Group, MRC Mitochondrial Biology Unit, Cambridge