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I am working right now as senior lecturer and group leader (NORDFERTIL research lab Uppsala) at the Department of Organismal Biology, Uppsala University and are an affiliated researcher at the Department of Women’s and Children’s Health, Childhood Cancer Research Unit, ̽����ѡ and University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden. In addtion to my work as group leader, I am the research coordinator of NORDFERTIL (www.nordfertil.org).


*COURSES AND DEGREES*
2001 - 2005 - Study of Biology, Westphalian Wilhelms University (WWU), Münster Germany
2005 - Diploma-thesis (Master Thesis; Biology), Centre of Reproductive Medicine and Andrology (CeRA), WWU, Münster, Germany & University of
Pittsburgh, USA
2005 - 2009 - Ph.D.-studies (Biology), CeRA, WWU, Münster, Germany


*DOCTORAL DEGREE*
2009 - Biology (Reproductive Biology), Title: “/In vitro/ differentiation of male germ cells.” CeRA, WWU, Münster, Germany; PhD supervision: Prof.
Dr. E. Liebau; Prof. Dr. S. Schlatt


*POSTDOC APPOINTMENTS*
2009 – 2013 - Post-Doc at the Department of Women’s and Children’s Health, Pediatric Endocrinology Unit, ̽����ѡ; supervision:
Prof. Dr. Olle Söder


*DOCENT-LEVEL COMPETENCE*
2016 - Docent in Reproductive Biology; ̽����ѡ

*Ongoing supervision of a PhD candidate:*
1) Hajar Ali Mohammed Ba Omar, ̽����ѡ
Title: “Effects of haematological and oncological diseases on
spermatogonial stem cell populations in boys.”
Registration: 2018-09-04
main supervisor: Jan-Bernd Stukenborg, PhD (Uppsala University & ̽����ѡ, Sweden); 
co-supervision: Kirsi Jahnukainen, MD, PhD (̽����ѡ, Sweden),
Nikolas Herold, MD (̽����ѡ)

*Ongoing supervision of a PhD candidate as co-supervisor:*
1) Ieva Masliukaite, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Title: “Propagation of human SSCs”.
Registration: 2015-10-20; main supervisor: Sjoerd Repping, MD, PhD
(University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands), co-supervision: Ans M. M. van
Pelt, PhD (University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands), Jan-Bernd Stukenborg,
PhD (̽����ѡ, Sweden).
2) Melanie Poganitsch-Korhonen, University of Helsinki, Finland;
Title: “Male fertility, late morbidity and ageing after childhood cancer”
Registration: 2014-09-24; main supervisor Kirsi Jahnukainen, MD, PhD
(University of Helsinki, Finland), co-supervision: Jan-Bernd Stukenborg, PhD
(̽����ѡ, Sweden)

*PhD candidates supervised up to the defence of the candidate’s doctoral 
thesis:*
1) Femke Harteveld, ̽����ѡ
Title: “Macrophages and the testicular microenvironment in humans.”
Defence: 2025-06-05
main supervisor: Jan-Bernd Stukenborg, PhD (Uppsala University & ̽����ѡ, Sweden); 
co-supervision: Kirsi Jahnukainen, MD, PhD (̽����ѡ, Sweden);
Susana Chuva de Sousa Lopes, PhD (University of Leiden, The Netherlands)1) Yanhua Cui, ̽����ѡ
Title: “Novel strategies to preserve future fertility in boys and �����.”
Registration: 2018-09-11
main supervisor: Jan-Bernd Stukenborg, PhD (̽����ѡ, Sweden);
co-supervision: Kirsi Jahnukainen, MD, PhD (̽����ѡ, Sweden),
Michael Landreh, PhD (̽����ѡ
2) Yifan Yang, ̽����ѡ
Title: “Effects of ̽����ѡ treatments of gonadal development in boys and
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Defence: 2025-05-21
main supervisor: Jan-Bernd Stukenborg, PhD (Uppsala University & ̽����ѡ, Sweden); 
co-supervision: Kirsi Jahnukainen, MD, PhD (̽����ѡ, Sweden);
Jingtao Guo, PhD (University of Utah, USA)

3) Bethel Embiae, ̽����ѡ
Title: "Functional characterization and targeting of neuroblastoma cell of
origin"
Defence: 2025-05-07; main supervisor: Ninib Baryawno, PhD (Karolinska 
Institutet); co-supervision: John Inge Johnson, PhD (̽����ѡ),
Malin Wickström Näsman, PhD (̽����ѡ), Jan-Bernd Stukenborg,
PhD (̽����ѡ)

4) Magdalena Kurek, ̽����ѡ
Title: “Human induced pluripotent stem cells differentiation towards the
male germ cell lineage.”
Defence: 2019-10-25
main supervisor: Jan-Bernd Stukenborg, PhD (̽����ѡ, Sweden);
co-supervision: Olle Söder, MD, PhD (̽����ѡ, Sweden), Sarita
Panula, PhD (̽����ѡ), Rod Mitchell, MD, PhD (University
Edinburgh, UK)
5) Halima Al-Balushi, ̽����ѡ
Title: “In vitro models aiming for fertility preservation.”
Defence: 2018-11-16
main supervisor: Jan-Bernd Stukenborg, PhD (̽����ѡ, Sweden);
co-supervision: Olle Söder, MD, PhD (̽����ѡ, Sweden); Outi
Hovatta, MD, PhD (̽����ѡ, Sweden); Elisabet Åkesson, MD, PhD
(̽����ѡ, Sweden)
6) Joao Pedro Alves Lopes, ̽����ѡ
Title: “Novel culture systems to model testicular function and
organization.”Defense: 2018-08-31
main supervisor: Jan-Bernd Stukenborg, PhD (̽����ѡ, Sweden);
co-supervision: Olle Söder, MD, PhD (̽����ѡ, Sweden), Ellen
Goossens, PhD (VUB, Belgium)
7) Mina Nikolova Mincheva, University of Münster, Germany
Title: “Interaction of male gonadal cell types in differentiation cell
culture” Defense: 2018-03-15
main supervisor: Stefan Schlatt, PhD (University of Münster, Germany),
co-supervision: Sylvia Kaiser, PhD (University of Münster, Germany),
Jan-Bernd Stukenborg, PhD (̽����ѡ, Sweden)
8) Ahmed Reda, ̽����ѡ
Title: “Artificial testis to study early gonadal development and germ cell
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Defence: 2016-09-30;
main supervisor: Jan-Bernd Stukenborg, PhD (̽����ѡ, Sweden);
co-supervision: Olle Söder, MD, PhD (̽����ѡ, Sweden); Kirsi
Jahnukainen, MD, PhD (̽����ѡ, Sweden & University of Helsinki,
Finland
9) Sarita Panula, ̽����ѡ
Title: “Differentiation and charaterization of human iPSC derived germ
cells and the derivation of patient specific iPSC lines for the study of
infertility.” Defence: 2015-06-09; main supervisor: Outi Hovatta, MD, PhD (Karolinska
Institutet, Sweden); co-supervision: Olle Söder, MD, PhD (Karolinska
Institutet, Sweden); Jan-Bernd Stukenborg, PhD (̽����ѡ,
Sweden), Renee Reijo Pera (Stanford University, USA)