🇩🇪➡️🇳🇱 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 […]
🇦🇹➡️🇩🇪 Academic Secondment: DC7 – Lilla Gal – to University of Göttingen, Germany
May 31, 2024 The rubber has hit the road! ✨ At the beginning of May, I moved from Karl-Franzens-University Graz to Georg August University of Göttingen, where I will continue my research for the next four months as part of my first #secondment. Alongside Rohan Suresh (DC6) and under the guidance of Prof. Kai Tittmann, […]
🇪🇸➡️🇬🇧 Industrial Secondment: DC3 – Corina Šljubura – to Prozomix, UK!
April 26, 2024 With the arrival of April, I moved from Barcelona’s sunny embrace to the brisk and often drizzly climes of Newcastle, England. The old English local wisdom “Ne’er cast a clout till May be out” (meaning one shouldn’t shed their winter clothes before June arrives) has become a regular reminder in my day-to-day […]
🇭🇷➡️🇳🇱 Academic Secondment: DC9 – Lan Julij Zadravec – to Groningen, The Netherlands!
March 24, 2024 At the start of March, I traveled from my home university University of Zagreb Faculty of Chemical Engineering and Technology to #Groningen in the Netherlands, where I began my three-month-long academic secondment. I joined the team of Dr. Sandy Schmidt and my DC colleagues Carina Kipp and Annika Hein at the University […]
🇳🇱➡️🇦🇹 Academic Secondment: DC1 – Simon Schröder – to Graz, Austria!
March 12, 2024 Mahlzeit, Graz! I recently jumped on a train that took me from my home university in Groningen all the way to the Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz in Austria, where I will stay for the next three months as part of my first secondment. Still adapting to the drastic change in topology compared to the […]