Team
 
				     		
				  		
		  			
		  			
				Prof. Dr. Birte Höcker
E-mail: birte.hoecker[at]uni-bayreuth.de
Phone: +49 (0)921 / 55-7845
Building: NW III, room: 1.43
- MPI Developmental Biology, Tübingen
- Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC, USA
- Dr.rer.nat. (Biochemistry), Universität zu Köln
- Diplom in Biology, Universität Göttingen
 
				     		
				  		
		  			
		  			
				Gabriele Kassler
Secretariat
E-mail: gabi.kassler[at]uni-bayreuth.de
Phone: +49 (0)921 / 55-7831
Building: NW III, room: 1.41
 
				     		
				  		
		  			
		  			
				Ina Dietel
Secretariat
E-mail: ina.dietel[at]uni-bayreuth.de
Phone: +49 (0)921 / 55-7831
Building: NW III, room: 1.41
Technical staff
 
				     		
				  		
		  			
		  			
				Sabrina Wischt
E-mail: sabrina1.wischt[at]uni-bayreuth.de
Phone: +49 (0)921 / 55-7853
Building: NW III, room: 1.12/1.13
 
				     		
				  		
		  			
		  			
				Norbert Grillenbeck
E-mail: norbert.grillenbeck[at]uni-bayreuth.de
Phone: +49 (0)921 / 55-7856
Building: NW III, room: 1.13
 
				     		
				  		
		  			
		  			
				Tristan Mühlbauer
E-mail: tristan.muehlbauer[at]uni-bayreuth.de
Phone: +49 (0)921 / 55-7852
Building: NW III, room: 1.12/1.13
Post-Docs
 
				     		
				  		
		  			
		  			
				Dr. Vanessa Troßmann
E-mail: vanessa.trossmann[at]uni-bayreuth.de
Phone: +49 (0)921 / 55-7886
Building: NW III, room: 2.26
- Ph.D in Biochemistry, Universtät Bayreuth
- M.Sc. in Biochemistry, Universität Bayreuth
- B.Sc. in Biochemistry, Universität Bayreuth
 
				     		
				  		
		  			
		  			
				Dr. Mark Kriegel
E-mail: mark.kriegel[at]uni-bayreuth.de
Phone: +49 (0)921 / 55-7838
Building: NW III, room: 1.42
- PhD in Life Science Engineering, FAU Erlangen
- M.Sc. in Life Science Engineering, FAU Erlangen
- B.Sc. in Life Science Engineering, FAU Erlangen
 
				     		
				  		
		  			
		  			
				Dr. Carolina Jerez-Longres
E-mail: carolina.jerez-longres[at]uni-bayreuth.de
Phone: +49 (0)921 / 55-7888
Building: NW III, room: 1.49
- Ph.D. in Biology, University of Freiburg
- M.Sc. Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of Freiburg
- B.Sc. in Biochemistry, University of Granada
PhD Students
 
				     		
				  		
		  			
		  			
				Julian Beck
E-mail: julian.beck[at]uni-bayreuth.de
Phone: +49 (0)921 / 55-7915
Building: NW III, room: 1.49
- M. Sc. in Biochemistry at University Bayreuth
- B. Sc. in Biochemistry at University Bayreuth
 
				     		
				  		
		  			
		  			
				Olive Laprevote
E-mail: olive.laprevote[at]uni-bayreuth.de
Phone: +49 (0)921 / 55-7878
Building: NW III, room: 2.29
- M. Sc. in Structural Biology and Bioinformatics at University of Strasbourg
- B. Sc. in Biotechnology at ESBS (Ecole Superieure de Biotechnologie Strasbourg)
 
				     		
				  		
		  			
		  			
				Anna Zink
E-mail: anna.zink[at]uni-bayreuth.de
Phone: +49 (0)921 / 55-7877
Building: NW III, room: 2.29
- M. Sc. in Biochemistry at University Bayreuth
- B. Sc. in Biochemistry at University Bayreuth
 
				     		
				  		
		  			
		  			
				Jakob Noske
E-mail: jakob.noske[at]uni-bayreuth.de
Phone: +49 (0)921 / 55-7889
Building: NW III, room: 2.25
- M. Sc. in Biochemistry at University Bayreuth
- B. Sc. in Biochemistry at University Bayreuth
 
				     		
				  		
		  			
		  			
				Andreas Gagsteiger
E-mail: andreas.gagsteiger[at]uni-bayreuth.de
Phone: +49 (0)921 / 55-7833
Building: NW III, room: 1.47
- M. Sc. in Biochemistry at University Bayreuth
- B. Sc. in Biochemistry at University Bayreuth
 
