On Monday, May 23rd Arsene received an official letter from the Finnish National Agency for Education informing him that he was awarded the EDUFI scholarship to pursue his doctoral work at the University of Helsinki. In a nutshell, the grant is intended for postgraduate studies as well as research and...
Staff
Warm welcome to our new intern!
New year — new lab member
Going North – Two lab members join the Helsinki group
On September 1, Arsene Kanyamibwa and Hendrik Hartmann relocated from the Max Planck Institute in Leipzig to the University of Helsinki, doubling the group size there. Besides dealing with Finnish bureaucracy and enjoying the full meteorological spectrum from a sunny September to a rainy and cold October, both picked up...
We have new staff
January saw the arrival of 2 new O’BRAINers. Arsene Kanyamibwa started his PhD with us and Madeleine Ordnung joined the zanadio study as scientific staff. To many happy studies.
Congratulations Dr. Meemken
On 23rd of July, we had the pleasure of celebrating with Marie Meemken who successfully defended her PhD thesis on implicit and explicit appetitive outcome learning in obesity. We at the O’BRAIN Lab are very proud to see another female scientist emerge from our midst! Well done, Marie!
Testing resumes in Leipzig
After months of lockdown and social distancing the team in Leipzig is back at the MPI and testing. An extensive cataloque of hygiene measures has been developed to protect both participants and staff during experiments. Whilst not all methods can be used yet, the O’BRAIN Lab has already tested a...
The O’BRAIN Lab in times of Corona
Life at the O’BRAIN Lab is beginning to return to normal — staff in Leipzig were welcomed back to the office (in small numbers), while working from home continues in Helsinki, with an exit strategy being prepared. We tried to make the best of social distancing while in lockdown and...
Corona in Europe
Like almost all countries all over the world Germany and Finland have been facing the COVID 19/Corona crisis since late February and early March. In an unprecedented move, both the University of Helsinki as well as the MPI in Leipzig, went virtual as preemptive measures. All staff, incl. the entire...
Welcome Daniel
What an excellent start to the new decade! We now have our first PhD student in Helsinki! Daniel joins us from Nijmegen where he spent a few years working in industry before returning to Scandinavia and science. In true style he was welcomed by Annette and Suse with a selection...