Annika Preiß

Annika grew up in New Jersey (USA) and Basel (Switzerland). In high school, she discovered her love for chemistry (mostly just mixing things) and moved to St Andrews, Scotland to pursue her undergraduate degree. She completed her placement year in the Medicinal Chemistry department at F. Hoffmann-La Roche and then returned to St Andrews to complete her masters in the Westwood group. Annika came back to Roche in Basel to do another internship at Roche, synthesizing oligonucleotides in high-throughput fashion and working to automize and optimize the upstream and downstream production processes. Now she is a Ph.D. Student in the Fiedler group to investigate the mechanism of protein pyrophosphorylation by biochemical methods. Just like every other Swiss resident, Annika loves hiking in the mountains and eating chocolate. Other than that she is training for triathlons, playing board games, discovering new restaurants in Berlin and hoping to start learning to play the electric guitar.