				     		
				  		
		  			
		  			
				Johanna-Sophie Koch
E-mail: johanna-sophie.koch[at]uni-bayreuth.de
Phone: +49 (0)921 / 55-7886
Building: NW III, room: 2.26
- M. Sc. in Biochemistry at University Bayreuth
- B. Sc. in Biochenmistry at University Bayreuth
 
				     		
				  		
		  			
		  			
				Katharina Bachschwöller
E-mail: katharina.bachschwoeller[at]uni-bayreuth.de
Phone: +49 (0)921 / 55-7886
Building: NW III, room: 2.26
- M. Sc. in Biochemistry at University Bayreuth
- B. Sc. in Biology at University Bayreuth
 
				     		
				  		
		  			
		  			
				Boje Ingwersen
E-mail: boje.ingwersen[at]uni-bayreuth.de
Phone: +49 (0)921 / 55-7878
Building: NW III, room: 2.29
- M. Sc. in Biology at Kiel University
- B. Sc. in Biology at Kiel University
 
				     		
				  		
		  			
		  			
				Onur Turak
E-mail: onur.turak[at]uni-bayreuth.de
Phone: +49 (0)921 / 55-7887
Building: NW III, room: 2.26
- M. Sc. in Molecular Life Science at Universität zu Lübeck
- B. Sc. in Molecular Life Science at Universität zu Lübeck
 
				     		
				  		
		  			
		  			
				Alexander E. Braun
E-mail: alexander.e.braun[at]uni-bayreuth.de
Phone: +49 (0)921 / 55-7833
Building: NW III, room: 1.47
- M. Sc. in Biochemistry at University Bayreuth
- B. Sc. in Biochemistry at University Bayreuth
 
				     		
				  		
		  			
		  			
				Marc Scherer
E-mail: marc.scherer[at]uni-bayreuth.de
Phone: +49 (0)921 / 55-7877
Building: NW III, room: 2.29
- Fleishman lab, Dep. of Biomolecular Sciences, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel
- M. Sc. in Biochemistry, University of Würzburg
- B. Sc. in Biochemistry, University of Würzburg
Master Students
 
				     		
				  		
		  			
		  			
				Thibaud Lepoivre 
E-mail: thibaud.lepoivre[at]uni-bayreuth.de
Phone: +49 (0)921 / 55-7888
Building: NW III, room: 2.25
- M. Sc. studies in Bioinformatics, University of Sciences of Nantes
- B. Sc. in Life Sciences, University of Sciences of Nantes
 
				     		
				  		
		  			
		  			
				Tobias Wilhelm 
E-mail: tobias.wilhelm[at]uni-bayreuth.de
Phone: +49 (0)921 / 55-7815
Building: NW III, room: 1.49
- M. Sc. studies in Biochemistry, University Bayreuth
- B. Sc. in Biology, University Bayreuth
 
				     		
				  		
		  			
		  			
				Max Burkhard
E-mail: Max.Burkhard[at]uni-bayreuth.de
Phone: +49 (0)921 / 55-78
Building: NW III, room:
- M. Sc. studies in Biochemistry, University Bayreuth
- B. Sc. in Biology, University Bayreuth
Bachelor Students
 
				     		
				  		
		  			
		  			
				Yannik Schroeder
E-mail: yannik.schroeder[at]uni-bayreuth.de
Phone: +49 (0)921 / 55-7833
Building: NW III, room: 1.47
- B. Sc. studies in applied Informatics, University Bayreuth
 
				     		
				  		
		  			
		  			
				Philipp Wenger
E-mail: Philipp.Wenger[at]uni-bayreuth.de
Phone: +49 (0)921 / 55-7853
Building: NW III, room: 1.12
- B. Sc. studies in biochemistry, University Bayreuth
 
				     		
				  		
		  			
		  			
				Tamara Fenzl
E-mail: Tamara.fenzl[at]uni-bayreuth.de
Phone: +49 (0)921 / 55-78
Building: NW III, room: 1.12
- B. Sc. studies in biochemistry, University Bayreuth
 
				     		
				  		
		  			
		  			
