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Céline was trained as a chemist at the École Nationale Supérieure de Chimie de Rennes in France. In 2005, she moved to the University of Waterloo in Canada to study for a Master degree during which she investigated the thermodynamics and kinetics of multimeric protein folding. In 2008, she came back to France to do a PhD at the CEA Saclay, where she studied the structural details of transmembrane domains and integral membrane proteins using solution state Nuclear Magnetic Resonance spectroscopy. In 2011, she went to the University of Cambridge for a first post-doc in the group of the late Professor Sir Chris Dobson, where she deciphered the mechanism of lipid-induced aggregation of alpha-synuclein as well as the influence of lipid properties on this process. In 2016, she moved to Germany for a second post-doc at the German Centre for Neurodegenerative Diseases (DZNE) in Bonn in the group of Professor Donato Di Monte, where she studied different animal and cellular models of Parkinson’s disease and identified lipid changes associated with genetic risk factor of the disease in human fibroblasts. Since 2019, Céline is Associate Professor at the Department of Drug Design and Pharmacology at the University of Copenhagen, where she has established her current research line aiming at investigating the role of lipids in the initiation and spreading of Parkinson’s disease using stem cell biology, post-mortem tissue analyses and lipid/protein biophysics. In her free time, Céline practices ashtanga yoga and enjoys reading, cooking, hiking and spending time with her family. Credit picture: Suste Bonnén.