My research focus was on how endocrine disrupting chemicals affect fetal development. I worked both with epidemiological and experimental studies, and 20% in the management team for the EU project ENDpoiNTs (aiming to develop new test methods for endocrine disrupting chemicals).I also supervised master and doctoral students, as well as lecturing at both Uppsala University's and Karolinska Institutet's master's program in (environmental) toxicology.

My research was about endocrine disrupting chemicals and their effect on neurological development in children. The postdoctoral project was a Formas-funded collaborative project on how endocrine disrupting chemicals affect the blood-brain barrier, with a special focus on bisphenol A, S and F.

Investigating effects of fetal exposure to endocrine disrupting chemicals. I have been part of the EU funded project EDC-MixRisk which investigated how mixtures of chemicals affect fetal development, where I had a special focus on metabolic disruption.

Investigating the association between anti-viral antibodies and multiple sclerosis

Thesis title: Human herpesvirus 6A and 6B: Assay validation, virus - host interaction and clinical relevance. https://openarchive.ki.se/xmlui/bitstream/handle/10616/45389/Thesis_Elin_Engdahl.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=yAcquired skills: • Both independent and collaborating working skills, project management of my project, experimental planning, data analysis, presentation of scientific results. • Reading of scientific literature and presenting of articles once every week at a journal club. • Independent manuscript and grant application writing. • Great laboratory skills as the project contain much in vitro experiments. Methods used: cell- and virus culturing, bisulfite pyrosequencing, q-PCR, IFA staining, electron microscopy, FACS, immunoprecipitation, ELISA etc

Routine and research analyses of anti-drug antibodies against the MS treatments interferon beta and natalizumab.Acquired skills: • Increased knowledge about immunology, multiple sclerosis and treatment of the disease. • Laboratory skills using different bioassays, cell and virus culturing, q-PCR, ELISAs etc.• Method development and presentation of resultsWorkplace Safety Officer 2009-2011

Routine analyses of autoimmune and allergen-specific antibodies, and of complement system dysfunction. Acquired skills: • Increased knowledge about autoimmunity and allergy. • Accurate laboratory work as the laboratory was SWEDAC- accredited. • Methods: ELISA, ImmunoCAP, cryosectioning, IFA staining etc

Title of project: "Estrogen receptor alpha and beta - Regulation of angiogenesis markers in the T47D breast cancer cell line"Acquired skills: • Increased knowledge about hormones and cancer. • Independent working as my supervisor quit the company during my project.• Methods: Cell culturing, RNA extraction, q-PCR etc

Summer Project at the Department of Molecular Biology, investigating how RACK1 participate in infection induced signalling in cultured cells.Methods: Cell culturing, bacterial culturing, method development, IFA staining, microscopy

Summer Project at the Department of Molecular Biology, analysing the effect of Yersinia Pseudotuberculosis in mouse spleen.Methods: Cryosectioning, immunohistochemistry, IFA, microscopy