Prof. Dr. Natalia Kononenko - Curriculum Vitae

2020: W2 tenure track, Molecular and cellular physiology, Medical Faculty, University of Cologne
2015 - 2020: Research Group Leader, CECAD, University of Cologne, Germany
2012 - 2015: Project leader, Leibniz-Institute for Molecular Pharmacology (FMP), Berlin
2009 - 2012: Postdoctoral researcher, Charité Medical School, Berlin
2007 - 2009: Postdoctoral researcher, Kavli Institute for Systems Neuroscience, Trondheim, Norway
2005 - 2007: Alexander von Humboldt postdoctoral fellow, Free University Berlin, Berlin
2002 - 2005: PhD in Human and animal physiology, Kolzov’s Institute for Developmental Biology, Russian Academy of Science, Moscow, Russia
1996 - 2001: Diploma in Biology, Faculty of Biology, Department of Human and Animal Physiology, State University of Kaliningrad, Russia

Awards, Distinctions and professional activities

2022: Organizer of EMBO workshop on “Brain autophagy in health and disease”, Girona, Spain
2019: Scientific instructor and lecturer at CAJAL Course ”Advanced Techniques for Synapse Biology”, Bordeaux, France
2017: Referee for i.a. Nat. Neurosci, Nat. Comm, PNAS, eLife
since 2017: Associate scientific editor for Frontiers in Cellular Neuroscience and representative of EURON
since 2017: Grant proposal Reviewer for DFG (Germany), ANR (France), ISR (Israel)
2017: Cologne Excellent Women in Science (CEWIS) award
2014: Chartê Medical School award “Female Neurocure fellow”
2005: Alexander von Humboldt award for postdoctoral fellowship
2004: IBRO award for research fellowship
2003: DAAD award for research fellowship
2002: Marga & Kurt Möllgaard award for research fellowship