Silviu-Vasile Bodea
Ph.D. Student, Life Sicence and technology
Silviu is interested in combining optical methods with non-invasive modalities such as MRI and optoacoustic tomography to study distributed cerebral states.
Alex Berezin
Ph.D. Student, Chemistry
Alex is interested in advancing Electron
Microscopy methods with molecular information.
Stefanie Winkler
Research Technician &
Graphic Designer
Stephanie is mainly involved in our Electron microscopy experiments and in graphic designs related to our work.
Dong-Jiunn Jeffery Truong
Postdoctoral Fellow
Jeff has a background in synthetic biology and has been a long-term advisor to the Munich iGEM teams. Jeff is focused on genetic and protein engineering of molecular reporter systems.
Felix Sigmund
Postdoctoral Fellow
Felix is interested in developing genetically encoded tools to enable non-invasive molecular imaging and control techniques
Mariia has a background in chemistry and biophysics and is interested in the synthesis and characterization of biomagnetic nanostructures with a wide range of analytical techniques.
Mariia Efremova
Postdoctoral Fellow
Gil Westmeyer
Prof. of Neurobiological Engineering
Gil is interested in the intersection of biological engineering and biomedicine with a particular focus on neuroimaging.
Anja Ammer
Lab Manager
& Research technician
Anja takes care of the various logistics of
the laboratory and contributes to
many experiments.
Alberto Piovesan
Ph.D. Student, Chemistry
Alberto is focused on de novo design of proteinaceous nanostructures as high--resolution reporters and sensors.
Niklas Armbrust
Ph.D. Student, Chemistry
Niklas is working on alternative genetic reporter methods to non-invasively read out cellular states.
We are looking for highly motivated scientists to join our team!
If you are interested in working with us, please write an email
describing your research interests & accomplishments
to Prof. Westmeyer.
We are a long-term supporter of the Munich iGEM teams and hope to support a "non-virtual" team again soon.