People
Group Leader
Prof. Dr. Michael Schlierf
Room 218
Tel. +49 (351) 463 43050
short CV
Assistant
Michelle Schlöffel
Room 223
Tel. +49 (351) 463 43240
Technician
Senior Scientist
Dr. Andreas Hartmann
Room 219
Project Lead aCOS
Tel. +49 (351) 463 44283
Postdocs
Dr. Lukáš Pekárek
(jointly with Jahnel lab)
Room 219
Tel. +49 (351) 463 43051
Dr. Ekaterina Vorobevskaia
Room 219
Project Lead PepAntiAdapt
Tel. +49 (351) 463 44283
Dr. Pilar Lörzing
Room 220
Tel. +49 (351) 463 43051
Predocs
Simon Doll
Room 220
Tel. +49 (351) 463 43051
César Augusto Quintana-Cataño
Room 220
Tel. +49 (351) 463 43055
Mayank Gupta
Room 213
Tel. +49 (351) 463 43055
Ayushi Gupta
Room 215
Tel. +49 (351) 463 43055
María del Sol Reyes Ortiz
Room 215
Tel. +49 (351) 463 43055
Bachelor/Master Students, Guests and other Scientists
Dr. Anupam Bhoi
(Guest Scientist)
Room 219
Tel. +49 (351) 463 43051
Leo König
Room 215
Tel. +49 (351) 463 43051
Christin Birkner
Master student
Room 220
Alumni
Former Postdocs and Predocs
| Name | Position | When | Last known position |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dr. Karl-Ludwig Schumann | master and PhD student | 2019-2024 | |
| Dr. Mathias Schenkel | master and PhD student | 2017-2023 | Open Sesame Therapeutics, Dresden |
| Dr. Mordjane Boukhet | Postdoc | 2019-2022 | |
| Dr. Neharika Chamachi | PhD student and wrap-up Postdoc | 2016-2022 | DcGC Deep Sequencing, Dresden |
| Dr. Anna Svirina | PhD student | 2018-2022 | Data Analyst at Delivery Hero |
| Dr. Adeeba Fathima Valiya Thodiyil | PhD student | 2017-2022 | postdoc at University of Cambridge Powells lab, UK |
| Dr. Simon Ollmann | PhD student | 2015-2021 | Quadrio, Dresden |
| Dr. Anja Buttstedt | open topic postdoc | 2017-2020 | group leader at University of Tübingen |
| Dr. Georg Krainer | PhD student and wrap-up postdoc | 2013-2019 | ERC-funded group leader and Assistant Professor at University of Graz, Austria |
| Dr. Ann Mukhortava | PhD student and wrap-up postdoc | 2012-2018 | Lumicks, Amsterdam |
| Dr. Philip Gröger | Diploma student and PhD student | 2011 - 2017 | Qoniac GmbH, Dresden |
| Dr. Christiane Jungnickel | PhD student and wrap-up postdoc | 2011 - 2017 | Bilfinger SE, Dresden |
| Dr. Maj Svea Grieb | PhD student and wrap-up postdoc | 2012 - 2016 | Director of Product Marketing, Refeyn, UK |
| Dr. Martine Ruer | PhD student | 2011 - 2015 | Postdoc at MPI-CBG Dresden in Hyman lab |
| Dr. Hsin-Mei Cheng | PhD student and wrap-up postdoc | 2011 - 2015 | Sunny Pharmtech |
| Dr. Marko Swoboda | Postdoc | 2011 - 2015 | Siltectra GmbH, Dresden |
Former students/researchers
| Name | Position | When | Last known position |
|---|---|---|---|
| Çağatay Turgut | Master student | 2025/2026 | |
| Zaeem Asghar | working student | 2025/2026 | Master Student CMS program |
| Daria Miasoedova | Technician, Student, Master student | 2023-2026 | PhD student in BIOTEC with Alf Honigmann (RTG3120) |
| Anastasiia Chinakova | Student | 2025/2026 | PhD student in BIOTEC with Simon Alberti (RTG3120) |
| Shashank Shekhar | Working student | 2026 | PhD student at MPI-CBG with Nagaraja Chappidi |
| Philipp Schake | Researcher | 2021-2025 | PhD student in Schroeder lab at TU Dresden |
| Linda Jurschik | Master Student | 2024 - 2025 | |
| Simon Letzer | Master Student and Researcher | 2023 - 2025 | PhD Student at TU Dresden |
| Charlotte Mille | Master Student | 2023 - 2024 | Trainee Quality Management at Rauch Fruchtsäfte |
| Shreyan Datta | Guest Scientist | Summer 2024 | |
| Simran Arora | Guest Scientist | Summer 2024 | PhD Student at TIFR Mumbai |
| Florian Rost | Master Student and Researcher | 2022-2024 | Development Engineer at VKTA |
| William Beyer | Student | 2023-2024 | |
| Marlen Zengerling | master student and researcher | 2022 - 2024 | Supervisor at BioNTech IMFS GmbH |
| Anasua Barman | Rotation Student | 2023-2024 | Master student in Diez lab |
