Our SmartAge ESR5, Simon Schrenk from University Hospital Jena, is currently doing one of his secondments at Karolinska Institute (KI), Stockholm.
As a university, KI is Sweden’s single largest centre of medical academic research and offers the country’s widest range of medical courses and programmes. Since 1901 the Nobel Assembly at Karolinska Institutet has selected the Nobel laureates in Physiology or Medicine. Karolinska Institutet was founded by King Karl XIII in 1810 as an "academy for the training of skilled army surgeons". Today, Karolinska Institutet is a modern medical university and one of the foremost in the world (source: https://ki.se/en).
Simon was also immediately impressed by the modern architecture and the many employee-friendly facilities, such as great break areas (roof terrace, green coffee corners, etc.) or sports facilities, at KI.
Simon completes his secondment in the working group of Rochellys Diaz Heijtz, Department of Neuroscience, works there on his own project and can thus gain extensive experience in everyday laboratory life. This is a new experience for him as a psychologist, and he was looking forward to it. His free time he spends with the members of the working group as well. They have already shown him the surrounding area. Together they went hiking, bouldering and to bars.
We are already looking forward to his final report and wish him an interesting and successful stay in Sweden.