Laboratory of Experimental Biophysics (Prof. Suliana Manley), Institute of Physics, EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland 🇨🇭

Fundamental mechanisms of mitochondrial genome organization and quality-control using advanced and super-resolution microscopy.

Mitochondrial Medicine laboratory (Prof. Anu Suomalainen-Wartiovaara), Stem Cells and Metabolism, University of Helsinki, Finland 🇫🇮

Mitochondrial DNA maintenance disorders, metabolism, cardiac development, and aging.

Mitochondrial Medicine laboratory (Prof. Anu Suomalainen-Wartiovaara), Molecular Neurology, University of Helsinki, Finland 🇫🇮

Pathomechanisms of human genetic diseases affecting mitochondria and metabolism.

Faculty of Medicine, University of Helsinki, Finland 🇫🇮

Dissertation: Mitochondrial DNA replication defects: consequences for neonatal heart disease & premature aging

Faculty of Medicine, University of Helsinki, Finland 🇫🇮

Thesis: Structural Insights into Creatine Transport from Novel Disease Mutation

Faculty of Science, University of Helsinki, Finland 🇫🇮

Thesis: Development of a New Method for Quantitative dNTP Pool Measurement from Biological Samples

M.Sc. (5), M.D.-Ph.D. (2) and Ph.D. students (2, one faculty appointed co-supervisor)

University of Helsinki, Finland 🇫🇮 & EPFL, Switzerland 🇨🇭

[French] Swiss Biology Olympiad IBO|Suisse, Switzerland 🇨🇭

University of Chicago Marine Biology Laboratory, Woods Hole, USA 🇺🇸

Olimpíada Argentina de Biología, Argentina 🇦🇷

University of Helsinki (Dpbm-158, scientific seminars and career skills and development workshops), Finland 🇫🇮

Iberoamerican Biology Olympiad, Azores, Portugal 🇵🇹

Technology Academy Finland & Aalto University, Finland 🇫🇮

Iberoamerican Biology Olympiad, Rio Cuarto, Argentina 🇦🇷

AFS Intercultural Programs, Argentina 🇦🇷 & Finland 🇫🇮

Faculty Council of the School of Basic Sciences , École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland 🇨🇭

International Workshop on Treatment of mtDNA Maintenance Disorders
(15-person clinician, scientist, patient relative, and pharma consensus meeting), The Netherlands 🇳🇱

Helsingin Yliopiston Kemistit ry (Student union for chemistry students at the University of Helsinki), Finland 🇫🇮

Best poster prize | Sitges, Spain 🇪🇸

Best poster prize | Fiuggi, Italy 🇮🇹

Video Competition Winner | Singapore National Research Foundation, Singapore 🇸🇬

Ph.D. dissertation distinction | Pioneering theses of exceptional quality, top 10% | Finland 🇫🇮

Best poster prize | Finland 🇫🇮

Stipend [5 000 €] | "Enhanced mtDNA replication as a mechanism underlying neonatal heart failure"

Materials grant [8 000 €] | "Enhanced mtDNA replication as a mechanism underlying neonatal heart failure"

Stipend [5 000 €] | "Enhanced mtDNA replication as a mechanism underlying neonatal heart failure"

Selection | Singapore National Research Foundation, Singapore 🇸🇬

Research visit grant [12 000 €] | "Dynamics of mtDNA Synthesis - Relevance for Infantile Muscle Diseases" | UC Davis, USA

Top-10 Ph.D. application salary position [~175 000 €] | Best 10 proposals across the university | Finland 🇫🇮

Salary position [~175 000 €] (granted & declined) | Finland 🇫🇮

Salary position [~175 000 €] (granted & declined) | Finland 🇫🇮

Materials grant [8 000 €] | "Dynamics of mtDNA Synthesis - Relevance for Infantile Muscle Diseases"

Stipend [5 000 €] | "Dynamics of mtDNA Synthesis - Relevance for Infantile Muscle Diseases"

Stipend [5 000 €] | "Dynamics of mtDNA Synthesis - Relevance for Infantile Muscle Diseases"

Best poster prize | Finland 🇫🇮

Best poster prize | Finland 🇫🇮

Best poster prize | "Mitochondrial DNA replication disorders remodel one-carbon metabolism" | Steamboat Springs, Colorado, USA 🇺🇸

Direct Admission Offer | Finland 🇫🇮

Selection | Competitive global selection of promising young students | Technology Academy Finland & Aalto University, Helsinki, Finland 🇫🇮