Uwe J. Dengler
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| Gender | Male |
|---|---|
| Industry | Government |
| Occupation | Senior Scientist, Diplom-Biochemiker, Doktor der Naturwissenschaften (Dr. rer. nat.) |
| Location | Heilbronn, Baden-Württemberg, Germany |
| Links | Audio Clip |
| Introduction | After school in the Westallgäu, I earned a master degree in biochemistry and a doctorate in bioinformatics. Then I completed a post-doc in an EU project and worked at the European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI) in Cambridge, UK. Following this, I joined Novartis AG in Basel, where I was tasked with evaluating Singapore as a location for an institute for tropical diseases. I collaborated with the Singapore Government, local scientific leaders, and Novartis colleagues to establish this institute. Currently, I am studying “Leadership and Management” at the MIT Sloan School of Management in Cambridge, MA, USA, while working at “Experimenta” in Heilbronn. My background also includes service as an elite infantry soldier in NATO's spearhead forces, with extensive combined arms combat training and experience in the general staff. Among other things, my unit contributed to ISAF in Afghanistan and the NATO Very High Readiness Joint Task Force (VJTF). Most recently, I worked in strategic workforce foresight, geographical balance, and international relations in the European Commission in Brussels. In my free time, I am passionate about all sorts of adventure sports and amateur astronomy. |
| Interests | As a human being, I love to explore and find the farthest boundaries of potential, pushing my mental and physical boundaries. If you keep pushging the edge, eventually you will find the edge. Nonetheless I'm aware that nature always remains superior to us humans. |
| Favorite movies | 13 hours - The Secret Soldiers of Benghasi (Michael Bay), The Alpinist (Peter Mortimer), Dune I & II (Denis Villeneuve), The Equalizer I-III (Antoine Fuqua), Le Grand Bleu (Luc Besson), Hidalgo (Joe Johnston), Ran (Akira Kurosawa), Twenty Seconds of Joy (Jens Hoffmann), Kill Bill 1&2, Pulp Fiction (Quentin Tarantino) |
| Favorite music | Britpop, Dance, Dubstep, Elektro House, Elektropop, Euro Disco, Indie, Piano Rock, Synth Pop |
| Favorite books | Alan Burt Akers (Kenneth Bulmer) - "The Dray Prescot series", Daniel Anker - "Eiger. Die vertikale Arena", Sir Winston Churchill - "The River War", Hermann Hesse - "Siddhartha", "Das Leben bestehen", J. R. R. Tolkien "The Hobbit", "The Lord of the Rings", Carl Zuckmayer: "Als Wärs ein Stück von mir" |