Florian Alexander Dehmelt, PhD

If you found this page, you likely participated in one of our workshops at FELASA 2025 in Athens. Thank you for having contributed, we’ve really been looking forward to the opportunity to interact!

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Workshop slides:

These are the slides presented on Monday, 2 June. As our session on Tuesday was intentionally similar, no separate set of slides is provided.

About me:

Florian Alexander Dehmelt
LinkedIn profile:
https://de.linkedin.com/in/dehmelt
Current lab website:
https://arrenberg-lab.de/team/

• Physicist (MSc), Biologist (MSc), Computational Neuroscientist (PhD), and Higher Education Researcher (MA ca. 2026)
• 15 years of research experience in both Computational and Experimental Neuroscience (e.g. with zebrafish), with a focus on basic research on the robustness of networks, as well as practical implementations of Refinement (e.g. killing fish with electricity, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41684-024-01505-0)
• temporary lecturer (Lehrbeauftragter) at Tuebingen University, Germany, with a focus on mathematics in the sciences, as well as data visualisations
• volunteer science communicator (e.g., German-language videos)
• freelance communications trainer for research institutes, universities and other non-profits (see German-language page)
• co-founder and -president of Pro-Test Deutschland e.V.
• get in touch via LinkedIn (above) or e-mail (florian.dehmelt AT pro-test-deutschland.de)

About Pro-Test

Pro-Test Deutschland e.V. is a non-profit organisation (als gemeinnützig anerkannt) founded in 2015. It has a (mostly) German-language website at https://weareprotest.org, with an English version planned. Want to help?

• almost 100 members in dozens of places across Germany, as well as a few international members
• members are students, animal caretakers, vets, and other researchers willing to share their experience with lab animals either openly or anonymously (by personal choice)
• staffed and led by volunteers only, no employees, no offices
• no funding other than small private donations (~3.500 euros/year)

Pro-Test pursues two major aims:

• to communicate openly our own individual attitude towards and our personal experience with lab animals – what do we actually do, and how did we come to the conclusion that it may be ethically justified?
• to communicate openly the limitations of, mistakes in, and necessary improvements to animal experiments; create awareness among our peers, and look for ways to make change happens

Besides media interviews, public events and conference contributions, Pro-Test runs an online series of symposia called “Unsuck Your Science”, held in irregular intervals (whenever our members find the time to organise them, really): https://www.pro-test-deutschland.de/unsuck-your-science-2024/

Looking for our other FELASA speakers?

Check out their content here:

• Sally Robinson, https://tinyurl.com/felasa2025robinson
• Caroline Johner, https://tinyurl.com/felasa2025johner
• Sabine Juliane Bischoff, https://tinyurl.com/felasa2025cirslas
• Natascha Drude, https://tinyurl.com/felasa2025preclinix