Pinoy Scientists in Germany

Erinne Ong is a Neuroscience Masters student at the International Max Planck Research School for Neurosciences at the University of Gottingen, Germany. She is currently investigating the role of myelin damage in Alzheimer’s disease.

Philip Cesar Flores is a postdoctoral researcher at the Max Born Institute for Nonlinear Optics and Short Pulse Spectroscopy in Berlin, Germany. His research explored the quantum time of arrival operators, investigating the quantum violation of the weak equivalence principle and the tunneling time problem.

Syrus Gomari, transportation scientist, CEO and founder of Mobility Vision Plus (MoVi+), a company that uses computer vision and data science to develop a next-generation urban mobility planning product.

Lorenz Chua is a postdoctoral researcher at the Berlin Institute of Health (BIH). Lorenz’s research revolves around high-resolution transcriptomic profiling using single-cell RNA-sequencing and spatial transcriptomics, with a special emphasis on respiratory diseases like COVID-19 and pulmonary fibrosis.

Denise Matias is a research scientist at the Institute for Social Ecological Research in Frankfurt, Germany. There, she undertakes social-ecological research on the Mongolian steppe ecosystem.

Christian Laurio is a materials scientist and a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Bonn in Germany.

Riel Ingeniero is a PhD candidate at the Integrated School of Ocean Sciences at the GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel in Germany. His Master’s thesis tackled primary productivity and nitrogen uptake rates in the subarctic and temperate North Atlantic Ocean.

Manuel Holz is a “half-German half-Cebuano” sociologist whose research focuses on the quantitative analysis of migration and inequality.

Gabriel Villamil is a molecular biologist pursuing his Ph.D. at the Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry in Göttingen, Germany.