Team
Prof. Dr. Dominik Niopek
Professor & Head of Department
dominik.niopek@uni-heidelberg.de
Research Interest: Protein Engineering, Synthetic Biology, CRISPR
Hobbies: Hiking, Reading, Annoying neighbors by playing drums
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Dr. Jan Mathony
Junior Group Leader
Research Interest: Switchable Proteins, Allostery, CRISPR
Hobbies: Hiking, Photography, Music
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Dr. Holger Schäfer
Student Counselor, Teacher
Research Interest: Molecular and cell biology
Hobbies: Watching movies in an oldfashioned theatre, Listening to baseball broadcasts (Go Giants), Death Valley hiking
Dr. Cornelius Domhan
Study Program Manager, Student Counselor, Teacher
Research Interest: Antibiotics
Hobbies: Burg Hohenrechberg, Furnologie
Mirjam Ehler
Personal Assistant
Hedwig Sauer-Gürth
Technical Assistant
Heidi Staudter
Technical Assistant
Research Interest: Supporting the group
Hobbies: Botany, Birding
Sabine Aschenbrenner
Technical Assistant
Research Interest: Launching into a cosmic odyssey, where experimentation becomes an art form, sculpted through the eternal dance of time and quality optimization
Hobbies: Elder Scrolls Online
Luca Brenker
Ph.D. Student
Research Interest: Transcriptional/Translational Regulation, CRISPR, Endogenous Sensors
Hobbies: Hiking, Cooking, Triathlon
Nicholas Southern
Ph.D. Student
Research Interest: Protein Engineering, Bacteriophages, Retrons
Hobbies: Traveling, Music, Video Games
Benedict Wolf
Ph.D. Student
Research Interest: ML, Protein Engineering, Computational Biology
Hobbies: Photography, Bouldering, FPV drones
Ann-Sophie Kröll
Ph.D. Student
Research Interest: Genome Editing, Protein Engineering, Protein Switches
Hobbies: Quidditch, Basketball
Pegi Shehu
Ph.D. Student
Research Interest: iPS, Protein Design & Engineering, Antibodies, Immunology
Hobbies: Reading, Singing, Coffee time, Traveling
Paul Kittner
Master Student, MobiTech
Research Interest: ML in Protein Design, Methods Development, Computational Biology
Hobbies: Bouldering, Chess, Competitive Programming
Paul Brunner
Student Intern, MoBiTech
Research Interest: Machine-learning in Protein Design, MD Simulation
Hobbies: Cycling, Video Games and Coffee
Simon Westermann
Student Intern, MoBiTech
Research Interest: Genome Editing, Protein Engineering, Protein Evolution
Hobbies: Running, Gaming
Georgi Georgiev
Student intern
Research Interest: Protein Engineering, Machine Learning in Drug Development, Cancer research
Hobbies: Dancing, Swimming, Gaming
Kira Hoffmann
Student Intern, MoBiTech
Research Interest: Protein Engineering, Thermal Protein Switches
Hobbies: Reading, Volleyball, Puzzles
Tobias Kreusel
Bachelor Student, MoBiTech
Research Interest: Protein Engineering, Computational Biology, Split Proteins
Hobbies: Hiking, Gaming
Enno Schäfer
Bachelor Student, MoBiTech
Research Interest: Protein Engineering, ML, Neuroscience
Hobbies: Roundnet, Travelling
Alexa Weikert
Bachelor Student, MoBiTech
Research Interest: Protein Engineering, Protein Switches, CRISPR
Hobbies: dancing, fashion, art, coffee with friends
Lena Koch
Bachelor Student, MoBiTech
Research Interest: Protein Engineering, CRISPR, Genome Architecture
Hobbies: Reading, Art, Scuba Diving, Travel Adventures
Marik Müller
Bachelor Student, MoBiTech
Research Interest: Protein engineering, directed evolution, expanded genetic code
Hobbies: Hiking, Volleyball, Violin
Nele Pascale Happ
Bachelor Student, MobiTech
Research Interest: Genome Editing, Thermal Protein Switches
Hobbies: Swimming, Hiking, Reading
Alisa Hovsepyan
Bachelor Student, MoBiTech
Research Interest: Machine Learning, Protein Engineering, Bioinformatics
Hobbies: Playing the guitar, reading, visiting classical concerts
David Noé
Bachelor Student, Biomedicine & Bioinformatics UZH
Research Interest: Regulation of CRISPR, Ribozymes
Hobbies: Home-Barista, Indie-Music & Drumming, Kitesurfing, Reading
Alumni
- Frido Petersen (B.Sc. thesis, Intern)
- Laura Lange (Intern)
- Gyu Min Hwang (Intern)
- Philip Kaspar (Intern)
- Nikolas Motzkus (Intern)
- Diana Krasnokutskaya (Pre-registration Pharmacist)
- Marie-Louise Griebl (Intern)
- Anna von Bachmann (Intern)
- Nina Lemmen (Intern)
- Cedric Marquard (B.Sc. Thesis)
- Merlin Marquard (B.Sc. Thesis)
- Joshua Eigenmann (Intern)
- Felicitas Vogd (Intern)
- Dr. Pinku Sarmah (Post-doc)
- Kaloyan Staykov (Pre-registration Pharmacist)
- Dustin Schilling (Intern)
- Michelle Emmert (Intern)
- Lennart Dignas (Intern)
- Dario Andrea Prifti (HiWi)
- Stefanie Grosse (Post-doc)
- Mareike D. Hoffmann (PhD student)
- Philipp Münch (B.Sc. thesis, M.Sc. thesis)
- Philipp Becker (B.Sc. thesis)
- Melis Kazandöven (B.Sc. thesis)
- Klara Eisenhauer (Intern)
- Jan Birkel (B.Sc. thesis)
- Janus Kröner (B.Sc. thesis, Biomol. engineering, TU Darmstadt)
- Tobias Stadelmann (B.Sc. thesis)
- Dustin Zielinski (B.Sc. thesis)
- Felix Bubeck (M.Sc. thesis)
- Niklas Urbanek (B.Sc. thesis)
- Michael Jendrusch (M.Sc. thesis)
- Daniel Heid (M.Sc. thesis)
- Stefan Holderbach (Intern)
- Adrian Huck (Intern)
- Andreas Bietz (M.Sc. thesis)
- Hendrik Landerer (M.Sc. thesis)
- Christina Stengl (Intern)
- Thore Bürgel (Intern)
- Judith Notbohm (Intern)
- Julia Botta (B.Sc. thesis)
- Stefanie Reisenauer (Intern)
- Laura Dietz (Intern)
- Manuel Mastel (Intern)
- Sara Dionisi (Intern)
- Max Waldhauer (Intern)
- Clarissa Schäfer (HiWi)
- Carolin Gebhardt (PhD Student)
- Alexander Pattberg (M.Sc. Thesis)
- Jan Kalkowski (Intern)
- Luis Hauptmann (B.Sc. thesis)
- Juliane Rohland (Intern)
- Maximilian Fidlin (HiWi)