Experience

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Master Thesis Student — Frauke Gräter Group

Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research

Aug 2025 – Present · Mainz, Germany

Designing lysine crosslinking proteins with state-of-the-art protein design models and fine-tuning them for function; contributing new model modalities for functional protein design.

mpip-mainz.mpg.de/de/graeter

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Intern — Michael Boutros Group

German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ)

May 2025 – Aug 2025 · Heidelberg, Germany

Lab rotation using BindCraft to design in silico small protein binders targeting Wnt-pathway proteins relevant to cancer proliferation.

dkfz.de/en/signaling-and-functional-genomics

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Intern — Kai Johnsson Group

Max Planck Institute for Medical Research

Feb 2025 – May 2025 · Heidelberg, Germany

Lab rotation establishing a computational protein design workflow. Used RFdiffusion, ProteinMPNN, and AlphaFold3 to redesign SNAP-tag2 for improved stability and function.

mr.mpg.de/13943495/chemical_biology

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Student Member — iGEM Heidelberg

Heidelberg University

Dec 2023 – Oct 2024 · Heidelberg, Germany

Team member in the iGEM 2024 competition covering project development, design, and presentation.

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Intern — Neva Caliskan Group

Helmholtz Institute for RNA-based Infection Research (HIRI)

Feb 2023 – Mar 2023 · Würzburg, Germany

Continuation of the optical-tweezers project; work formed the basis of the bachelor thesis.

helmholtz-hiri.de/en/

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Intern — Neva Caliskan Group

Helmholtz Institute for RNA-based Infection Research (HIRI)

Jun 2022 – Aug 2022 · Würzburg, Germany

Single-molecule optical tweezers to study Type IV-A CRISPR/Cas binding to DNA.

helmholtz-hiri.de/en/

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Intern — Michaela Rumlová Group

University of Chemistry and Technology (UCT Prague)

Sep 2021 – Jan 2023 · Prague, Czechia

Troubleshot purification of SARS-CoV-2 exoribonuclease subunit; learned core molecular-biology techniques.

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Intern — Petr Cigler Group

IOCB Prague, Czech Academy of Sciences

Oct 2020 – Apr 2021 · Prague, Czechia

Worked on synthetic nanodiamond particles, polymer surface coatings, and functionalization with ion-specific complexes.

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