				Michael Fuchs
E-mail: Michael.Fuchs[at]uni-bayreuth.de
Phone: +49 (0)921 / 55-7853
Building: NW III, room: 1.12
- B. Sc. studies in biochemistry, University Bayreuth
Guests, HiWis
Maric Schultheiß
E-mail: maric.schultheiss[at]uni-bayreuth.de
Phone: +49 (0)921 / 55-7852
Building: NW III, room: 1.12/1.13
- B. Sc. in Biochemistry, University Bayreuth
Alumni
	
|   Technical staff | |
| Sooruban Shanmugaratnam | 2007 to 2024 - now at CeGat (Tübingen) | 
| 
 PostDocs | |
| Dr. Sergio Romero-Romero | 2019 to 2024 - now professor at Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico (Link) | 
| Dr. Surbhi Dhingra | 2020 to 2023 - now at BASF Belgium | 
| Dr. Guto Rhys | 2019 to 2022 - now lecturer in Biological Chemistry at Cardiff University, Rhys lab (Link) | 
| Dr. Florian Gisdon | 2019 to 2022 - now PostDoc at University Frankfurt | 
| Dr. Abhishek Anan Jalan | 2017 to 2022 - now group leader at University of Bayreuth | 
| Dr. Noelia Ferruz | 2016 to 2022 - now group leader at CRG Barcelona, Ferruz lab (Link) | 
| Dr. Horst Lechner | 2016 to 2019 - now group leader at TU Graz (Link) | 
| Dr. Felix Schwägerl | 2018 - now Professor Global Software Engineering at OTH Regensburg | 
| Dr. Bruce Lichtenstein | 2013 to 2018 - now Senior Research Fellow at University Portsmouth (Link) | 
| Dr. Nils Woetzel | 2012 to 2014 - now Software developer at Bruker BioSpin | 
| Dr. André-Christian Stiel | 2011 to 2015 - now group leader at Helmholtz Zentrum München & Prof at University Regensburg, Stiel lab (Link) | 
| 
 PhD Students | |
| Lukas Hassine | 2025 (Bayreuth) | 
| Merve Ayyildiz | 2025 (Bayreuth) | 
| Josef Kynast | 2024 (Bayreuth) - Postdoc at UBT - now staff scientist IT at UBT | 
| Pascal Kröger | 2023 (Bayreuth) - Postdoc at UBT - now at Bayer (Wuppertal) | 
| Sebastian Weigert | 2022 (Bayreuth) - now at Vector BioPharma AG | 
| Florian Michel | 2022 (Bayreuth) - now at Wacker (Halle) | 
| Sina Kordes | 2022 (Bayreuth) - now at Proteros Biostructures GmbH | 
| Francisco Lobos | 2022 (Tübingen) | 
| Saacnicteh Toledo-Patino | 2019 (Tübingen) - Postdoc at Okinawa Institute for Science and Technology, now group leader at OIST | 
| Kaspar Feldmeier | 2016 (Tübingen) - Postdoc at UBT - now at Hoffmann Eitle Patentanwälte, München | 
| Jose Arcadio Farias Rico | 2014 (Tübingen) - Postdoc at Stockholm University - now Assistant Professor at Center for Genomic Sciences UNAM, Mexico, Farias lab (Link) | 
| Christoph Malisi | 2012 (Tübingen) - now Scientific Analyst at Computomics, Tübingen | 
| Simone Eisenbeis | 2012 (Tübingen) - now Coordinator of studies at Medizinische Kliniken Tübingen | 
| Bettina Rohweder (néé Schreier) | 2010 (Tübingen) - Research Associate at Universität Regensburg | 
| Master & Diplom Students | |
| Maxim Janzen | Master (research module) in Biochemistry 2025 (Bayreuth) | 
| Timo Kossendey | Master in Biochemistry 2024 (Bayreuth) | 
| Emily Freund | Master in Biochemistry 2024 (Bayreuth) | 
| Alexander Braun | Master in Biochemistry 2023 (Bayreuth) | 
| Kim Wagner | Master (research module) in Biochemistry 2023 (Bayreuth) | 
| Linlin Qiao | Master (research module) in Biochemistry 2023 (Bayreuth) | 
| Julian Krumm | Master in Biochemistry 2023 (Bayreuth) | 
| Johanna-Sophie Koch | Master in Biochemistry 2023 (Bayreuth) | 
| Katharina Lamm | Master in Biochemistry 2023 (Bayreuth) | 
| Nina Lang | Master (research module) in Biochemistry 2022 (Bayreuth) | 
| Andreas Gagsteiger | Master in Biochemistry 2022 (Bayreuth) | 
