Rate My Professor Natalie Kaempf

Natalie Kaempf holds a Dr. rer. nat. degree and has been affiliated with KU Leuven as a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Neurosciences at the Leuven Brain Institute, in association with the VIB-KU Leuven Center for Brain & Disease Research. Her work has focused on neuroscience topics including synaptic transmission, neurobiology, and models of parkinsonism using Drosophila.

She is the first author of the 2026 paper 'Behavioral screening defines the molecular Parkinsonism-related subgroups in Drosophila' published in Nature Communications, which used behavioral screening and machine learning to identify molecular subgroups in parkinsonism models. Kaempf has also contributed to related preprints and studies on synaptic mechanisms and Parkinson's disease heterogeneity. Her educational background includes studies at Freie Universität Berlin.