Avelina Rybinski

BSc Biomedicine Graduate from Lund University I 2025 NTU Global Connect Fellow I 2024 LMU Amgen Scholar

Lund, Skåne County, Sweden

About

Experience

  • Lund University (Lund, Skåne County, Sweden)
    • International Student Ambassador
      Oct 2023 - Present · 2 yrs 9 mos

      As international ambassador, I assist prospective students with their questions over the unibuddy platform and create social media content for Lund University.

    • Vice Chair for the Biomedicine Educational Council
      Sep 2024 - Jun 2025 · 10 mos

      Overseeing student well-being and satisfaction within the biomedicine program at Lund University. In this role, I also organized and hosted the medical faculty's annual science evening, connecting current biomedicine students with professionals from academia and industry in the greater Copenhagen area.

    • Lund University Summer Research Scholarship
      May 2024 - Jul 2024 · 3 mos

      Research Project at the Experimental Dementia Research group of Professor Gunnar Gouras at Lund University. During this time, I followed the effects of immunotherapy on intracellular amyloid-beta aggregates in Alzheimer's disease cell lines using live cell imaging with the Operetta CLS system.

  • Global Connect Fellow at Nanyang Technological University Singapore
    Jul 2025 - Aug 2025 · 2 mos

    2-month internship in the Organelle Dynamics and Function Lab of Asst. Prof. Dr. Claudio Bussi within the NTU Global Connect Fellowship program. I followed changes in the lipid dynamics of microglia with lysosomal damage using super-resolution live cell imaging.

  • Bachelor's Thesis at Lund Stem Cell Center
    Jan 2025 - Jun 2025 · 6 mos

    30-ECTS Bachelor's Thesis in the Regenerative Neurophysiology group of Dr. Daniella Ottosson. For my thesis, I aimed to refine a stem cell differentiation protocol for the production of parvalbumin interneurons and presented my work in a written thesis, presentation and poster.

  • Amgen Scholar at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
    Jul 2024 - Aug 2024 · 2 mos

    As part of the prestigious Amgen Scholars Program, I investigated the lung microbiome in stroke within Dr. Corinne Benakis' research group at the Institute for Stroke and Dementia research (ISD). At the end of the summer, I got to present this work at the University of Cambridge during the European Amgen Scholars Symposium.

  • SI-leader at European Centre for SI-PASS
    Aug 2023 - Feb 2024 · 7 mos

    Organization and hosting of students-for-students discussion forums based on the SI-PASS concept