Mikaela grew up in Sweden and obtained her PhD from Stockholm University where she studied regulation of RNA editing in neurons in Marie Öhman´s lab. As a postdoc she joined Michaela Frye and Duncan Odom´s laboratories in Cambridge (2017). When both labs moved to the DKFZ in Heidelberg (2019) she followed and today her current research interests are Cancer biology, Epitransciptomics and Naked mole-rats. Mikaela particularly enyojs playing pranks on unsuspecting lab members, arranging complicated travel plans as well as signing up for sport courses and then not going.