PhD students

1. Birgit Pfalz (2012-2017), currently R&D IT Project Manager, Bayer, DE
2. Lucia Herrera-Dominguez (2012-2017), postdoc in Rasler lab (Crick/Berlin), currently Senior Associate Scientist, DSM Royal, NL
3. George Kritikos (2012-2017), currently Data Architect, European Food Safety Authority, IT
4. Anna Sueki (2015-2020), postdoc in Jenal lab (Basel Biozentrum), CH – Marie Curie Fellowship, currently …
5. Jacob Bobonis (2016-2022), currently postdoc in Polz lab (Universtiy of Vienna), AT – EMBO and HSFP fellowships
6. Philipp Walch (2017-2021), currently postdoc in Broz Lab (University of Lausanne), CH – EMBO and SNF fellowships
7. Elisabetta Cacace (2016-2022), currently postdoc in Sunagawa & Slack labs (ETH Zürich), CH – Novartis grant
8. Afonso Bravo (2018-2023, affiliated student – primary supervisor Jan-Willem Veening, University of Lausanne), currently at InnovPlantProject
9. Luoyan Yong (2019-2024), currently postdoc in Cress Lab (UC Berkeley), US
10. Nazgul Sakenova (2019-2024), currently postdoc in Bernhardt Lab (Harvard Medical School), US

Postdocs

1. Christina Pesavento (2012-2015, EMBO fellow), currently Scientific Referee at BMBF, DE
2. Manuel Banzhaf (2012-2018), currently PI at Newcastle University (Senior Lecturer), URKI Future Leader Fellow, UK
3. Ana Rita Brochado (2012-2018), currently PI at Tübingen University (tenure-track W3 professorship), DFG Emmy Noether, DE
4. Bachir El Debs (2013-2018, EMBO fellow), currently Director of High-Throughput Biologics at Lonza, CH
5. Mihaela Pruteanu (2013-2016, EIPOD fellow), currently Scientific Project Manager at TRON Mainz, DE
6. Alison Waller (2014-2016), currently at Brock University, CA
7. Joel Selkrig (2014-2021, EMBO & EIPOD fellow), currently PI at Aachen University (tenure-track W2 professorship), DE
8. Morgane Wartel (2014-2019, EMBO & Humboldt fellow), currently Senior Scientist at uniQure, NL
9. Lisa Maier (2015-2018, EIPOD fellow), currently PI at Tübingen University (W3 professor), DFG Emmy Noether & ERC StG, DE
10. Shahraz Mohammed (2016-2018), currently lab manager in Alexandrov lab, UCSD, US
11. André Mateus (2017-2021, EIPOD fellow), currently PI at Umea University, Wallenberg Academy Fellow & ERC StG,SE
12. Florian Huber (2017-2020, EIPOD fellow), currently Data Scientist and Software Engineer at DevOps, DE
13. Karin Mitosch (2017-2022, EIPOD fellow), currently Scientific Investigator at Cellzome, DE
14. Sarela Garcia-Santamarina (2018-2021, EIPOD fellow), currently PI at ITQB, PT
15. Camille Goemans (2018-2023, EMBO & Humboldt fellow), currently PI at EPFL, CH
16. Milka Hammaren (2018-2020), currently postdoc at Tampere University, FI
17. Vallo Varik (2018-2024), currently Director of Estonian biofoundry at Tartu University, EE

Affiliated postdocs

1. Melanie Tramontano (2012-2017, EIPOD fellow), currently Biological Safety Officer at DKFZ, Heidelberg, DE
2. Marco Galardini (2014-2019), currently PI at Twincore in Hannover University, DE
3. Haruna Imamura (2015-2019, EIPOD fellow), currently Research Scientist at the Systems Biology Institute, Tokyo, JP
4. Cris Viéitez (2016-2021), currently PI at IBFG in Salamanca University, Ramon y Cajal & ERC StG, ES
5. Bede Busby (2016-2020), currently Team Manager Bacteriology and Mycology for the Ministry for Primary Industries, NZ
6. Ruby Ponnudurai (2018-2023, EIPOD fellow), currently Editor at Review Commons, DE

Lab managers – Research Scientists

1. Matylda Zietek (2012-2021), currently Research Scientist at the Center for the High-Content Functional Annotation of Natural Products of UCSD, US
2. Anja Telzerow (2013-2017), currently Research Assistant at University Clinic Heidelberg, DE
3. Alexandra Koumoutsi (2018-2024), currently Head of Culturomics & Microbial Automation Facility at EMBL, Heidelberg, DE

Faculty visitors

1. KC Huang (2015, Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Award from Humboldt Foundation), Department of Bioengineering, Stanford University, US
2. Pascale Cossart (2022-2023), Pasteur Institute, FR
3. Yuping Li (2023), Basel Biozentrum, CH