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David Klein
David grew up in Emmendingen near Freiburg. During his school years he only had one area of interest – biology. During his BSc in biology at KIT with Sylvia Erhardt he gained a lot of experience with microscopy and independent work and realized that pure wet lab work was not for him. Shortly after his […]
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Annika Nassal
Annika grew up in Königsbach-Stein near Pforzheim. She started her bachelor’s degree in computer science at KIT in October 2022. Her interests include bioinformatics and machine learning, which led her to now gaining her first experience at hilbertlab working with Nils on image processing of biomedical data using ML approaches.Apart from that she is interested […]
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Alicia Günthel
Growing up in a really small village in eastern Germany (in Saxony), Alicia decided to start a training as a biology laboratory technician after school because studying was never an option for her. In order to free herself from the negativity in her hometown, she moved to Karlsruhe in 2017. She completed her three-year training […]
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Elly Lohrer
Elly was born and grew up in Waghäusel, a town near Karlsruhe. In school, she developed a fascination for natural sciences that only grew with time. Staying close to home, she started studying biology at KIT and wrote her bachelor’s thesis on molecular aspects of mycorrhizal symbiosis. She continued with her master’s at KIT. After […]
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Ewa Anna Oprzeska-Zingrebe
Born near the city of Poznań in Poland, from her earliest years she knew that she wanted to be a scientist. To achieve this, after graduating from the International Baccalaureate high school, she began to study physics at the AGH University of Science and Technology in Cracow, Poland. During her studies she became more and […]
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Mona Wellhäusser
Mona grew up in Achern, a city in southern Germany at the foot of the Black Forest. During high school, she chose biology as one of her main subjects and never looked back. After finishing school, she wanted to see the world and ventured on the strenuous, demanding, 50 km journey to Karlsruhe. There, she […]
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Ajit Roy
Ajit was born in Rasikpur, a small village in hilly East Singhbhum, Jharkhand, India before moving to Kolkata, where he spent rest of his childhood and teenage years. From young age he was interested in making and breaking things. So, after completing his schooling from Baranagar Vidyamandir he did engineering in Optoelectronics at the University […]
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Maria Kokarakis
Maria has Greek roots but grew up in a small town near Mannheim. She started her scientific journey with a Bachelor’s degree in Biological Chemistry at the University of Applied Sciences Mannheim, which ignited her love for research. Seeking new challenges, she then pursued a Master’s degree in Karlsruhe and fell head over heels for […]
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Nils Friederich
Nils was born in Lüdenscheid but grew up in Sankt Augustin near Bonn. He started his bachelor’s degree in computer science at KIT and finished it at the University of Duisburg-Essen. After a gap year, he came back to KIT for his master’s. He did his master’s thesis at Fraunhofer IOSB in Karlsruhe. His thesis […]
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