Curriculum Vitae
Education
2018 - 2022
Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research | PhD
Doctoral work in the laboratory of Dr Nicolas Thomä focusing on the molecular glue degrader modality. Project funded by an ESR Marie Curie-SkÅ‚odowska fellowship (UbiCODE).
2021 - 2022
Novartis | Research Secondment
Internship in high-throughput screening (focused on scaling up a TR-FRET assay for degrader discovery I developed) supervised by Ulrich Hassiepen and Martin Renatus
2013 - 2018
The University of Edinburgh | Integrated Masters Degree
Interdisciplinary studies in Biological and Medicinal Chemistry. Master thesis work performed in the laboratory of Prof. Mark Bradley.
2016 - 2017
ETH Zürich | Year-Abroad Scholarship
Project with Prof. Nenad Ban centred around telomerase. Funded by the Swiss-European Mobility Programme and Heyning-Roelli Stiftung.
2015
Université Joseph Fourier | Summer School
Bachelor Summer Program in Large Scale Facilities fully funded by a scholarship from ILL Grenoble.
Employment
2023 - present
Harvard Medical School (Dana-Farber Cancer Institute) | Postdoctoral Researcher
2023 - present
Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard | Affiliate Researcher
2023
Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research | Bridging Postdoctoral Researcher
2017
University of Dundee | Research Intern
Computational biology project under Prof. Alessio Ciulli focusing on PROTAC linkers. Funded by the James Black Prize award scheme.
2015
Institut Laue Langevin | Summer Intern
Short project involving SANS and neutron protein crystallography experiments.
Selected Honors
& Awards
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Science/AAS and SciLifeLab Prize for Young Scientists Grand Prize Winner (2023)
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EFMC-YSN PhD Prize awarded by European Federation for Medicinal Chemistry (2023)
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Ed Fischer PhD Prize (2023)
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Listed as Forbes 30 Under 30 Europe in the Science&Healthcare category (2023)
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Invited to participate in the Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting in Physiology and Medicine (2023)
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Awardee of the competitive antelope program for female scientists (2022)
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Invited to lead a webinar on targeted protein degradation as an expert consultant (Noble Securities, Poland) (2022)
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Marie Curie-SkÅ‚odowska Early-Stage Researcher PhD Fellowship (2018 – 2021)
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Masters of Chemistry Prize for top-of-the-class graduate at the University of Edinburgh (2018)
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James Black Prize (2017)
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Swiss-European Mobility Programme awardee (2016 – 2017)
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Heyning-Roelli Stiftung scholarship (2016 – 2017)
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Oxford University Press Achievement in Chemistry Prize (2016)
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Large Scale Facilities Summer Scholarship (2015)