PERSONAL INFORMATION

Family name, First name: Karolina , Pircs
Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=16taigUAAAAJ&hl=en
ORCID: 0000-0001-8281-4785
Website: https://kpircs.com/

Education/Degrees:

2004-2009  M.Sc. in Biological Sciences, Area of specialization: Molecular Biology, Genetics

2009-2013   Eotvos Lorand University, Budapest: Ph.D. in Biological Sciences, Area of specialization: Molecular Cell Biology

Positions and Employment:

HCEMM (Hungarian Centre of Excellence for Molecular Medicine) – SU (Semmelweis University), Institute of Translational Medicine, Budapest, Hungary

2020.10.01.-2024 Assistant Professor at HCEMM-SU Neurobiology and Neurodegenerative Diseases Research Group

Lund University, Molecular Neurogenetics, Department of Experimental Medical Science, Lund, Sweden

2019 – 2024 Assistant Professor, Associate Senior Lecturer

2016 – 2019 Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Temporary Position

2014 – 2016 Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Hjärnfonden fellowship

Eötvös Lóránd University, Department of Anatomy, Cell and Developmental Biology, Budapest, Hungary

2013-2014 Research Assistant, Project employment

Scientific Productivity & Bibliometric Measures:

Total number of published/accepted original peer-reviewed articles and reviews: 22

First authorship: 5

Last authorship: 1 (Autophagy, Q1, IF: 11.1)

Total number of citations: 8254 (Google scholar)

H-index: 16

BioRxiv papers: 2

Teaching Experience:

2014- present Scientific Lecturer at Lund University, Faculty of Medicine:
Scientific writing, Neurodegenerative diseases, Molecular genetics of eukaryotic organisms, Research Preparatory Course in Neuroscience

2019 Invited Speaker at What’s next? Meeting forum for Postdocs- Supervision of junior staff.
How to be a role model? organized by Lund Stem Cell Center (SCC)

2015 – present Unistem Cell Day (workshop organizer), Europe-wide Public stem cell engagement:
outreach event on stem cells dedicated to high school students (>500 students each year)

Formal Pedagogic Training: Perspectives on Learning, Project Based Learning, Research Supervision, DUCO Management Training

EMBO Laboratory Management Course: The art of leadership- fewer conflicts, more results
Academic productivity and stress management – the road to effectiveness

Supervision:
2020 – present Ongoing Supervision as a PI at HCEMM-Semmelweis University, Budapest, Hungary
Lea Danics, Postdoc, Mateusz Skawski, PhD, Dorina Jamniczky, MSc
2014 – 2020 Supervision as main supervisor at Lund University, Lund, Sweden

2 summer students (Caroline Sevcik, Kristina Thumfart), 1 BSc student (Stina Lagerström), 5 MSc students (Jessica Lagerwall, Kritika Sharma, Bob Hersbach, Sofia Madsen, Monika Matusiak-Brückner currently all enrolled in prestigious PhD programs)

Reviewing Experience:

2020 – present Guest Editor, GeroScience
2018 – Grant Reviewer, Neurological Foundation of New-Zealand Grant Reviewer
2018 – DFG (German Research Foundation)

Regular reviewer for Brain, Autophagy, Plos One, Cellular and Molecular Neurobiology, Experimental Neurology, Jove publons.com/a/921583/

Awards and Honors:

2020 Kutatók éjszakája a virtuális térben, Bőrsejtből agysejt: sejtprogramozás alapfokon, Oral presentation at the European Researcher’s Night

2020 Press release about Vetenskapsrådet awards Lund Stem Cell Center researchers over 23 million SEK – – – 2017-2020 NAS (Nordic Autophagy Society) member and sponsorship team member

2020 The AIM Center’s Early Career Investigator Series, selected ePoster

2020 Virtual Stem Cell Center Lectures- New frontiers and implications of new species models and Frontiers in the Development of New Gene Therapy Delivery (organizer, chair)

2019 Press release at the EMV News about faculty-funded Associate Seniour Lecturer (BUL) position

2019 Speaker at CRISPR seminar series

2019 Speaker at 2nd Nordic Huntington Disease Research Meeting

2019 Speaker at What’s next? Meeting forum for Postdocs- Supervision of junior staff. How to be a role model?

2019 Speaker at The Multipark Retreat

2019 Speaker at Lund Stem Cell Center Retreat

2019 Lund Stem Cell Center Article of the Year Award for “Huntingtin Aggregation Impairs Autophagy, Leading to Argonaute-2 Accumulation and Global MicroRNA Dysregulation” published in Cell Reports, 2018

2019 Speaker at The Segerfalk Symposium- Neural reprogramming and disease modeling

2014 & 2015 &2018 Speaker at NECTAR Conference (Oral presentation and Datablitz Session Chair)

2018 Speaker at Nordic Huntington Disease Research Meeting

2018 AcouSort, AcouWash User (#6 place in The Scientist 2018 Top 10 Innovations)

2018 Scientific lecture, MTA-TTK Institute of Enzymology, Hungary (Activation of autophagy as a treatment strategy in Huntington’s disease)

2018 Expert Voices – Video on the importance of user safety

2016 – ongoing Representative of Sweden in Transautophagy (CA COST Action CA15138 European Network of Multidisciplinary Research and Translation of Autophagy knowledge)

2015 – 2020 Unistem Cell Day (workshop organiser, helper in a Europe-wide Public stem cell engagement: outreach event on stem cells dedicated to high school students)

2017 Best Poster Award, The FEBS Journal (NAS: Autophagy Across Kingdoms, 2017, Sigtuna)

2017 Speaker at Multipark Retreat of Highlighting the use of Multipark Infrastructure in Lund

2017 Speaker at EMBO Autophagy Conference (Selected abstract in Dubrovnik at the EMBO Autophagy: From Molecular principles to human diseases)

2016 Speaker at Bagadilico Retreat of granted project in Ystad

2016 Speaker at Transautophagy Conference (Selected abstract) in Warsaw at the Annual Transautophagy Conference