| Dominik Horák | master student and researcher | 2022-2023 | PhD student at Czech Academy of Sciences |
| Miriam Schramm | master student and researchert | 2021-2023 | PhD student in Berlin |
| Marlene Neumann | bachelor student | 2022-2023 | |
| Ieva Austėja Jakaitytė | master student and researcher | 2020-2022 | c-LEcta GmbH, Leipzig |
| Carmen Rosa Cruz Reyes | researcher | 2021-2022 | PhD student with Scheffel lab, Greifswald |
| Kanish Siddarth Ravi Chandran | working student | 2022 | |
| Yi Han Huang | working student | 2021-2022 | master student Nanobiophysics |
| Tarek Benamar | working student | 2021-2022 | student in Brugués lab, TU Dresden |
| Koushik Sreenivasa | master student and researcher | 2019-2021 | PhD student in Joo lab, TU Delft |
|
Xiaoyue Shang |
master student | 2019-2020 | PhD student in Monzel lab, Düsseldorf |
| Agnes Marszal | working student | 2019 | Researcher with Dynamic Biosensors |
| Vadim Bogatyr | master student and researcher | 2017-2019 | PhD student at VU Amsterdam, Gijs Wuite lab |
| Marta Batet | master student and researcher | 2017-2019 | PhD student at CRG Barcelona with Ruprecht lab |
| Miloš Tišma | master student | 2018-2019 | PhD student at TU Delft, Cees Dekker lab |
| Leonard Schärfen | master student and researcher | 2017-2019 |
PhD student at Yale University Neugebauer lab; |
| Nivya Jane Jeyakumar | working student | 2018-2019 | Master student with Min Ae Lee-Kirsch, Uniklinikum Dresden |
| Mai Quynh Ma | master student and researcher | 2017-2018 | teacher in Pirna |
| Saranya Muthusamy | working student | 2017-2018 | master student at EMPA, St. Gallen |
| Abhinaya Anandamurugan | master student and researcher | 2016 - 2017 | PhD student at ALU Freiburg, Hugel lab |
| Judit Clopés Llahí | Working student | 2016 - 2017 | Master student at MPI-PKS, Dresden |
| Pablo Gracia | Master student and researcher | 2014 - 2016 | PhD student at BiFi - Zaragoza, Spain |
| Anastasiia Vlasiuk | master student and researcher | 2015-2016 | PhD student at EMBL Monterotondo, Italy |
| Antoine Treff | master student and researcher | 2015-2016 | Schwarmborn lab, Luxemburg |
| Matthias Pöge | master student and researcher | 2015-2016 | PhD student at MPI Biochemistry, Baumeister lab |
| Ashwin Balakrishnan | Working student | Summer 2015 | Master student Fahmy lab |
| Lisa Hannusch | Working and Master student | 2013 - 2015 | PhD student in Biology at TU Dresden, Rödel lab |
| Nadine Bölke | Working student | 2014 - 2015 | |
| Frederic Berndt | Master student | 2014 | PhD student at MPI-CBG, Dresden |
| Varsha Natarajan | master student and researcher | 2013 - 2014 | PhD student at University of Wollongong, Australia |
| Michael Matthies | Working student | Summer 2013 | PhD student at CFAED TU Dresden |
| Steffen Hahn | Working student | 2011 - 2013 | Master Mathematics at TU Dresden |
| Ekaterina Gabashvili | Master student | Summer 2012 | |
| Joran Deschamps | Internship | Summer 2011 |
PhD student at EMBL Heidelberg |
Former Assistants
| Name | Position | When | Last known position |
|---|---|---|---|
| Emelie Brosig | Technician | 2026 | Uniklinikum Dresden, Pathologie |
| Johanna Mock | Administrative Assistant | 2021 - 2026 | |
| Kristin Heintze | Technician | 2015 - 2025 | Infrastructure Coordinator, DZNE Dresden |
| Dr. Yujun Zhang | Technician | 2021-2023 | Technician at Sieweke Group, CRTD, TU Dresden |
| Antje Walter | Administrative Assistant | 2018-2021 |
Directorate 1 - Budget and Purchases, TU Dresden |
| Melanie Hänsel | Technician | 2018-2019 | Technician with Yael Politi, B CUBE |
| Katja Dornig | Administrative Assistant | 2010-2018 | B CUBE central administration |
| Kristin Wogan | Technician | 2011-2018 | Uniklinikum Dresden |
| Ariane Dimitrov | Administrative Assistant | 2015 | CRTD, TU Dresden |
| Stephan Friebe | Technician | 2012 - 2014 | Technician at Carl-Gustav-Carus Dresden |