🎉3 Years of the Journey – Annual update – DC6 – Suresh Rohan
September 3, 2026 Three years ago, I started my #PhDjourney in a new and unfamiliar country, with many questions about what lay ahead. Today, three years later, I look back with a great sense of gratitude for how much this journey has taught me — both scientifically and personally. The past three years have been filled with new places, […]
🎉 Three Years Into the PhD Journey and an Approach to the End! Annual update – DC8 – Lindelo Mguni
September 1, 2026 Three years ago, I started my #PhD with excitement, curiosity, and more than a little uncertainty. New country, new city, new labs, new colleagues. August marked three years since the beginning—a milestone that also reminds me that this chapter is getting closer to an end. The past year has been full of activities with conferences attended and the completion […]
🎉 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 […]