DOCTORAL
CANDIDATES
Background
In 2016, my interests in genetics led me to volunteer as a synthetic biology workshop leader at Stockholm Makerspace in collaboration with iGEM Stockholm 2016. After graduating high-school in 2017, I took a sabbatical to participate in the 2018 iGEM Stockholm team, creating a reusable enzyme-based technology for bioremediation of waste water supervised by prof. Johan Rockberg at KTH Royal Institute of Technology.
Following the conclusion of this multi-award winning project, I was granted an internship at University of Cambridge to do protein polymer engineering for open research tools under Prof. Jenny Molloy's supervision at the Dept. of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology.
I resumed my education full time in 2019, and joined Prof. Jonas Frisén’s lab as a self-funded summer intern in 2021. This progressed to a Bachelor’s thesis project and role as a research assistant. I continued my work there during my studies, focusing on neuroimmunological interactions in the healthy and injured central nervous system using mouse models, transcriptomics and advanced imaging techniques.
In June 2022, I earned my BSc in Medical Science with a specialization in Biomedicine from Karolinska Institutet. In the Frisén lab, I explored Interleukin and receptor dynamics in mouse spinal cord with the emergent goal of understanding cues that activate and bias ependymal cells towards a non-neuronal fate. To be able to incorporate systematic analysis of large biological datasets in my research, I took extracurricular courses in Bioinformatic analysis and pursued overgraduate studies at SciLifeLab, focusing on Molecular and Computational Biomedicine.
After earning my MSc in Molecular Techniques in Life Science from SciLifeLab (Karolinska Institute, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, and Stockholm University) in 2024, I joined prof. Judith Zaugg’s lab at EMBL gaining expertise in cutting-edge methods including single-cell multiomic sequencing and gene regulatory network construction.
Research
In January 2025, I will combine my passion and expertise in immunology and computational biology as a Doctoral Student in Prof. Judith Zaugg’s lab at University of Basel. My project will investigate cell-type specific effects of mutations in the NFKB1 gene, aiming to understand how disturbances in the NF-κB pathway contribute to disease phenotypes in NFKB1-mutated patients using single cell multiomics. This project aims to provide an integrative framework that predicts the pathway dysregulation that can be utilized by the Marie Skłodowska-Curie doctoral candidates within the IMMERGE consortium.