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SONJA JOST SONJA JOST (CEO, DEXLECHEM), born in 1980, studied Industrial Engineering / Technical Chemistry at Technische Universität Berlin. From 2006 to 2011, Jost received various research fellowships in the field of homogeneous chiral catalysis. From 2011 to 2012, she was project leader of a third- party funded project from the German Federal Ministry of Economics on the subject of “catalyst re-using” at Technische Universität Berlin (EXIST research transfer), from which she founded DexLeChem GmbH together with three others at the beginning of 2013. She is the CEO of DexLeChem and has been a partner in the Unifying Concepts in Catalysis (UniCat) cluster of excellence since the summer of 2013. She has been honored by the Science4Life start-up initiative, the Academic Enterprise Awards (ACES) 2014 and the Victress Award 2015. As a green business opportunity, DexLeChem is offering high-tech services in homogeneous catalysis to manufacturers of APIs and fine chemicals. Using various concepts of Green Chemistry, the company develops smart solutions delivering economic and ecological benefits. Sonja Jost, Luca's science and German-language mentor since 2008, was an early-champion of JSES (read more) since it was founded in 2010 in her home city of Berlin: |
JSES BERLIN MENTORS
SCIENCE - DR. PROFESSOR HANNS-CHRISTIAN GUNGA - Director Center for Space Medicine Berlin
THE ARTS - MARION KRACHT - Actress, Cookbook Author (Kracht Kocht), Fashion Designer "Marion Kracht Designs by Lana"
SCIENCE - DR. PROFESSOR HANNS-CHRISTIAN GUNGA - Director Center for Space Medicine Berlin
THE ARTS - MARION KRACHT - Actress, Cookbook Author (Kracht Kocht), Fashion Designer "Marion Kracht Designs by Lana"
JSES Berlin 2017
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Mafalda von Alvensleben (17) continues as a Year 2 intern for JSES Berlin 2017. She brings four years of JSES experience to her role, starting JSES Berlin 2014 where she worked on a tandem Global Health project with her partner who traveled to New Delhi. At JSES Santa Monica 2015, Mafalda presented a a solo project, a recyclable medical supplies-themed work that drew from her experience working with her pediatric oncologist, whose ground-breaking work at UCLA she has long-supported by group fundraising efforts with "Chords for Cure", where as a singer/songwriter/musician, she shared the night's line-up with Coldplay's Chris Martin, and her Crossroads classmates. She also put her artistic talents to use designing a popular line of sports wear for the event, which raised a lot for pediatric cancer. Mafalda will perform in March 2017 at the 3rd Annual Chords for Cure where she will share the line-up wth One Direction. As a Crossroads High School Junior in Santa Monica, Mafalda continues to immerse herself in her science, and music studies, and she is also a competitive swimmer, and has been a member of the Mammoth Mountain Ski Team since 2013. She looks forward to putting her German AP skills to work as a Year 2 intern for JSES Berlin 2017 in August, and over the next several months she will work with JSES Founder, Luca Pistor, and JSES mentor, Sonja Jost, on the curriculum and speaker series.
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