Welcome To The Team

Team Mom

Astrid is 1 out of 6 biomedicine science majors in our team, and started her 5. Semester this summer. She was born and raised in Odense, and therefore knows different routes to the same destination in the city. Astrid is 22 years old, she enjoys an active lifestyle with frequent biking or jogging in the woods and she really loves travelling. However, this poses a problem, because as she puts it: “I have the time, but not the money to travel as much as I want”. One of her biggest dreams is to work with the central nervous system – either in a research group or in the medical industry. The central nervous system is well studied, but we still have much to learn and Astrid will contribute with discoveries in this field. Astrid joined the iGEM team to get an amazing experience, which could strengthen her qualifications in her field, teach her to research, and to be a part of a team with one concerted goal. And because she loves travelling, joining the big jamboree in Boston, US, was a lovely bonus. Her best experience in iGEM is the ping-pong discussion when things do not succeed, and in the end, when success is based on it. A fun fact is that she is fond of baking, but the best part of baking is when others enjoy it.

The Wiki Witch

Birka is a fire breathing, number crunching, keyboard typing, soccer playing mathematician. She lives in Odense with her dog, cat and her lovely wife to whom she got married this summer and of course the SDU iGEM team was present at this marvellous event. She studies applied mathematics and since that includes a lot of coding, she has been the one coding up our Wiki-page from scratch. Birka joined the team because she felt it would be an exciting challenge in her mathematical education. The best iGEM experience has been to actually witness the bacterial production of biodegradable plastic, what a wonder! Birkas number one favorite activity is performing fireshows with Cirkus Sort.