Doctor Senka Ljubojevic-Holzer

After completing PhD in Molecular Medicine at the Medical University of Graz in 2012, Senka was granted the Austrian Science Fund (FWF) junior postdoctoral fellowship (2013-2017). The part of the project was allocated to the University of California Davis (USA), where Senka worked as a postdoc in Don Bers' lab. Currently, she is leading two projects at the Department of Cardiology of the Medical University of Graz; the senior postdoctoral fellowship of the FWF and the Young Researcher Groups funded by the BioTechMed-Graz. Senka's main research area is myocardial remodeling in early hypertrophy with specific focus on subcellular ion homeostasis and excitation-transcription coupling. Senka served as nucleus member of "Scientists of Tomorrow" from its founding in 2013 until 2018 and is currently a member of the Research and Grants Committee of the ESC. Senka is passionate about finding new ways to achieve scientific excellence without loosing the balance between important areas of life.