In the sixth round of Rosalind Franklin Fellowships, the Faculty of Science and Engineering has appointed:

Dr. Amalia Dolga

Amalia Dolga received her MSc degree at the Department of Chemistry, West University of Timisoara, Romania (2003) spending part of her studies at Universität Bremen, Germany, and following the M.Sc. program "Biochemistry and Molecular Biology".  She earned her Ph.D. in 2008 from the University of Groningen in the Netherlands. She continued as a postdoctoral fellow in the laboratory of Prof. Carsten Culmsee, Philipps-University Marburg, Germany. Between 2013-2015 she pursued the Habilitation program at the Department of Pharmacology and Clinical Pharmacy, Marburg, Germany.   Since September 2015, she is appointed as a Rosalind Franklin Fellow at the Department of Molecular Pharmacology, Groningen Research Institute of Pharmacy (GRIP) of the Faculty of Science and Engineering.

Her research focuses on several aspects of neurodegeneration, including excitotoxicity, calcium deregulation, oxidative stress, inflammation, and mitochondrial damage.