Our Team

Benjamin Engel 🇺🇸
Principal Investigator

Wojciech Wietrzynski 🇵🇱
​Senior Scientist

Ricardo Righetto 🇧🇷
Senior Scientist

Manon Demulder 🇧🇪
Postdoc

Florent Waltz 🇫🇷
Postdoc

Annemarie Perez Boerema 🇩🇴​
Postdoc

Hugo van den Hoek 🇳🇱
Postdoc

​Caitie McCafferty 🇺🇸
Postdoc

Alicia Michael 🇺🇸
Postdoc  [Website]​

Sofie van Dorst 🇳🇱
Graduate Student

​Lorenz Lamm 🇩🇪​
Graduate Student

Sophie Baars 🇩🇪​
Graduate Student

Philippe Van der Stappen 🇨🇭
Graduate Student​

Simon Zufferey 🇨🇭
Bachelor Student​

Marie Glavier 🇫🇷
Visiting Scientist

Alumni

Adrian Müller 🇨🇭
Masters Rotation Student, 2022
now a Masters Student with Thomas Braun, Biozentrum

Lenka Buč​inská 🇨🇿
Visiting Scientist, 2021-2022
now a Postdoc with Roman Sobatka at Algatech, Trebon

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

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

Serena Flori 🇮🇹​
EMBO Short-Term Fellow, 2019
now a Postdoc with Giovanni Finazzi at CEA Grenoble

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

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

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