Experience

Founding Director Open Science Institute, Interlaken, Switzerland

• Advancing the Open Science Foundation's mission through research, development and open scientific infrastructure

Board Member ISCC Foundation

• Member of the foundation board

Board Member Kinderabenteuerhof Freiburg e.V.

• Member of the board

Principal Researcher AKASHA Foundation, Zug, Switzerland

• Worked with the co-founder of the Ethereum blockchain on Web3.0 technologies
• Developed economic models for scientific communication, attribution and funding
• Spearheaded the Blockchain for Science initiative

Head of Research Validity Labs AG, Zug, Switzerland

• Led research efforts at a blockchain technology company

Postdoctoral Fellow ETH Zürich, Dept. of Biosystems Science & Engineering

• Identified TNF as a key cytokine regulating the transcription factor PU.1 in hematopoietic stem cells
• Set up laboratory microfluidics efforts and developed single-cell cytokine-challenging devices
• Supervised 2 master's theses, 4 rotation students, and mentored 3 PhD students
• Awarded ETH Career Seed Grant (CHF 50,000)
• EMBO Long-Term Postdoctoral Fellowship Program (2012–2015)

Postdoctoral Fellow Helmholtz Zentrum München, Institute for Stem Cell Research

• Stem Cell Dynamics Research Unit with Dr. Timm Schroeder

2008 — 2012 PhD — Cancer and Immunology Harvard Medical School / MGH & Université de Lausanne

• Thesis: Endogenous and exogenous regulation of monocyte responses
• Published in Science, Nature, Cell Reports, PNAS, and more
• Awarded AACR Centennial Fellowship ($90,000) and Boehringer Ingelheim Fonds Fellowship

2005 — 2007 M.Sc. Molecular & Cellular Biology Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg & EMBL

• Research on microtubule dynamics at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory

2002 — 2005 B.Sc. Chemistry & Biochemistry Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München

• Research at the Max-Planck-Institut for Biochemistry on actin cytoskeleton dynamics