The lab currently has 33 members, although due to the overlap with the EMBL Heidelberg Director's Office, the exact count is hard to tell.
We are 5 PhD students, 11 postdoctoral fellows and research scientists, 4 visitors and student workers, supported by 6 people providing technical assistance (both computational and in the lab), 5 program managers and officers, and one personal assistant.
Until now, 27 PhD students and 61 postdocs/research scientists have graduated from the lab. See below for the list of alumni!
Peer Bork, PhD
Director of EMBL Heidelberg
Joined Jan 1994
Sina-Victoria Barysch, PhD
Project Manager
Also part of the
Director's Office
Joined Jan 2020
Tina Enders, PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow
Joined Mar 2023
Anthony Noel Fullam, PhD
Senior Bioinformatics Software Engineer
Joined May 2019
Anastasiia Grekova, MSc
PhD Student
Joined Aug 2023
Mariam Hassan
Metadata Curator
Joined Sep 2022
Diënty Hendrina Maria Johanna Hazenbrink, MSc
Research Technician
Joined Nov 2019
Anandhi Iyappan, PhD
Data & Metadata Standards Officer
Joined Apr 2021
Marisa Isabell Keller, MSc
PhD Student
Joined Apr 2020
Chan Yeong Kim, PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow
Joined Mar 2022
Michael Kuhn, PhD
Research Staff Scientist & Research Coordinator
Joined May 2016
Anastasiia Kutkina
Master Student
Joined May 2023
Kerstin Leberecht, PhD
TREC Data Manager
Joined Apr 2023
Ivica Letunic, PhD
Visiting Scientist
Joined Oct 2014
Anna Mankowski, PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow
Joined Jan 2022
Federico Marotta, MSc
PhD Student
Joined May 2021
Suguru Nishijima, PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow
Joined Jan 2019
Amandine Nunes-Jorge, MSc
BIOcean5D Project Manager
Joined Feb 2023
Askarbek Orakov, MSc
PhD Student
Joined Sep 2019
Daniel Podlesny, PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow
Joined Apr 2022
Dennis Pohl, PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow
Joined Sep 2023
Jonas Richter, MSc
PhD Student
Joined Oct 2022
Shahriyar Mahdi Robbani, MSc
Bioinformatics Software Engineer
Joined Apr 2022
Santhust, PhD
Bioinformatician: Biological data and Network analysis
Secondment from EMBL's
Data Science Centre
Joined May 2022
Christian Schudoma, PhD
Bioinformatics Cloud & Workflows Engineer
Joined Jul 2020
Sarah Schulz, MSc
Microbiological Standards Officer
Joined Mar 2022
Kiley West Seitz, PhD
Soil Microbiologist
Joined Jun 2019
Matej Trojak, PhD
Planetary Biology Biocurator
Joined Aug 2023
Suvi Turunen
Personal Assistant to Director EMBL HD
Also part of the
Director's Office
Joined Oct 2021
Lucas Ustick, PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow
Joined Jul 2022
Yan P. Yuan, PhD
Bioinformatics Lab Manager
Joined Jan 1996
Zhe Zhao
Visitor, Predoctoral Fellow
Joined Mar 2021
Josipa Bilic Zimmermann, PhD
Planetary Biology Program Manager
Joined Sep 2020
Kasimir Noack (Metadata Curator from Sep 2022 to Sep 2023)
Supriya Khedkar (Postdoctoral Fellow from Nov 2017 to Aug 2023)
Moritz von Stetten (Metadata Curator, Master Student from Oct 2021 to Aug 2023)
Joseph Christian Somody (27th PhD student from Aug 2018 to May 2023)
Thomas Sebastian Schmidt (Postdoctoral Fellow & Research Scientist from Sep 2016 to Mar 2023)
Thea Van Rossum (Postdoctoral Fellow & Research Scientist from Nov 2017 to Oct 2022)
now
Senior Bioinformatician, Koonkie Inc
Alice Groudko (Visitor from Jan 2022 to Aug 2022)
now
Bachelor student in Edinburgh
Ela Cetin (Metadata Curator from Oct 2021 to Jul 2022)
Pamela Ferretti (26th PhD student from Sep 2017 to Jul 2022)
now
Postdoctoral Fellow in the lab of Ran Blekhman
Wasiu Akanni (Bioinformatics Software Engineer from Mar 2019 to Mar 2022)
Leonie Thomas (Metadata Curator from Oct 2019 to Nov 2021)
Maria Zimmermann-Kogadeeva (Postdoctoral Fellow from Aug 2019 to Oct 2021)
now
