Team


Director - Head of the Institute

Prof. Carmen Ruiz de Almodóvar
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Phone: +49 228 287-62303
Senior Scientist - Project Leader

Sebastián Dupraz, PhD
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Phone: +49 228 287-63811
Senior PostDoc

Geza Schermann, PhD
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Phone: +49 228 287-63810
PostDoc

Bohao Cui
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Phone: +49 228 287-63822
PostDoc

Maria Isabel Alvarez, PhD
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Phone: +49 228 287-63821
PostDoc

Sara Rojas Vázquez
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Phone: +49 228 287-62328
PhD Student

Carla Ramunno
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PhD Student

Katarina Vucenovic
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Phone: +49 228 287-62327
PhD Student

Pallavi Pant
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PhD Student

Manuel Mota Brea
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PhD Student

Maria Laura Serradas Aponte
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PhD Student

Rohit Sundar
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PhD Student

Marco Pedrotti
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Lab Technician

Anh Tuan Pham
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Lab Technician

Andrea Jäger
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Lab Technician

Jakob Hoffmann
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Research Assistant

Lea Kühnel
Student Assistant

Neelam Bhattarai
Student Assistant and Master Student

Jyotsana Bidaliya
Student Assistant and Master Student

Hannah Meyer
Assistant

Irmtraud Peukert
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Assistant

Dr. Martina Franke
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Phone +49 6221-54-5340
Alumni
- Kishore Aravind Ravichandran (Post Doc 05.2023 - 06.2026) – Current position: Project Scientist at Phalanx Neuro (Hannover, Germany)
- Deniz Karabag (Post Doc 09.2023 - 06.2026) – Current position: Trainee Patent Attorney at Hoffmann Eitle (Düsseldorf, Germany)
Anne Emilia Korhonen (PostDoc 2021 - 2026) – Current position: Junior Group Leader at Wihuri Research Institute (Helsinki, Finland)
Jose Ricardo da Cruz Vieira (PhD student, 03.2018 – 06.2023) – Current position: Postdoc at Roche (Basel, Switzerland)
- Andromachi Karakatsani (Postdoc, 05.2015-02.2023) – Current position: Senior postdoc at ETH (Zürich, Switzerland)
- Bhavin Shah (Postdoc, 01.2018-04.2023) - Current position: Senior postdoc at the European Center for Angioscience, Uni. Heidelberg (Mannheim,Germany)
- Nathalie Tisch (PhD student & Postdoc, 04.2014-01.2022) – Current position: Senior postdoc at ETH (Zürich, Switzerland)
- Robert Luck (PhD student & Postdoc, 2012-09.2021) – Current position: Senior postdoc at the European Center for Angioscience, Uni. Heidelberg (Mannheim,Germany)
- Isidora Paredes (PhD student, 08.2013-01.2022) – Current position: Senior postdoc at MPI (Münster, Germany)
- Aida Freire-Valls (PhD student, 11.2013-02.2019) – Current position: Single Cell solution architect, BD Biosciences (Barcelona, Spain)
- Rosario Yerbes (Postdoc 02.2012 – 04.2015) - Current position: Senior scientist at Universidad de Sevilla (Sevilla, Spain)
- Patricia Himmels (PhD student 04.2013- 12.2017) - Current position: Clinical Research associate, Novartis (Germany)
- Xiaohong Wang (Postdoc 09.2013- 10.2018) - Current position: Full professor at Tianjin Medical University, (Tianjin, China)
- Severino Urban (PhD student 11.2011 – 03.2016) - Current position: Consultant QC advisor at Formycon AG (Germany)















