About Me

Hi and welcome to my home web base, I haven’t had time to clean up, so what you’re seeing here isn’t really something I’ve spent a lot of time working on. I apologize. But it does offer peeks into my life from very early days, and it’s self hosted! Yay.

I’m a biologist, at heart. Today I am exploring computational biology and I love it. Currently a graduate student at the Technical University of Munich working with experimental bioinformatics. With two Masters degrees in molecular biology and cellular biology, I can’t let go of the love for biology.

Born in a rainforest in India I spent a lot of my formative years working on conservation projects in the form of herpetology, material sourcing and building sustainable energy sources with a strong focus on Bio-Methane production. Our footprint matters. In contributing to a sustainable future, I built a brand to protect my rain forests. I am convinced that our collective future resembles a collective of small holding farms that can manage food production without the need for chemicals.

Dr. Fenns was a brand that helped me dream that into reality. A sustainably sourced spice brand, built by me and my father, sourced the worlds purest spices extracted with a supercritical fluid extractor, helped make spice extracts, without the need for solvent chemicals such as acetone or ethanol. This was the world’s first 100% pure spice extract that retained an organic certification. Building this company gave me deep insights to the start-up culture, where I had already been dabbing my feet.

Having founded Non-Governmental Volunteer Organisations, and having worked in 4 start ups including my own, in my early career, I found myself solving problems of various kinds. However my strength lay in objective scientific puzzles and decided to embark on this journey that’s lead me to my PhD in Computational Medicine. A crazy journey, right?

Still I don’t bite. Reach out to me when you’d like and I’d be happy get to know you.

My Resume: https://www.linkedin.com/in/amitfenn/

I’ve been featured here at: http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/at-scientific-american/2014/08/25/a-hangout-with-google-science-fair-in-swaziland/ and here: http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/at-scientific-american/2014/09/21/putting-science-in-action-in-swaziland/

But you can read about it in detail here:

http://www.solarcities.eu/projects/sundowners-backpacker-lodge-manzini-swaziland-2014

http://www.solarcities.eu/projects/sakhiwes-grandfathers-farm-swaziland-2014

The blog of the Volunteer Organisation I work with, FSL: http://fsl-india.org/blog/category/ydp/ydp-bangalore-chapter/

http://www.unep.org/wed/activities/#.VQuDCWN8y1F

Social Media:

CouchSurfing: https://www.couchsurfing.org/profile.html?id=M73UKV5

Twitter: https://twitter.com/amitfenn

I’m looking at people I can share my ideas, projects and enthusiasm with. Feel free to hit me up at amitfenn@gmail.com and we can get in touch.

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