Group Members

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