MSc Pranika Singh is a PhD studentat Edelweiss Connect. Her research training and career development is supported by the EC funded project Marie Skłodowska-Curie Action (MSCA), named ‘in3’.

Hailing from India, she took her first step towards bioinformatics when she joined Jaypee University of Information Technology, India for bachelor studies.

During the course of her studies, she was exposed to various aspects of bioinformatics and was actively involved in small challenging projects related to it.

She was motivated to continue in the same and decided to pursue her master degree from University of Bonn, Germany and meanwhile got an opportunity to work at Fraunhofer SCAI as a research assistant. She gained a lot of experience in research working at SCAI by being part of many projects which were offered to her. She also got training in specialized domains like Life Science Knowledge Discovery, Semantic Web development and Machine Learning.

She has gained a lot of experience while working with data integration and analysis which motivates her to work for her PhD project which involves database management and data analysis.

Her passion involves travelling, reading books and she strongly believes in growing by learning from whatever comes along in life.