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Former Postdocs

Mrityunjoy Kar
2017-2023 ● Project leader at IPF in Dresden
Hiroyuki Uechi
2019-2023 ● Assistant professor at Tohoku university, Japan
Martine Ruer
2015-2023 ● Business Development Manager, Dresden
Patrick McCall
ELBE fellow and Hyman lab 2017-2023 ● Now project leader at IPF in Dresden
Sina Wittmann
2017-2023 ● Now group leader at IMB in Mainz
Anatol Fritsch
ELBE fellow and Hyman lab 2016-2023 ● Now Software Manager with Zeiss Meditec, Munich.
Adam Klosin
2017-2022 ● Now group leader, Nencki Institute, Warshaw, Poland
Mohamad Almedawar
2019-2021 ● Now Scientific Coordinator, TU-Dresden
Louise Jawerth
2013-2021 ● Now Assistant professor at the University of Leiden, Netherlands
Jessica Bellmann
Now Postdoc at the Falkenburger lab, University Clinic Dresden
Shovamayee Maharana
Joint with Alberti lab 2013-2020 ● Now Assistant professor and lab head, IISC, Bangalore
Amayra Hernández-Vega
2013-2020 ● Now Ramón y Cajal Researcher, IBEC, Barcelona
Emmanouela Filippidi
2019-2020 ● Now Assistant Professor, lab head and Max Planck partner group
Jie Wang
2015-2020 ● Now postdoc with Rick Young at the Whitehead institute, MIT, Boston
Avinash Patel
2013-2019 ● Head Exploratory Condensate Science at Dewpoint Therapeutics GmbH, Dresden, Germany
Edgar Boczek
2015-2019 ● Manager Unternehmensführung bei Delta Automation GmbH
Shamba Saha
2012-2018 ● Now group leader at IMBA, Vienna
Xiaojie Zhang
2017-2018 ● Postdoc with Julia Mahamid, EMBL Heidelberg , now assistant professor at ShanghaiTech University
Stephanie Spannl-Müller
2016-2018 ● Now Research Scientist, Pattern Biosciences, Switzerland
Hyun Kate Lee
2011-2017 ● Now Assistant Professor, University of Toronto
Jeff Woodruff
2011-2017 ● Now Assistant Professor, University of Texas, Southwestern
Mark Leaver
2009-2017 ● Now Medical Content Developer at Cast Pharma
Richard Wheeler
2014-2015 ● Now group leader with Sir Henry Dale Fellowship, University of Oxford, England
Julia Mahamid
Hyman lab and Baumeister lab: 2011-2017 ● Now group leader at [EMBL],(https://www.embl.de/research/units/scb/mahamid/) Heidelberg
Elisabeth Fischer-Friedrich
2011-2016 ● Now Group leader at the Cluster of Excellence Physics of Life, TU Dresden
Michael Kuhn
2012-2016 ● Research Scientist in Peer Bork’s group at the EMBL, Heidelberg
Per Widlund
2007-2014 ● Now Researcher, University of Gothenburg, Sweden
Yusuke Toyoda
2006-2014 ● Now Research Associate, Institute of Life Science, Kurume University, Japan
Simone Reber
2008-2014 ● Now Group leader at the MPI for Infection Biology and professor at the BHT Berlin
Zoltan Maliga
2005-2013 ● Senior Scientist, Harvard Medical School
Jay Gopalakrishnan
Hyman Lab 2012 ● Professor for Cell Biology the University of Jena, and lab head
Alex Bird
2004-2012 ● Now Project Leader Drug Discovery, Silence Therapeutics, Berlin
Nate Goehring
2006-2012 ● Now Group Leader, The Francis Crick Institute, London
Ariane Dimitrov
2009-2012 ● Now Project portfolio manager, L’Oreal, France
Cliff Brangwynne
2007-2010 ● Now Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Princeton University
Mihail Sarov
2007-2008 ● Now Technology Development Group Leader, MPI-CBG, Dresden
Thomas Müller-Reichert
2001-2007 ● Now Professor and Group Leader, Medical Theoretical Center Dresden
Laurence Pelletier
2002-2007 ● Now Principle Investigator, Samuel Lunenfeld Research Institute
Alexandru Tudor Constantinescu
2002-2006 ● Now Managing Director and lab head, Spezialklinik Neukirchen
Martin Srayko
2000-2006 ● Now Associate Professor, University of Alberta
Carrie Cowan
2001-2006 ● Now Director for Education, Santa Fe Institute
Kazuhisa Kinoshita
1998-2006 ● Now Senior Research Scientist, RIKEN Advanced Science Institute, Hirano lab
Jeff Stear
2004-2006 ● Now Researcher, UNSW Sydney
Sophie Quintin
2001-2006 ● Now Researcher, Institute of Genetics and Molecular and Cellular Biology
Fedor Severin
1993-2002 ● Now Group Leader, MSU, Moscow
Arshad Desai
1998-2002 ● Now group leader and Professor, University of California, San Diego.
Karen Oegema
1998-2001 ● Now group leader and Professor, University of California, San Diego
Isabelle Arnal
1998-2000 ● Now Research Team Director, Institut des Neurosciences de Grenoble
Pierre Gönczy
1998-2000 ● Group leader and Professor, EPFL, Lausanne
Christoph Echeverri
1998-2000 ● Founder of Cenix Biosciences, now CEO of InukshukBio LLC
Michael Glotzer
1993-1997 ● Now group leader and Professor, University of Chicago
Tony Ashford
Postdoc at EMBL and Dresden

