Prof. Dr. Natalia Kononenko - Curriculum Vitae
Education and professional career
since 2023: CMMC PI, Project C 08 “Dissecting the role of Alzheimer’s disease-associated endocytosis risk factors in regulating cell cycle events in neuronal cells”
2020: Associate Professor (W2, tenured) in 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, Germany
2009 - 2012: Postdoctoral researcher, Charité Medical School, Berlin, Germany
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, Kaliningrad State University, Russia
Awards, distinctions and professional activities
Institutional Responsibilities (selected)
2023 - present: Full member, Interdisciplinary Program Molecular Medicine (IPMM) graduation and curriculum Committee, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany
2022 - present: Member of Nachwuchskommision, Medical Faculty, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany
2020 - present: Representative at UoC, The European Graduate School of Neuroscience (EURON), University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany
2020 - present: Gender and Diversity Board GRK 2550 (DFG) “Dynamic Regulation of Cellular Protein Localization”, University of Cologne, Germany
2020 - present: Ombudsman of SFB1451, University of Cologne, Germany
2018 - 2022: Member, CECAD Executive Board, Cologne Excellence Cluster EXC229/2230 “Cellular Stress Responses in Ageing-Associated Diseases” (CECAD), Cologne, Germany
2016 - present: Member, Thesis Advisory Committees of Graduate School for Biological Sciences, Math-Nat Faculty and IPMM, Faculty of Medicine, University of Cologne, Cologne
Service to the Scientific Community (selected)
2024: Associate editor “Autophagy reports”
2022: Co-chair, EMBO workshop “Brain autophagy in health and disease”, Girona, Spain
2020: Organizer, Symposium at 13th Göttingen Meeting of German Neuroscience Society, Göttingen, Germany
2019: Scientific instructor and lecturer, CAJAL Course ”Advanced Techniques for Synapse Biology”, Bordeaux, France
since 2016: Referee for i.a. Nat. Neurosci, Nat. Comm, PNAS, eLife, Autophagy
since 2016: 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