Fenja Murken

Fenja Murken

PhD candidate
Research Interests: biochemistry • structural biology • cryo-EM • RNA-origami

Academic education

Since Feb 2025 PhD candidate at Max Planck School Matter to Life
Research performed in the lab of Kerstin Göpfrich at ZMBH, Heidelberg University
Sep 2022 - Nov 2024 Master of Science Matter to Life: Molecular Systems Chemistry and Engineering, Heidelberg University
Oct 2018 - Jul 2022 Bachelor of Science in Chemistry focussing in Biochemistry, University of Bremen

Research experience

May 2024 - Nov 2024 Master thesis in the group of Kerstin Göpfrich, Center of Molecular Biology, Heidelberg University and Sebastian Eustermann, EMBL Heidelberg
Oct 2023 - Mar 2024 Student researcher in the groups of Andreas Herrmann, DWI Aachen and Frauke Gräter, HITS Heidelberg
Apr 2022 - Jul 2022 Bachelor thesis in the group of Petra Swiderek, IAPC, University of Bremen
Nov 2021 - Mar 2022 Student assistent in the group of Tristan Wagner, Microbial Metabolism, MPI for Marine Microbiology in Bremen
Jan 2021 - Jun 2021 Erasmus exchange semester, Umeå University, Sweden

Scholarships

Oct 2019 - Mar 2022 Deutschlandstipendium
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