Current group members
 | Matilde Becheroni PhD student ComeInCell funding (since March 2025)  | Light-driven exocytosis of synthetic cells encapsulating condensates |
 | Rafaela Keller project manager (since November 2024)   | Project manager of MSCA doctoral network ComeInCell |
 | Cade Vallero Visiting Master student (since November 2024)  | Membrane remodeling by atlastin (collaboration with Reinhard Lipowsky and Joachim Spatz) |
 | Elias Sabri Postdoc (since April 2024)  | Membrane poration and interaction with biomolecular condensates |
 | Clemens Schmitt Staff scientist at the Biomaterials Department (since June 2023) | Support for microscopy facilities |
 | Tsu-Wang Sun PhD student UniSysCat funding (since Jan 2023)  | Gauging membrane tension and channel activity with light (within the framework of UniSysCat) |
  | Matilde Accorsi PhD student ONR funding (since Sept 2022) | Bottom-up nanowiring in primitive neural networks via tubulation |
 | Kita Schmidt Visiting PhD student, IMPRS fellow (since Dec 2021) | Sculpting the membrane: control of membrane organization by septins (cosupervision with Helge Ewers). |
 | Mina Aleksanyan PhD student, IMPRS fellow (since Oct 2019) MSc student (June 2018 – June 2019)  | Controlling transmembrane transport by light (in collaboration with Joachim Heberle); Deformation and electroporation of model membranes and cell-derived vesicles More about Mina’s defense and papers |