Fabienne C. Fiesel, PhD, is an assistant professor in the department of neuroscience at Mayo Clinic in Florida. She received her MSc in biology from the University of Stuttgart in 2005 and earned a PhD in 2010 from the Eberhard-Karls-University in Tuebingen, Germany. She joined the lab of Dr. Wolfdieter Springer at Mayo Clinic, Jacksonville in 2011 and is currently building her own independent program at Mayo Clinic. She is interested in the functions of PINK1 and PRKN, proteins that are altered in Parkinson’s disease, and she investigates the roles they play in the removal of damaged mitochondria, a process called mitophagy. For her work, she bridges cell biology with genetics and neuropathology to develop biomarker tools and to detail the PINK1- and PRKN-associated dysfunctions in neurodegenerative disease.