Maud holds a bachelor’s degree in Chemistry from the University of Freiburg in Germany and a Master’s degree in Life Sciences from the University Paris-Cité. During her studies, she completed various internships, in Biochemistry, Synthetic Biology and Microbiology. After her Master’s program, she continued working on one of these projects as Assistant Engineer at the Institut Curie (Team Pascal Hersen, supervised by Alvaro Banderas), focusing on the optogenetic control of pheromone production in yeast.
After that she worked as Engineer in the startup Inorevia, where she developed microfluidics protocols for the preparation of Sequencing libraries using a specially developed automation device.
In 2023, Maud’s passion for research and Synthetic Biology motivated her to start a PhD under the supervision of Manish Kushwaha and Olivier Borkowski. Here, she is working on the gene expression cost of synthetic genetic constructs in E. coli, specifically on how sequence features modify the cellular allocation of gene expression resources (like RNA polymerase and ribosomes).
