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Silviu-Vasile Bodea
Postdoctoral Fellow, Neuroimaging

Silviu is interested in combining optical methods with non-invasive modalities such as MRI and optoacoustic tomography to study distributed cerebral states.

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Alex Berezin
Ph.D. Student, Biological Engineering

Alex is interested in advancing Electron

Microscopy methods with molecular information.

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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 the genetic engineering of molecular reporter systems and gene editing techniques.

Felix Sigmund
Postdoctoral Fellow

Felix is interested in developing genetically encoded tools to enable molecular imaging, in particular with volume EM, and control techniques.

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Martin is working on computational analyses of -omics and molecular imaging data obtained from genetically engineered mammalian cells.

Martin Grosshauser
Ph.D. student, Data Sciences
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Gil Westmeyer
Prof. of Neurobiological Engineering

Gil is interested in the intersection of biological engineering and biomedicine, with a particular focus on neuroimaging and mammalian cell engineering.

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Anja Ammer
Lab Manager
& Research technician

Anja takes care of the various logistics of

the laboratory and contributes to

many experiments.

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Alberto Piovesan
Ph.D. Student, Biological Engineering

Alberto is focused on de novo design of proteinaceous nanostructures as high--resolution reporters and sensors. 

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Niklas Armbrust
Ph.D. Student, Biological Engineering 

Niklas is working on alternative genetic reporter methods to non-invasively read out cellular states. 

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Julian Geilenkeuser
Ph.D. Student, Biological Engineering

Julian is focused on genetically controlled interrogation methods and gene editing.

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.

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We are a long-term supporter of the Munich iGEM teams and hope to support a "non-virtual" team again soon.

Alumni

Postdoctoral Fellow

Currently: Postdoctoral Fellow at  Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e)

Dr. Mariia Efremova

Postdoctoral Fellow

Currently: Postdoctoral Fellow in Ed Boyden's

laboratory at MIT.

Dr. Panagiotis Symvoulidis

Postdoctoral Fellow

Currently: Lead biologist @Zebrafish Lab

Genetics & Rare Diseases Research Division  

Bambino Gesu' Children's Research Hospital

Dr. Antonella Lauri

Postdoctoral Fellow

Roche ​  

Dr. Giorgio Pariani

Postdoctoral Fellow

ONE LOGIC GmbH​​ 

Dr. Michele Cappetta

Graduate Student

Research Fellow, Massachusetts General Hospital

Dr. Yuanyuan Jiang

Graduate Student

Research associate at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, NYC, USA, Assistant Professor, Wayne State University

Dr. Sheryl Roberts

Graduate Student

 EarlyBird, Berlin, Germany

Dr. Christoph Massner

Graduate Student

Senior Editor @ Nature Communications

Dr. Ahne Myklatun

Graduate Student

Medical Manager, Gilead Sciences

Dr. Susanne Pettinger

Undergraduate Alumni

Susanne Pettinger

Master's student

Neha Lal Koonakampully

Master's student

Christoph Gruber

Master's student

Deniz Tümen

Master's student

Quirin Emslander

Master's student

Niklas Armbrust

Master's student

Dominic Schwarz

Master's student

Tobias Zeitler

Master's student

Bernhard Magerl

Master's student

Sofia Beliakova

Master's student

Martin Zirngibl

Bachelor's student

Eva Beck

Bachelor's student

Luisa Krumwiede

Bachelor's student

Enikö Baligács

Bachelor's student

Tobias Santl

Bachelor's student

Maren Beyer

Bachelor's student

Joschua Hesse

Bachelor's student

Thomas Scherbauer

Bachelor's student

Francesco Vaccaro

Bachelor's student

Richard Koll

Bachelor's student

Michaela Kaiser

Bachelor's student

Bianca Schoder

Bachelor's student

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