Ksilink’s Team
Our team is composed of experienced leaders and multidisciplinary scientists committed to implement Ksilink’s credo for success based on innovation, cooperation, and motivation.
Management
Antoine de Lacombe
Managing & finance director
Mona Boyé, PhD
Business development director
Peter Sommer, PhD
Scientific director
Cardiac disorders
Konstantinos Gkatzis, PhD
Project leader
Jennifer Arthur Ataam, PhD
Senior scientist
Bénédicte Gobert
Scientist
Catherine Koch
Scientist
Neurodevelopmental & neurodegenerative disorders
Karen Schmitt, PhD
Project leader
Carole Chaput
PhD student
Johannes Wilbertz, PhD
Project leader
Myrto Patraskaki, PhD
Senior scientist
David Hoffmann
Research technician
Image & data analysis / Artificial intelligence
Arnaud Ogier, PhD
Head of image analysis
Zahra Hanifehlou, PhD
Data scientist
Nicolas Wiest-Daesslé, PhD
Senior data scientist
Keyhan Alvandipour
Data scientist
Bio-informatics
Arnaud Poret, PhD
Bio-informatics scientist
High-content & high-throughput screening
Amélie Weiss
Senior scientist
Marion Wendenbaum
Research technician
Operations & administration
Thomas Chrétien
Finance controller
Léa Chemardin
Office manager
François Kien, PhD
Operations manager
Antoine de Lacombe
Managing director
Graduated from Université Paris-Dauphine in management and Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Paris in corporate finance, Antoine started with Ernst & Young. He then joined a privately-owned group where he gained experience in corporate finance and restructuring. Antoine is the managing director of Ksilink.
Mona Boyé, pHD
Head of Business development and partnerships
With a PhD in molecular Biology from Cardiff University, UK, Mona worked several years as a Technology Transfer Officer at the CNRS and was heading a team of Innovation and Matchmaking Officers at the trinational, industrial cluster BioValley. She accumulated over 15 years of experience in technology transfer and open innovation before joining the Ksilink team in 2016.
Peter Sommer, pHD
Scientific director
Graduated in Virology from the University of the Saarland, Peter worked on retroviruses at the Institut Pasteur in Paris and headed a translational research team at the Institut Pasteur Korea in Seoul. Peter has gathered 15 years of experience in translational research and drug discovery in Europe and Asia before joining Ksilink in 2014.
