egassant@mpi-cbg.de

Max Planck Institute of Molecular
Cell Biology and Genetics
- Egas Santander -

Pfotenhauerstr. 108
01307 Dresden
Germany

Daniela Egas Santander

Group Leader

Scientific Career

since 2025

Research Group Leader at the MPI-CBG

2025

Curation Scientist and Product Owner, Open Brain Institute

2020-2024

Postdoctoral Fellowship, Blue Brain Project, École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne

2017-2020

Postdoctoral Fellowship, Laboratory of Topology and Neuroscience, École poly-technique fédérale de Lausanne

2015-2017

BMS Dirichlet Postdoctoral Fellowship, Freie Universität Berlin

2014-2015

Postdoctoral position, Max Planck Institute for Mathematics, Bonn

2014

Postdoctoral position, Institute for Mathematics, Technische Universität Berlin

2014

Postdoctoral position, Mathematical Institute, University of Bonn

Education

2011-2014

Ph.D. in Mathematics
University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen-Denmark
Thesis: Graph complexes and the Moduli space of Riemann surfaces
Computational Geometry and Algebra Research Group
Advisor: Nathalie Wahl

2008-2010

M.Sc. in Mathematics
University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen-Denmark
Thesis: Quasi-categories and Complete Segal spaces
Advisor: Alexander Berglund

2001-2007

B.Sc. Magna Cum Laude in Mathematics
B.Sc. Magna Cum Laude in Chemical Engineering
Minor in Physics

Universidad San Francisco de Quito, Quito-Ecuador