| Jakob Noske | Master in Biochemistry 2022 (Bayreuth) | 
| Anna Zink | Master in Biochemistry 2022 (Bayreuth) | 
| Lucas Carnell | Master (research module) in Biochemistry 2022 (Bayreuth) | 
| Julia Schedel | Master (research module) in Biochemistry 2020 (Bayreuth) | 
| Merle Flecks | Master (research module) in Biochemistry 2020 (Bayreuth) | 
| Markus Averbeck | Master in Biochemistry 2020 (Bayreuth) - now PhD work at Uni Greifswald | 
| Vincent R. Emann | Master in Biochemistry 2019 (Bayreuth) | 
| Dominik Lemm | Master in Biochemistry 2019 (Bayreuth) - now PhD work at Uni Basel | 
| Laura Meißner | Master in Biochemistry 2018 (Bayreuth) - now PhD work at TU Dresden | 
| Julian Hübner | Master in Biochemistry 2018 (Bayreuth) - now PhD work at Uni Regensburg | 
| Pascal Kröger | Master in Biochemistry 2018 (Bayreuth) - now PhD work at UBT | 
| Felix Franz Hecke | Master in Biochemistry 2018 (Bayreuth) | 
| Marvin Hönle | Master in Biochemistry 2018 (Bayreuth) - now PhD work at UBT | 
| Gregor Jonas Wiese | Master in Biochemistry 2016 (Tübingen) - now informatics studies at U. Tü | 
| Simon Prisner | Diploma in Biophysics 2013 (TU Kaiserslautern & MPI Tü) - PhD HU Berlin - now at McKinsey | 
| Saacnicteh Toledo Patino | Diploma in Biochemistry 2013 (Tübingen) - PhD work at MPI Tü & UBT | 
| Susanne Gillig | Diploma in Biochemistry 2012 (Tübingen) - PhD work at Uni Würzburg | 
| Kaspar Feldmeier | Diploma in Biology 2010 (Tübingen) & studies in Mathematics - PhD work at MPI Tü | 
| Christian Stumpp | Diploma in Biochemistry 2009 (Tübingen) - PhD Dresden - now at Bayer Healthcare | 
| Christoph Malisi | Diploma in Bioinformatics 2007 (Tübingen) - PhD work at MPI Tü | 
| 
 Bachelor Students | |
| Max Paulfranz | B.Sc. in Biochemistry 2024 (Bayreuth) - M.Sc. studies at Uni Potsdam | 
| Peter Salein | B.Sc. in Biochemistry 2024 (Bayreuth) - M.Sc. studies at DTU, Denmark | 
| Lara Schatt | B.Sc. in Biochemistry 2023 (Bayreuth) | 
| Vincent Berg | B.Sc. in Biochemistry 2023 (Bayreuth) - M.Sc. studies at UBT | 
| Paul Jacobs | B.Sc. in Biochemistry 2023 (Bayreuth) - M.Sc. studies at UBT | 
| Emily Freund | B.Sc. in Biochemistry 2022 (Bayreuth) - M.Sc. studies at UBT | 
| Celina Seidl | B.Sc. in Biochemistry 2023 (Bayreuth) - M.Sc. studies at UBT | 
| Franziska Fassold | B.Sc. in Biochemistry 2022 (Bayreuth) | 
| Isabelle Troidl | B.Sc. in Biochemistry 2022 (Bayreuth) | 
| Alexander E. Braun | B.Sc. in Biochemistry 2021 (Bayreuth) - M.Sc. studies at UBT | 
| Timo Kossendey | B.Sc. in Biochemistry 2021 (Bayreuth) - M.Sc. studies at UBT | 
| Johanna-Sophie Koch | B.Sc. in Biochemistry 2020 (Bayreuth) - M.Sc. studies at UBT | 
| Kristine Schweinshaut | B.Sc. in Biochemistry 2020 (Bayreuth) - M.Sc. studies at Uni Würzburg | 
| Leonie Lutz | B.Sc. in Biochemistry 2020 (Bayreuth) - M.Sc. studies at Uni Würzburg | 
| Jakob Noske | B.Sc. in Biochemistry 2019 (Bayreuth) - M.Sc. studies at UBT | 
| Cornelius Fischer | B.Sc. in Biochemistry 2019 (Bayreuth) - M.Sc. studies at U. Otago, NZ | 
| Jonathan Haiss | B.Sc. in Biochemistry 2018 (Bayreuth) in collaboration with Elisa Bombarda - M.Sc. studies at UBT | 
| Christin Wirth | B.Sc. in Biochemistry 2018 (Bayreuth) | 
| Andreas Gagsteiger | B.Sc. in Biochemistry 2018 (Bayreuth) in collaboration with Steffen Schmidt - M.Sc. studies at UBT | 
| Merle Flecks | B.Sc. in Biochemistry 2018 (Bayreuth) - M.Sc. studies at UBT | 
| Franziska Stanzel | B.Sc. in Biochemistry 2017 (Bayreuth) - M.Sc. studies at Uni Jena | 
