Our team is composed of experienced leaders and multidisciplinary scientists.
Driving complex scientific programs, we work in a flat organizational structure relying strongly on the expertise contributed by each of us.
24 employees
50% PhD
46% women

Keyhan Alvandipour
Data scientist

Jennifer Arthur Ataam, PhD
Senior scientist

Mona Boyé, PhD
Head of business development

Léa Chemardin-Liss
Office manager

Thomas Chrétien
Finance controller

Konstantinos Gkatzis, PhD
Head of cardiovascular projects

Bénédicte Gobert
Scientist

Zahra Hanifehlou, PhD
Data scientist

Helmut Haning, PhD
Chief Operations Officer

David Hoffmann
Research technician

François Kien, PhD
Operations manager

Ombline Conrad, PhD
Senior Scientist

Antoine de Lacombe
Chief Executive Officer

Arnaud Ogier, PhD
Head of Data & image analysis

Myrto Patraskaki, PhD
Senior scientist

Arnaud Poret, PhD
Head of bio-informatics

Karen Schmitt, PhD
Head of neuro-developmental projects

Peter Sommer, PhD
Head of science

Amélie Weiss
Head of HTS/HCS screening

Marion Wendenbaum
Research technician

Nicolas Wiest-Daesslé, PhD
Senior data scientist

Johannes Wilbertz, PhD
Head of neuro-degenerative projects

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.