Team
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Director - Head of the Institute
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Prof. Carmen Ruiz de Almodóvar
Phone: +49 228 6885-303
Senior Scientist - Project Leader
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Sebastián Dupraz, PhD
Phone: +49 228 76363-811
Senior PostDoc
![Geza Schermann Geza Schermann](/site/assets/files/30355/schermann_geza.jpg.webp)
Geza Schermann, PhD
Phone: +49 228 6885-339
PostDoc
![Maria Isabel Alvarez Maria Isabel Alvarez](/site/assets/files/30356/alvarez_maria-isabel.jpg.webp)
Maria Isabel Alvarez, PhD
Phone: +49 228 76363-821
PostDoc
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Anne Emilia Korhonen, PhD
Phone: +49 621 383-1132
PostDoc
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Kishore A. Ravichandran
Phnoe: +49 228 76363-821
PostDoc
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Deniz Karabag
Phone: +49 228 6885-327
PhD Student
![Carla Florencia Ramunno Carla Florencia Ramunno](/site/assets/files/30360/ramunno_carla-florencia.jpg.webp)
Carla Ramunno
Phone: +49 228 76363-822
PhD Student
![Katharina Vucenovic Katharina Vucenovic](/site/assets/files/30352/vucenovic_katharina.jpg.webp)
Katarina Vucenovic
Phone: +49 228 6885-327
PhD Student
![Pallavi Pant Pallavi Pant](/site/assets/files/30359/pallavi_pant.jpg.webp)
Pallavi Pant
Phone.: +49 228 76363-821
PhD Student
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Hira Akmal
Phone: +49 228 6885-339
PhD Student
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Bohao Cui
Phone: +49 228 76363-822
PhD Student
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Manuel Mota Brea
Phone: +49 228 6885-327
Bachelor Student
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Natalia Acitores Rich
Lab Technician
![Tuan Pham-Anh Tuan Pham-Anh](/site/assets/files/30354/pham_anh-tuan.jpg.webp)
Anh Tuan Pham
Phone.: +49 228 6885-328
Lab assistant
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Niharika Kashyap
Phone: +49 228 6885-328
Lab assistant
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Disha Biswas
Phone: +49 228 6885-328
Assistant
![Irmtraud Peukert Irmtraud Peukert](/site/assets/files/30357/peukert_irmtraud.jpg.webp)
Irmtraud Peukert
Phone: +49 228 6885-302
Assistant
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Dr. Martina Franke
Phone +49 6221-54-5340
Alumni
- 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)
- 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 DKFZ (Heidelberg, 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: Field application scientist at Nanostring (Barcelona, Spain)
- Rosario Yerbes (Postdoc 02.2012 – 04.2015) - Current position: Senior postdoc at Cabimer (Sevilla, Spain)
- Patricia Himmels (PhD student 04.2013- 12.2017) - Current position: Postdoc at Genentech (San Francisco, USA)
- Xiaohong Wang (Postdoc 09.2013- 10.2018) - Current position: Full professor at Tianjin Medical University, China
- Severino Urban (PhD student 11.2011 – 03.2016) - Current position: Consultant QC advisor at Urban Quality Consulting (Germany)