Христина

KHRYSTYNA BILIAK
Located in Lviv, UA | [open contact info](look above in the "contact info" section) | ✆ [open contact info](look above in the "contact info" section)

OBJECTIVE

With extensive experience of studying and working in fast-paced international environments, I am now
seeking a position which requires my fluent communication skills in both German and English.

EXPERIENCE

Freelance, tutoring | Sep. 2022 – Jun. 2023

§ As a private tutor, I was providing German and English lessons to middle and high school pupils as
well as university students

Max-Planck Institute for Brain Research, Frankfurt, DE

Student assistant, Department of Connectomics | Sep. 2019 – Dec. 2020

§ I was helping with reconstruction of large sets of electron microscopy data by manually tracing brain
cells and analysing their development which has contributed to the creation of the anatomically
detailed map of the brain's neuronal networks

Volunteer work

Mentor for international students in Frankfurt, DE | Aug. 2019 – Mar. 2022

§ By volunteering at the PASCH Mentoring Programme from the Central Agency for German Schools
Abroad, I was supporting and advising international students at the beginning of their studies in
Germany

EDUCATION

Goethe University in Frankfurt, DE

§ Graduated in Jul. 2024 with the Bachelor of Science degree in Biological Sciences with the focus
on Neurobiology. For my thesis, I have investigated the impact of a vascular endothelial growth factor
on pyramidal neurons in a region of the murine hippocampus, contributing to the research of the
crosstalk between the nervous and vascular systems conducted by the Department of Neuro and
Vascular Guidance of the Goethe University and Buchmann Institute for Molecular Life Sciences

§ Successfully accomplished internships in the fields of Physiology, Neurobiology, and Genetics,
acquiring laboratory skills such as microscopy (light, light-sheet, confocal), preparing media,
 conducting gel electrophoresis, PCR, Nissl cell staining, fluorescent antibody technique, gene mapping
and deletion, auxanographic technique of screening and selection of microorganisms

SKILLS

§ Languages: Ukrainian – native German ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ English ★ ★ ★ ★ ★

§ Software experience: Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel, MATLAB, Fiji, Imaris, GraphPad