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Antong is currently finishing his dual studies – Master of Science – in Economic and Organizational Sciences. As part of this program, he is working in parallel for Allianz SE in Munich. Based on this background, Antong is able to offer to our organization professional expertise in economics and is therefore our core finances executive since May 2019. ...
Dr. Ionut Dumitru received his PhD in neurobiology from Heidelberg University. His PhD work, investigating adult hippocampal neurogenesis, was preformed in the laboratory of Professor Hannah Monyer at the German Cancer Research Centre. Currently, Dr. Dumitru as a postdoctoral fellow researching neural stem cells and brain regeneration in the laboratory of Professor Jonas Frisén at the Karolinska Institute. During high school, Dr. Dumitru participated in several national and international chemistry Olympiads. His participation in these contests not only lead him...
Dr. Ina Simeonova finished her PhD at the University of Heidelberg in 2016. During her academic career she focused first on basic mechanisms of neurogenesis and thereafter on the differentiation of human induced pluripotent stem cells into neural lines for transplantation into the damaged spinal cord of rodent animal models of spinal cord injury. Meanwhile she has left academia for good and is working as a Project Manager / IT Consultant in software development. Together with Dr. Beatrice Sandner and...
After participating in two of our competitions, Friedrich represented Germany at the IBB 2016 in Copenhagen, Denmark. Following this experience, he joined our team and later our executive board. Friedrich is currently studying medicine at the University of Göttingen and recently started his doctoral thesis. Within DNO Friedrich first undertook the position of Finance Manager and is now pursuing more structural and legal aspects as Brand and Policy Executive. This includes the establishment of a legally solid organizational structure and...
Since 2017 Angela is supporting DNO within a range of Project Managements activities. Angela is supporting recruitment of new members, monitoring overall work progress via a detailed Gantt-Chart using the project management tool Redmine, organizing regular and focused team meetings and workshops and keeping all executive board members updated about the status quo of the team. ...
Dr. Beatrice Sander was a biologist in the laboratory of neuroregeneration at the Spinal Cord Injury at the Heidelberg University Hospital until 2017, where she did research on the regenerative capacity of adult neural stem cells after spinal cord injury. She is now working in clinical monitoring at the University of Heidelberg. Dr. Sander has been part of DNO e.V. since it’s establishment in 2011 by Dr. Julianne McCall (former “German Brain Bee”). Together with Dr. Ina Simeonova and few...
Dr. Nathalie Tisch successfully defended her PhD in 2019 at the University of Heidelberg and is currently working at the UMN in Mannheim. While she mainly focused on the subject of Neuroscience during her master studies, she has entered into a more interdisciplinary field for her PhD work. Nathalie studied neurovascular interactions. Primarily, she tried to understand how blood vessels, which communicate with neurons at the neurovascular interface, fuel our brain with oxygen and energy as well as promote neuronal...
Florian’s academic journey started with informatics at the University of Munich, moved to Physics, also at the University of Munich, and ended up with Psychology at the University of Würzburg. Within this context, Florian spends a considerable amount of his time investigating the interplay between technology and society. We spend an enormous amount of our time with modern technology, giving a lot of power to the ones that design these devices and shape our usage. Since the early stages of...
Catarina has finished her PhD in 2018 at the University of Heidelberg. During her PhD and first Post Doc in Heidelberg and at the central institute of mental health in Mannheim, she worked on neurobilogical mechanisms of addiction. In particular, she investigated different brain activities which correlate to specific addiction behaviours, such as craving and relapse, in animal models of addiction. Currently Catarina is a Project and Communication Manager at the European Vaccine Initiative in Heidelberg, which focuses on coordinating...