FONDA Fall 2025 Retreat

FONDA’s members met from October 7th to 9th in Potsdam for our Fall Retreat. In addition to subproject progress reports, each PhD student presented a poster regarding their thesis topic, and we had two marvelous keynote talks by Carole Goble and Sarah Cohen-Boulakia!

PhD Retreat at Coconat


From September 10-12, FONDA’s doctoral researchers met at Coconat space for a self-organized retreat. The group shared tools they use to keep their research organized and worked on abstracts for potential collaborations between subprojects, ideas for potential master’s thesis topics, and other ideas for FONDA

FONDA Spring Retreat 2025

FONDA had its spring 2025 retreat on April 8th and 9th at the beautiful Schloss Lübbenau! All of the subprojects presented their progress so far, and our phase II Teams (T6-T9) had the chance to kick off their collaborations.

FONDA Winter Retreat 2024

Members from both phases of FONDA met for our retreat in Kremmen from December 4th to 6th. Scientists from the first phase passed the torch to the incoming cohort with presentations of the work so far and lively scientific discussions about the future.

We also elected the following board members during the General Assembly:

  • Speaker – Prof. Ulf Leser
  • Deputy Speaker – Prof. Matthias Weidlich
  • Equality and Diversity Commissioner – Prof.  Anna-Lena Lamprecht
  • Prof. Odej Kao
  • Luisa Gerlach
  • Christopher Lazik