🇩🇪➡️🇩🇪 Academic Secondment: DC10 – Flora Maria Bindreiter – to Bochum, Germany!
February 23, 2026 Greetings from my very first #secondment! Being at a different lab introduced me to a different set of methods, focusing on the production of #NMOs (nitrogen-hydroxylating #monooxygenases). Carolin Schaefer, who you can see in the picture, introduced me to the respective lab workflows. Thank you so much, Carolin! For the remaining time, we will proceed to testing NMOs […]
🇳🇱➡️🇭🇷 Academic Secondment: DC4 – Annika Hein – to Zagreb, Croatia!
February 12, 2026 Hello from Zagreb! At the beginning of February, I left the snowy Netherlands to dive into the next adventure of my PhD trajectory, my second academic #secondment. For the next two months, my travels led me even further south than last time, when I got the chance to accompany DC5, Nikita Pal, […]
🇦🇹➡️🇳🇱 Academic Secondment: DC5 – Nikita Pal – to Groningen, Netherlands!
February 5, 2026 ✨ New lab, new adventure! ✨ This January, I packed my bags (and my proteins) and moved for my academic #secondment to the University of Groningen from the University of Graz. ✈️🚆 With a background in structural biology, I’m eager to use this opportunity to expand my skill set. I look forward to exploring the field of biocatalysis […]
🇩🇪➡️🇳🇱 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 […]