Stepan Jerabek

Stepan Jerabek is a Postdoctoral Research Scientist at Columbia University in the City of New York since April 2022, specializing in DNA double-strand break repair in early human embryos under the mentorship of Dr. Dieter Egli. Concurrently, Stepan serves as a Scientific Researcher at IOCB Prague. Prior experience includes a Postdoctoral Research Fellowship at Harvard Medical School from December 2017 to September 2020 and a Ph.D. at the Max-Planck Institute for Molecular Biomedicine from 2011 to 2017, with a focus on Cell and Developmental Biology. Stepan completed a Master's degree in General and Applied Biochemistry at the University of Chemistry and Technology in Prague, graduating summa cum laude, and holds a Ph.D. in Biology from the University of Münster, earned magna cum laude.