Group Leader, Genome Biology Unit, EMBL
Bianca Maria Dibari (Project management from Oct 2020 to Oct 2021)
Daniela Chenkova (Administration from Oct 2014 to Oct 2021)
Sander Wuyts (Postdoctoral Fellow from Sep 2019 to Sep 2021)
now
CEO at ImmuneWatch, Antwerp, Belgium
Roman Thielemann (Metadata Curator, Master Student from Oct 2019 to Sep 2021)
now
PhD student at Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Basic Metabolic Research
Sarela Garcia Santamarina (Postdoctoral Fellow (EMBL Interdisciplinary Postdoctoral Fellowships) from May 2018 to Sep 2021)
now
Research associate at ITQB-Nova, Oeiras, Portugal
Oleksandr Maistrenko (25th PhD student from Aug 2016 to Jul 2021)
now
Postdoctoral Fellow at NIOS, NL
Ece Kartal (24th PhD student from Mar 2016 to Mar 2021)
now
Postdoctoral Fellow in Saez Lab at University Heidelberg
Alejandro Andres Murillo Cordova (Postdoctoral Fellow from Feb 2017 to Dec 2020)
now
Science communication coordinator - Project MACH-SATREPS Fisheries Development Institute - Chile
Stefanie Kandels (Scientific Operations Manager from Jan 2013 to Dec 2020)
now
Head of EMBL Heidelberg Director's Office
Ivan Kel (MD Student from Nov 2019 to Nov 2020)
now
Medical doctor
Tobias Wenzel (Postdoctoral Fellow from Mar 2018 to Oct 2020)
now
Assistant Professor at Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile
Christopher Lance (Visitor from Sep 2019 to Sep 2020)
now
PhD student at Helmholtz Zentrum München
Ulrike Trojahn (Project Manager from May 2018 to Jun 2020)
now
Administrator at Max-Planck-Institute of Biophysics
Renato Alves (23rd PhD student from Sep 2015 to Jan 2020)
now
Bio-IT Project & Community Manager at EMBL
Askarbek Orakov (Visitor from Jan 2019 to Sep 2019)
Yuanyue Li (Postdoctoral Fellow from Dec 2015 to Apr 2019)
now
Postdoctoral Fellow at UC Davis, Fiehn Lab
Natalie Romanov (22nd PhD student from Sep 2014 to Mar 2019)
now
Data Strategist at Merck Darmstadt
Lucas Moitinho e Silva (Postdoctoral Fellow from Feb 2017 to Feb 2019)
now
Scientist at University of Kiel, IKMB
Pernile Myers (Visitor from Apr 2018 to Jan 2019)
now
Senior Bioinformatician at Clinical Microbiomics
Falk Hildebrand (Postdoctoral Fellow from Jan 2014 to Jan 2019)
now
Research leader at Quadram Institute, Norwich, UK
Anna Maria Glazek (Senior Bioinformatics Officer from Nov 2016 to Nov 2018)
now
Software engineer at VEEVA Systems
Anna Schwarz (Visitor from Mar 2018 to Aug 2018)
now
Consultant Data Science bei Five1 GmbH & Co. KG
Matthew Chaib (Visitor (Erasmus) from Sep 2017 to Jul 2018)
Jaime Huerta Cepas (Postdoctoral Fellow from Jan 2014 to Jul 2018)
now
Group leader at CBGP (UPM-INIA), Madrid, Spain
Luis Pedro Coelho (Postdoctoral Fellow from Apr 2013 to Jul 2018)
now
PI at Queensland University of Technology (QUT) in Brisbane
Anna Pryszlak (Postdoctoral Fellow from Jan 2015 to May 2018)
now
Head of Screening at VERAXA Biotech GmbH
Mechthild Luetge (Visitor from Sep 2017 to May 2018)
now
PhD student at Kantonsspital St Gallen
Sofia Forslund (Postdoctoral Fellow from Jan 2012 to May 2018)
now
Group leader at MDC, Berlin
Katri Korpela (Visitor from Jan 2016 to Jan 2018)
now
Researcher at University of Helsinki
Esther Molina Montes (Visitor from Sep 2017 to Dec 2017)
Simone Li (20th PhD student from Aug 2012 to Nov 2017)
now
PI at Monash University, Melbourne
Melanie Tramontano/Schmid (Postdoctoral Fellow (EMBL Interdisciplinary Postdoctoral Fellowships) from Feb 2013 to Oct 2017)
now
Biosafety officer at DKFZ
Kristina Kastano (Visitor from Mar 2017 to Sep 2017)
now
PhD student at University of Mainz, CBDM
Marja Driessen (Postdoctoral Fellow from Feb 2014 to Sep 2017)
Benjamin Lang (Postdoctoral Fellow (EMBL Interdisciplinary Postdoctoral Fellowships) from May 2014 to Jul 2017)
now
Senior Bioinformatics Research Scientist in Madan Babu's Group at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital.
