About
Curious by nature and rarely in one place for long.
I travel whenever I can, enjoy throwing people into the air for sports and love meeting people whose lives look completely different from mine. I am ambitious, endlessly curious and usually working toward a dream that feels slightly too big.
I love mentoring and teaching, especially when I can make something complicated feel clear and approachable. Online, I share the honest side of medical school, PhD life and everything around it.
The day job
I am an MD/PhD student at Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin and a research affiliate at Mayo Clinic, working at the intersection of translational nephrology and rare genetic disease.
My doctoral research examines how the sulfate transporter SLC26A1 affects bone and musculoskeletal health.
Funding
- DeutschlandstipendiumFormer Scholar of the Deutschlandstipendium.
- StudienstiftungScholar of the Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes, the German Academic Scholarship Foundation.
- Else KrönerMD/PhD Scholar, Else Kröner-Fresenius-Stiftung.
- Kidney STARSTravel grant, selected twice, American Society of Nephrology.
The rest of it
The clinic teaches you to decide quickly. The lab teaches you to wait. Doing both means neither gets a full week.
I post the messy parts. The mistakes, the poster sessions, the experiments that lead nowhere.