Curriculum Vitae

Academic education 06/2012 – present Technical University Munich, TUM

Graduate student at the chair of bioelectronics and bionanotechnology at the center for nanotechnology and nanomaterials Topic: Molecular cascades on DNA origami structures

(Prof. Friedrich Simmel) 09/2008 – 09/2011 Technical University Munich, TUM Master of Science in Biology (Final grade: 1,5) Major topics: protein chemistry, oncology and immunology 02/2011 – 09/2011 Master Thesis at the Institute of Molecular Immunology Klinikum rechts der Isar, TUM (Prof. Jürgen Ruland)

Topic: The transforming potential of AKT and its possible role in NF-kB signaling (Grade 1,3)

08/2008 – 10/2009 Distance University Hagen

Double degree course in business administration at the distance university Hagen

10/2005 – 07/2008 Technical University Munich, TUM Bachelor of Science in Biology (Final grade: 2,2) 04/2008 – 07/2008 Bachelor Thesis am Chair of Biotechnology, TUM (Prof. Johannes Buchner)

Topic: Expression, purification and characterization of c-Src-kinase mutant (Grade: 1,7)

Additional participation in lectures and seminars of economics and business administration Participation in business plan seminars at the UnternehmerTUM GmbH, TUM

International Experience 01/2010 – 02/2010 Bosch Ltd., Bangalore, India Internship in the marketing department

Project: Analysis of the market and establishment of cabin filters for air condition in cars

08/2009 - 12/2009 Student exchange at the Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore, India Theoretical and practical courses in biochemistry Funded by the scholarship “A new Passage to India”, awarded by the

German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD)

Additional practical experience 10/2011 – 11/2011 COHAUSZ & FLORACK, Düsseldorf, Germany Internship in a patent law firm

Assistance in filing, responses to office actions, investigations about states of the art

12/2010 – 01/2011 III. Medizinische Klinik, Klinikum rechts der Isar, TUM Institute of Molecular Immunology, Research Internship in Immunology und Oncology 03/2010 Clinical Center Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany Internship in the molecular biology lab and in pathology Clinical chemistry 04/2009 – 07/2009 Roche Diagnostics GmbH, Penzberg, Germany Internship in pharmaceutical research Development of

Project: Analysis of therapeutic proteins by Dynamic Light scattering 09/2008 – 10/2008 Chair of biotechnology, TUM

Topic: Expression, purification und characterization of recombinant FKB6 protein 03/2008 Chair of Biological Chemistry, TUM Purification and analysis of recombinant proteins 10/2007 HelmholtzZentrum München, German Research Center for

Environmental health Institute of Soil Ecology (IBOE), Isolation and biochemical characterization of soil bacteria Additional skills

Student Representative of the Graduate Program of the Sonderforschungsbereich (SFB) 1032

Windows (Microsoft Office) Basic skills in Bioinformatics Basic skills in VBA, HTML Basic skills in Matlab Language skills Deutsch (Mother tongue) English (fluent) French (basic skills) Portuguese (basic skills) Spanish (basic skills) Publications M. Teichmann, E. Kopperger, and F.C. Simmel Robustness of Localized DNA Strand Displacement Cascades ACS NANO (2014) DOI: 10.1021/nn503073p