Palina Sarokina

Curve Labs / CL Cybernetix GmbH — Berlin

• Run operations and finance: payroll, invoicing, cash-flow & runway tracking, operational dashboards
• Own German grant-compliance & admin workflows (Forschungszulage / BSFZ); coordinate tax-advisor and legal processes
• Coordinate AI & product initiatives across a distributed team; structure research synthesis and deliverables
• Built internal tools for finance reporting, grant management, and team coordination — incl. Circe, a natural-language company-intelligence interface

Aether — freelance creative studio — Berlin

• Founded Aether as a freelance studio for creative work — spatial design, creative technology, photography, and 3D / product design
• Lead project teams of co-partners, collaborators, and build crews from concept through fabrication and install
• LiDAR interactive pavilion (Kineze) — spatial choreography with real-time sensing
• Festival art installations (Feel Festival, 2023–2025) — CAD pattern development, material planning
• AI-assisted creative tools, apps, and product / 3D design
• Editorial and performance photography (AETHER)

ROBERTNEUN Architekten — Berlin

• Joined as an intern, continued as junior architect
• Planning-phase work (LP3–LP4) on an office building in Luxembourg: BIM modelling, component lists and overview plans in ArchiCAD & Excel
• Digitised the building's full set of existing drawings from 1890

studio karhard — Berlin

• Freelance design and 3D work: visualisations and renderings for new projects
• 3D models of designs from planning drawings; client presentations and material selection

Curve Labs — Berlin

• Ran office operations and admin workflows; coordinated team projects and events
• Process optimisation across finance and admin before moving into the executive associate role

Halocline (VR logistics) — Berlin

• Built warehouses in 3D from client data for logistics & production planning in VR
• Modelled machinery, tools, and furniture for the native-VR object library

TU Berlin — Global Center of Spatial Methods · Leibniz-ZALF — Berlin

• Organised centre activities, events and student excursions; maintained web & social content
• Conducted and transcribed research interviews on sustainable agricultural-landscape development