Former PhD Students

Cecile Jegers
Now a Scientist with Genmab, Utrecht, Netherlands
Maria Begasse
Chief Operating Officer PoL | Physics of Life
Mark van Breugel
Lecturer School of Biological and Chemical Sciences, Queen Mary University of London
Henrik Bringmann
Professor Research Campus of Central Hessen (RCCH, now BIOTEC, Dresden
Andres Diaz Delgadillo
Associate Consultant Universitätsklinikum Hamburg Eppendorf
Markus Decker
Global Head Search & Evaluation Oncology Simcere Pharmaceutical Group
Martin Dressler
Team Lead Regulatory Compliance Vetter Pharma-Fertigung GmbH & Co. KG, Ravensburg
Beatriz Gomes
Principal Scientist Dewpoint Therpeutics GmbH
Steffen Jaensch
Data Scientist Johnson & Johnson, Beerse, Belgium
Garrett Greenan
Imaging Scientist Chan Zuckerberg initiative
Stephan Grill
Professor Biotechnology Center, TU Dresden, now director at MPI-CBG
Eva Hannak
Patent Agent Morrison & Foerster LLP
Natasha Lewis
Project coordinator, University clinic TU-Dresden, Germany. 
Tim Noetzel
Manager Roche Diagnostics, Munich
Nurhan Özlü
Associate Professor Koç University, Istanbul
Silke Pichler
Athlete & Personal Trainer
Stefanie Redemann
Assistant Professor University of Virginia, Charlottesville
Anne-Lore Schlaitz
Group Leader, BZH, University of Heidelberg
Stephanie Schonegg
Team Leader Clinical Research Biotronik SE & Co KG
Martin Stewart
Research Group Leader & Lecturer in Life / Medical Sciences University of Technology Sydney
Regis Tournebize
Scientist Institut Pasteur, Paris
Oliver Wüseke
2010-2015 ● Chief Of Staff Mantra Bio
Ingrid Sassoon
1994-1998 ● Now Cluster Head of Immuno-Oncology Research at Sanofi
Jobin Gharakhani
2008-2014 PhD Student working with Cliff Brangwynne and Frank Jülicher, MPI-PKS. ● Back in the US

Former Staff Scientists

Annett Dümmler
Former Staff Scientist ● Now Business Development Manager at Merck
Ina Poser
2004-2019 Former Staff Scientist ● Now a Principal Scientist – Dresden HTS Lead, DewPoint Therapeutics

Former Masters Students

Arsenii Hordeichyk
2021-2022 Masters Student ● Now PhD student in the Bausch lab, TU Munich.
Jennifer Yen
2007-2008 Masters Student ●

Former Research Assistants

Tanya Jarrett
Former Research Assistant ● Now nutritional therapist.

Former Technicians

Mathew Kirkham
2000-2002 Research Technician in the lab at the EMBL, Heidelberg ●
Marit Leuschner
Technician until 2019 ● Now in the Anne Grapin Botton lab at the MPI-CBG
Mai Thuong Pha
Technician Mitocheck/Mitosys project ● Now in Vietnam.
Andrea Ssykor
Technician Mitocheck/Mitosys project, now Senior research associate, DewPoint Therapeutics

Former Research Interns

Jana Sipkova
2015-2016 Research Intern ● Now a PhD student in the Franze lab, Cambridge, UK
Philipp Schenk
2013-2014 Research Intern ● Now a joint PhD Student in the labs of Prof David Komander and Dr Bekky Feltham at the WEHI, Australia.
Constance Richter
2004-2005 Research Intern ● Postdoc Molecular Neurobiology, Harvard.