Current group members
![]() | 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) |
![]() | Beatrice Leonardini Visiting Erasmus PhD 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 |
![]() | 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 |