Angelika Langeder’s fascination of neuroscience led her up north, first to Sweden and now to Denmark, and she is excited to explore her interests within neurobiology in the NAD PhD programme.
Born in Austria, Angelika's fascination of neuroscience led her all the way to Sweden, where she completed a master’s degree in Neurochemistry with Molecular Neurobiology at Stockholm University. Angelika chose the programme because it was specifically focused on neurobiology, and she has different interests within the field:
“Topics-wise, I am interested in neurodevelopment and psychiatric diseases. I am very interested in stem cell-derived technologies, like iPSC models where you investigate cell fates – how different cell types emerge and how they take on different fates. I am also very interested in multi-omics approaches,” Angelika explains.
Angelika loves the satisfying precision of lab work, a process that she compares to baking, one of her hobbies. She also appreciates how her many interests – from wetlab work to data science, from evolution to psychology – can be combined in neuroscience through the wide variety of techniques employed in the field.
For her first rotation in the Tiwari lab at the University of Southern Denmark, Angelika will be involved in the lab’s work on iPSC models in healthy neurodevelopment and disease, a very close fit to her interests.
Angelika is excited to explore opportunities and build new connections in Danish neuroscience during the next four years:
“The NAD PhD programme kind of stood out because I did not have to specify from the beginning which lab I am going to be in. I also like that there is so much collaboration and networking. Both scientifically and socially, there are a lot of connections between the different labs and people in Danish neuroscience, and there is a lot of interdisciplinarity,” Angelika says.