🇳🇱➡️🇦🇹 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 […]
🎓➡️🏭 First BiodeCCodiNNg Secondment: DC5 – Nikita Pal – to Innophore!

February 26, 2024 Hello again! As part of my PhD program at BiodeCCodiNNg, I just started my Industrial Secondment at Innophore on the 1st of February ’24. Innophore is based in Graz (Austria) and San Francisco (USA), and they work on developing protein and drug discovery platforms guided by AI. 🤖🧠 I am looking forward […]
