Current group members
![]() | Dunja Arsenijević visiting PhD student (since October 2025) ![]() | Model membrane study of the antimalarial activity of YAT2150 (collaboration with Xavier Fernández-Busquets and Yunuen Avalos, Nanomalaria group) |
![]() | Sakshi Barhai PhD student ComeInCell funding (since June 2025) ![]() | Exploring the impact of protein condensates on membrane resilience and repair mechanisms |
![]() | 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 |
![]() | Elias Sabri Postdoc (since April 2024) | Membrane poration and interaction with biomolecular condensates |
![]() | Clemens Schmitt Staff scientist; 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). |












