🇩🇪➡️🇳🇱 Industrial Secondment: DC8 – Lindelo Mguni – to ChiralVision, Delft, Netherlands!
January 15, 2026 As the new year begins, I find myself back in The Netherlands and this time I’ll be joining ChiralVision B.V., one of our industrial partners specializing in the development of enzyme #immobilization carriers. I’m really looking forward to gaining hands-on insight into the full production process, from raw materials to final carrier formulation, and to better understand how these materials are designed and manufactured at scale. […]
🇦🇹➡️🇩🇪 Industrial Secondment: DC7 – Lilla Gal – to BASF, Germany!
January 13, 2026 I am happy to share that I’ve started my industrial #secondment at BASF in Ludwigshafen as part of my #PhD. Being based at BASF’s Ludwigshafen site — the world’s largest integrated chemical complex — is an amazing opportunity to see how fundamental research is scaled into industrial solutions. I’m really looking forward to learning from industry experts, gaining hands-on […]
🇪🇸➡️🇳🇱 Academic Secondment: DC3 – Corina Šljubura – to Groningen, The Netherlands! (& PhDversary! 🎉)
December 15, 2025 Stepping into the third year of my #PhD feels both surreal and exciting. Working within the BiodeCCodiNNg Doctoral Network has pushed me beyond my comfort zone and helped me grow-scientifically and personally in many ways. Over the past year, I have worked on the development of artificial metalloenzymes for C–C bond formation, […]
🇩🇪➡️🇪🇸🏭 Industrial Secondment: DC6 – Suresh Rohan – to Barcelona, Spain!
November 4, 2025 Hello from sunny Barcelona! ☀️ Not long after returning to Göttingen from my previous #secondment, it was already time to pack my bags again — this time for my industrial secondment at Zymvol Biomodeling. Here, I’m collaborating with Ferran Sancho and Mahdi Hassankalhori to explore the dynamics of my enzymatic system using simulations. I have already begun analyzing the trajectories from […]
🇩🇪➡️🇳🇱 Academic Secondment: DC6 – Suresh Rohan – to Groningen, The Netherlands! (& PhDversary! 🎉)
October 17, 2025 I spent the summer in the beautiful city of Groningen, where I worked for a couple of months on structure-inspired directed evolution of enzymes for carboligation reactions. It was a really fruitful experience working under the supervision of Prof. Gerrit Poelarends and in close collaboration with Veronika Chadimova and Carina Kipp. The […]
🇳🇱➡️🇸🇪🏭 Industrial Secondment: DC1 – Simon Schröder – to AstraZeneca, Gothenburg, Sweden!
October 15, 2025 God morgon, Sverige! My industrial #secondment recently began, and I got to pack up my things for the third time in my project. This time I’ll be staying in Gothenburg until the end of the year to work at AstraZeneca R&D as part of Prof. Martin Hayes’ team. I am excited to […]
🇳🇱➡️🇩🇪 Academic Secondment: DC2 – Carina Kipp – to Göttingen, Germany!
May 2, 2025 Since the start of March, I’ve been at the University of Göttingen for a three-month research stay – my first #secondment! Göttingen’s vibrant scientific community provides an ideal environment to broaden my research capabilities and engage in meaningful collaborations. Together with Suresh Rohan and under the mentorship of Prof. Kai Tittmann, we […]
🇩🇪➡️🇳🇱 Academic Secondment: DC8 – Lindelo Mguni – to Groningen, Netherlands!
February 17, 2025 Moi eem Groningen!! 👋🏾 As I kick off the year, I find myself in Groningen, a vibrant center of architectural design and beauty, for my first #secondment at RUG. Despite the strong winds and the constant need to watch out for bicycles 🚲, it has been an exciting experience meeting new colleagues […]
🇳🇱➡️🇦🇹 Academic Secondment: DC4 – Annika Hein – to Graz, Austria! (& PhDversary! 🎉)
February 10, 2025 A year has passed since I traded the Baltic Sea coast for the North Sea coast and started my time as a PhD student in the city of Groningen in the Netherlands! I joined the #EuropeanUnion doctoral network BiodeCCodiNNg with nine other young researchers. My research is centered around the discovery and engineering […]
🇳🇱🔄🇩🇪 Academic Secondment: DC1 – Simon Schröder – back to Bochum, Germany!
October 15, 2024 Bochum, ich häng’ an dir! My second academic #secondment brings me back for the rest of the year to the Ruhr-University Bochum in Germany, where I previously did both my bachelor’s and master’s studies. Moving back into my old office, I was welcomed by my former colleagues with open arms. It is […]