Our Team

Benjamin Engel 🇺🇸
Principal Investigator

Wojciech Wietrzynski 🇵🇱
​Senior Scientist

Ricardo Righetto 🇧🇷
Senior Scientist

Florent Waltz 🇫🇷
Abizione Group Leader

Manon Demulder 🇧🇪
Postdoc

Annemarie Perez Boerema 🇩🇴​
Postdoc

​Caitie McCafferty 🇺🇸
Postdoc

Davide Tamborrini 🇮🇹​
Postdoc  ​

Sofie van Dorst 🇳🇱
Graduate Student

Philippe Van der Stappen 🇨🇭
Graduate Student
Joint with Hondele Lab​

​Lorenz Lamm 🇩🇪​
Graduate Student
Joint with Peng Lab

Fanny Le Blanc 🇫🇷
Graduate Student

Daniil Litvinov 🇷🇺
Graduate Student
Join​t with Schwede Lab​

Mariia Melnik 🇷🇺
Graduate Student​

Simon Zufferey 🇨🇭
Graduate Student​

Jacquot Schiltz 🇱🇺
Master's Student​

Alumni

Lovisa Jonsson 🇸🇪
Bachelor summer student, 2024

Hugo van den Hoek 🇳🇱
Graduate student, 2016-2022
​Postdoc, 2022-2024

Alicia Michael 🇺🇸
Postdoc, 2023-2024
Assistant Professor at ISTA, Vienna 

Sophie Baars 🇩🇪​
Graduate Student, 2023-2024
Consultant at Randstad Life Sciences, Uppsala

Sabina Musial 🇵🇱
Visiting Scientist, 2023
PhD Student with Luke Mackinder at the Univ. of York​

Marie Glavier 🇫🇷
Visiting Scientist, 2022-2023
​Researcher with Emmanuel Bayer at the LBM Institute, Bordeaux

Adrian Müller 🇨🇭
Masters Rotation Student, 2022
Masters Student with Jürgen Plitzko at MPI Biochemistry, Munich

Lenka Buč​inská 🇨🇿
Visiting Scientist, 2021-2022
Researcher with Roman Sobotka at Algatech, Trebon

Jasemi Loukeri 🇬🇷
Masters Rotation Student, 2020
PhD Student with Elena Conti at MPI Biochemistry, Munich

Tilak Kumar Gupta 🇮🇳
Graduate Student, 2014-2020
Field Application Specialist at Beckman Coulter​

Serena Flori 🇮🇹​
EMBO Short-Term Fellow, 2019
Postdoc with Flora Vincent at EMBL Heidelberg

 Anna Rast 🇩🇪​
Postdoc, 2018-2019
Staff at the German Aerospace Center

Sahradha Albert 🇩🇪​
Graduate Student, 2015-2018
Consultant at the Boston Consulting Group

Luis Kuhn Cuellar 🇲🇽​
Graduate Student, 2014-2017
Bioinformatics Research Scientist at the University of Tübingen