Current group members
Rafaela Keller project manager (since November 2024) | Project manager of MSCA doctoral network ComeInCell | |
Cade Vallero Visiting undergrad student (since November 2024) | Membrane remodeling by atlastin (collaboration with Reinhard Lipowsky and Joachim Spatz) | |
Beatrice Leonardini Visiting Erasmus student (since October 2024) | Material properties of model membranes doped with nanoparticles (collaboration with Giulia Rossi and Annalisa Relini) | |
Elias Sabri Postdoc (since April 2024) FRANCE | 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). | |
Agustin Mangiarotti Alexander von Humboldt fellow (since July 2021) | Resolving the mechanism of membrane remodeling by liquid droplets | |
Nicky Tam PhD student, IMPRS fellow (since Sept 2020) | Message in a vesicle: Intercellular communication through extracellular vesicles (collaboration with Amaia Cipitria) | |
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 |