🎉 PhDversary! Annual update – DC1 – Simon Schröder
July 1, 2026 It really doesn’t feel like three years have passed since starting my #PhDjourney at the University of Groningen as part of #BiodeCCodiNNg. Sometimes it feels much longer, sometimes it feels much shorter than that. I’ve grown a lot personally and professionally during that time and feel excited to start into this fourth […]
🎉 PhDversary! Annual update – DC7 – Lilla Gal
June 13, 2026 Special congratulations to Lilla Gal on her third PhD-versary! 🎉 A wonderful milestone to celebrate alongside the closing of such a memorable chapter for the BiodeCCodiNNg Doctoral Network. Attending conferences always reminds me why I chose this path and gives me fresh motivation for what comes next.  Over the past three days, I had the […]
🎉 PhDversary! Annual update – DC10 – Flora Maria Bindreiter
January 22, 2026 My second #PhD year taught me resilience and an analytical mindset that I expect to be useful in future research projects:  If it first looks to me like an experiment didn’t work, a second look might show that it did work — the result is just different from what I expected. I am more than grateful for […]
🇪🇸➡️🇳🇱 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, […]
🎉 PhDversary! Annual update – DC4 – Annika Hein
December 9, 2025 Two years ago, I moved from the Baltic Sea to the North Sea to begin my #PhD journey here at the University of Groningen. Now, I have completed the first half of my PhD, and I am looking forward to the second half! The past year of my journey has been eventful, […]
🎉 PhDversary! Annual update – DC9 – Lan Julij Zadravec
October 27, 2025 I have completed my second year of my #PhD at the University of Zagreb Faculty of Chemical Engineering and Technology and it has been an incredibly interesting and productive year. Over the course of this past year, I was able to promote biocatalysis at the University of Zagreb’s MUZZA festival, as well […]
🇩🇪➡️🇳🇱 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 […]
🎉 PhDversary! Annual update – DC5 – Nikita Pal
September 21, 2025 2 years since I began my PhD journey at the University of Graz, and it’s been a year of steady growth, collaboration, and lessons. Over this year, I had the joy to supervise a bachelor’s student as well as work alongside DC4 Annika Hein during her secondment in Graz. I also delivered […]
🎉 PhDversary! Annual update – DC2 – Carina Kipp
August 28, 2025 This past year has been full of learning and growth — from workshops in Gothenburg and Zagreb on industrial processes and reaction modeling, to my first secondment in Göttingen where Suresh Rohan and I successfully crystallized my enzyme variant. I’m grateful for the opportunities that #BiodeCCodiNNg continues to bring and excited to […]
🎉 Two Years into the PhD Journey! Annual update – DC8 – Lindelo Mguni
August 5, 2025 Today marks two years since I began my PhD journey — and what a journey it’s been so far! In these past 24 months, I’ve had the opportunity to: 🔹 Attend 3 academic conferences, presenting posters showcasing my research (and one speed talk), 🔹 Complete my academic secondment in Groningen (@RUG), 🔹 […]