| Markus Averbeck | B.Sc. in Biochemistry 2017 (Bayreuth) - M.Sc. UBT - now PhD at Uni Greifswald | 
| Marcel Conrady | B.Sc. in Biochemistry 2016 (Tübingen & UBT) - M.Sc. Uni Tü - now PhD work at Uni Mainz | 
| Kevin Hörmle | B.Sc. in Biochemistry 2016 (Tübingen) | 
| Sara Götz | B.Sc. in Biochemistry 2014 (Tübingen) - M.Sc. Uni Tü - now PhD work at EMBL Heidelberg | 
| Dominik Brücher | B.Sc. in Biochemistry 2013 (Tübingen) - M.Sc. Uni Tü - now PhD work at Uni Zürich | 
| 
 Guests, summer students & HiWis | |
| Basak Barut | 2025 (BSc in Chemical Engineering), Izmir Institute of Technology, Turkey | 
| Jan Hartmann | 2024 (Master student) FAU Erlangen | 
| Luis Knoll | 2024 (School intern) Bayreuth | 
| Paul Curmi | 2023, (visiting Professor), University of New South Wales, Australia | 
| Oscar Rodriguez | 2023, (PhD student), Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico | 
| José Arcadio Farias Rico | 2023, (visiting Professor), UNAM, Mexico | 
| Alejandro Fernández Velasco | 2023, (visiting Professor), UNAM, Mexico | 
| Roberto Chica | 2023, (visiting Professor), Ottawa University, Canada | 
| Cinthya Rocio Tapia de Aquino | 2022, (PhD student), Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico | 
| Veronika Waas | 2022, (Master student), University Regensburg | 
| Sebastian Sax | 2021, (School intern), Göttingen | 
| Rafael Piper | 2020, (Master student, teaching studies Biology & Chemistry), University Bayreuth | 
| Constance Le Gac | 2020, (Master student, Computational Biology), École Polytechnique Paris, France | 
| Katja Mindler | 2019, (Masters, Biochemistry), University Tübingen | 
| Laura Pérez | 2019, (Masters, Biochemistry), Universidad Autónoma de Coahuila, Mexico | 
| Lucas Krauss | 2017, (Masters, Biochemistry), Université Paris-Saclay, France | 
| Youssef Mansour | 2015 - 2016, (Masters), Radboud University Nijmegen, Netherlands | 
| Jesus Banda | 2015, (PhD student), UNAM, Mexico | 
| Mehdi Nellen | 2015, (Masters, Life Sciences), Utrecht Universiteit, Netherlands (Erasmus+) | 
| Asia Joanna Materska | 2015, (Masters, Physics), University of Warsaw (Erasmus+) | 
| Tessa Skroblyn | 2015, (Masters Biology), University Tübingen | 
| Aliye Ezgi Gülec | 2014, (Untergraduate), Middle East Technical U., Türkei (DAAD) | 
| Bobby Vazquez | 2013 & 2014, (Undergraduate), U. of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras (NIH) | 
| Robert Rietmeijer | 2013, (Undergraduate), U. of Rochester, USA (RISE-DAAD) | 
| Rudo Mafondokoto | 2012, (Undergraduate), Jacobs Universität Bremen | 
| Ulrike Scheib | 2011 & 2013, (Undergraduate Biochemistry), University Tübingen | 
| Jorge Enrique Quintana Kageyama | 2011, (Masters), UNAM, Mexiko | 
| Shirlee Wohl | 2011, (Undergraduate), Yale, USA | 
| Justin Godbout | 2011, (Undergraduate), Queen’s University, Kanada (RISE-DAAD) | 
| Xueqin Pang | 2010 - 2011, (PhD student), Dalian Institute, China (CAS fellowship) | 
| Anja Ehrkamp | 2010, (Masters), Universität Münster - internship | 
| Shailendra Verma | 2010, (Undergraduate), IT-BHU Varanasi, Indien | 
| William Proffitt | 2009, (Undergraduate), Vanderbilt, TN, USA | 
| Pablo Cruz Morales | 2008, (Masters), UNAM, Mexiko | 
| Abhinav Kumar | 2007, (Undergraduate), IIT Guwahati, Indien | 
| Raphael Roccor | 2007, (Undergraduate Biologie), University Tübingen | 
| Tanmay Bharat | 2006, (Undergraduate), Delhi University, Indien | 
 
	
	
	
	
		
			
			     
			
		
		
	
