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I am a cell and molecular biologist with a doctorate from the University of Vienna and postdoctoral training at ̽»¨¾«Ñ¡. During my doctoral research, I investigated chromosome segregation and genome maintenance during meiotic cell division, using fission yeast as a model system. Following this, I joined Prof. Björkegren’s lab in Sweden for a postdoctoral position. While my initial goal was to further explore nuclear chromosome biology, I became increasingly interested in the genome, and biology, of mitochondria—our maternally inherited organelle. During this time, I developed a mitochondria-specific targeted protein degradation system, establishing a distinct research direction that diverged from my supervisor’s primary focus.

I am interested in exploring how metabolism and mitochondrial functions influence the earliest days of human embryonic development, especially when the cells are still totipotent. As research on human embryos is ethically restricted, I am using a stem-cell based model of 8-cell stage of human embryos, developed in the Kere lab.