Alumni

Andreas Beyer

2007 to 2012: Group Leader (Cellular Networks & Systems Biology) at BIOTEC
since 2013: Professor for Systems Biology at the University of Cologne.
New Website: https://www.cecad.uni-koeln.de/research/principal-investigators/prof-dr-andreas-beyer/

Michael Brand

2003 until 2018: Professor of Molecular Developmental Genetics at TU Dresden / BIOTEC
since 2018: Center for Regenerative Therapies (CRTD), TU Dresden.
New Website: https://de.487888.xyz/cmcb/crtd/forschungsgruppen/crtd-forschungsgruppen/brand/group-leader

Hans-Georg Braun

2004 to 2023: Member status TUD - Group leader (Microstructures in Biomaterials and Chemistry). He passed away on April 11th 2023.

Carlo Vittorio Cannistraci

2014 to 2021: Group leader for Biomedical Cybernetics at BIOTEC                                    since 2021: Chair Professor, Tsinghua Laboratory of Brain and Intelligence (THBI)
Director, Center for Complex Network Intelligence (CCNI) at THBI
Tsinghua University, Beijing, China.                                                                                             new Webpage: https://brain.tsinghua.edu.cn/en/info/1010/1003.htm

Suzanne Eaton

2015 to 2019: Professor of Developmental Cell Biology of Invertebrates at BIOTEC
She passed away on July 2, 2019.
Tribute Website: https://www.mpg.de/in-erinnerung-an-suzanne-eaton

Elisabeth Fischer-Friedrich

2017 until 2019: Group Leader (Aktive Rheologie des Zytoskeletts) at BIOTEC                 since 2020: Group Leader at PoL “Physics of Life” (Mechanics of Active Biomaterials)      new Webpage: https://physics-of-life.tu-dresden.de/research/core-groups/fischer-friedrich

Stephan Grill

2013 to 2019: Professor of Biophysics at BIOTEC
2019 to 2021: Founding Speaker Excellence "Cluster Physics of Life" at TU Dresden
since 2018: Director at Max-Planck-Institute for Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics in Dresden.                                                                                                                                          New Website: https://www.mpi-cbg.de/research-groups/current-groups/stephan-grill/research-focus/

Jochen Guck

2012 to 2018: Professor of Cellular Machines at BIOTEC
2018 till 2025: Director at Max-Planck Institute for the Science of Light and Max-Planck Center for Physics and Medicine in Erlangen.
He passed away on October 3rd, 2025. Tribute Website:  digital condolence book

Bernard Hoflack

2002 to 2016: Professor of Proteomics at TU Dresden / BIOTEC
since 2016: Professor Emeritus.

Marcus Jahnel    

2021 bis 2025: Group Leader "Dynamics of Biomolecules" at BIOTEC and Cluster of Excellenz "Physics of Life",  TU Dresden.

Jan Kaslin

2010 to 2011: Group Leader (Cerebellum Regeneration) at BIOTEC
since 2011: Group Leader at the Australian Regenerative Medicine Institute, Monash University.
New Website: https://www.armi.org.au/our-groups/kaslin-group/

Jörg Mansfeld

2013 until 2021: Group Leader (Cell Cycle) at BIOTEC                                                            since 2022: Team Leader at Institute of Cancer Research (ICR, UK).                                      New Website: https://www.icr.ac.uk/our-research/researchers-and-teams/dr-joerg-mansfeld

Ivan Minev

2016 to 2019: Group Leader for Electronic Tissue Technologies at BIOTEC
2019 to 2023: Professor for Intelligent Healthcare Technologies at the Department of Automatic Control and Systems Engineering at the University of Sheffield, UK.                Since 2023: Professor for Electronic Tissue Technologies at Leibniz-Institut für Polymerforschung Dresden
New Website: https://www.ipfdd.de/de/kommunikation/aktuelles/news-detailseite/newsitem/1986/

Daniel Müller

2002 to 2010: Professor for Cellular Machines at TU Dresden / BIOTEC
since 2010: Professor for Bionanotechnology at the ETHZ Department of Biosystems Science and Engineering (D-BSSE) in Basel
New Website: https://bsse.ethz.ch/biophysics/people/person-detail.MTcwMTk1.TGlzdC8yMjMzLDc3Mzk2ODA5OQ==.html

Erik Schäffer

from 2007 to 2014: Group Leader (Single Molecule Nanomechanics with Optical Tweezers) at BIOTEC
since 2014: Professor Cellular Nanoscience, Universität Tübingen.
New Website: https://uni-tuebingen.de/fakultaeten/mathematisch-naturwissenschaftliche-fakultaet/fachbereiche/zentren/zmbp/res/nano/

Petra Schwille

from 2002 to 2012: Professor for Biophysics at TU Dresden / BIOTEC
since 2011: Director at the Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry (MPIB).
New Website: http://www.biochem.mpg.de/en/rd/schwille/index.html

Ralf Seidel

2006 to 2012: Group Leader (Single molecule investigations of DNA motors) at BIOTEC
2013 to 2015: Professor for Single-molecule analysis, University of Münster                        2015 to 2026: Professor for Molecular Biophysics, University of Leipzig.
He passed away on July 17th, 2026.

Gilbert Weidinger

2006 to 2011: Group Leader (Wnt signaling and regeneration) at BIOTEC
since 2012: Associate Professor at the Institute for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Ulm.
New Website: https://www.uni-ulm.de/med/med-biomolbio/research-groups/weidinger/