Matthew Hayward (Postdoctoral Fellow from Jan 2014 to Jun 2017)
now
Postdoctoral Fellow at MGH, Harward
Robin Erich Muench (Visitor from Feb 2016 to Mar 2017)
Catarina Caroline de Sales e Santos Loureiro (Visitor from May 2016 to Nov 2016)
now
PhD student at University of Wageningen
Paul Igor Costea (21st PhD student from Sep 2012 to Oct 2016)
now
Bioinformatician at BASF
Francis Kirigin (Visitor from Apr 2016 to Aug 2016)
Shinichi Sunagawa (Postdoctoral Fellow & Staff Scientist from Jun 2010 to Jul 2016)
now
Professor at ETH Zurich, Switzerland
Luca Parca (Scientist, staff member or postdoc from Jan 2013 to Jul 2016)
now
Researcher at Agenzia Spaziale Italiana
Mihaela Pruteanu (Postdoctoral Fellow (EMBL Interdisciplinary Postdoctoral Fellowships) from Jan 2014 to Jun 2016)
now
Science coordinatior and manager
Jessica Oberheim (PhD Student from Oct 2014 to Apr 2016)
Anita Yvonne Voigt (18th PhD student from Feb 2011 to Jan 2016)
now
Associate Research Scientist at The Jackson Laboratory, Farmington, CT
Jens Roat Kultima (17th PhD student from Jan 2011 to Jan 2016)
now
Danish Competition and Consumer Agency; Bioinformatics and Economic Fraud Specialist
Thomas K.C. Bock (Postdoctoral Fellow from Jan 2012 to Jan 2016)
Georg Zeller (Postdoctoral Fellow from Mar 2010 to Dec 2015)
Ana Zhu (16th PhD student from Jul 2010 to Aug 2015)
now
Postdoctoral Fellow at Sanger Institute, UK
Samy Deghou (19th PhD student from Oct 2011 to Aug 2015)
now
Software engineer at SAP
Pablo Minguez Paniagua (Postdoctoral Fellow from Sep 2009 to Jan 2015)
now
PI & Head of Bioinformatics Unit, Madrid, Spain
Clemens Lakner (Technical position from Nov 2012 to Jan 2015)
now
Investment professional
Nelly van der Jagt Gonzalez (Administration from Sep 1999 to Dec 2014)
now
Retired
Ivica Letunic (Postdoctoral Fellow from Jul 2004 to Oct 2014)
Tobias Doerks (Staff Scientist from Jul 2003 to Sep 2014),
Deceased
Daniel Mende (15th PhD student from May 2009 to May 2014)
now
Asst. Professor at Amsterdam University Medical Center, University of Amsterdam
Murat Iskar (14th PhD student from Jul 2008 to Apr 2014)
now
Postdoctoral Fellow at FMI, Switzerland
Tomas Larsson (Postdoctoral Fellow (EMBL Interdisciplinary Postdoctoral Fellowships) from Nov 2008 to Jan 2014)
now
Expert at NBIS, Uppsala University
Wei-Hua Chen (Postdoctoral Fellow from Jul 2008 to Jan 2014)
now
Professor at Huazhong University of Science and Technology
Sean Powell (Bioinformatician from Mar 2008 to Nov 2013)
now
Scientific Consultant at Genedata
Alison Waller (Scientist, staff member or postdoc from Oct 2009 to Oct 2013)
now
Working at Brock University
Vera van Noort (Postdoctoral Fellow & Staff Scientist from Apr 2007 to Oct 2013)
now
Professor for Computational Systems Biology, KU Leuven
Merche Castillo (Visitor from Nov 2012 to Oct 2013)
Luz Garcia-Alonso (Visitor from Sep 2012 to Apr 2013)
now
Senior Bioinformatician at Wellcome Sanger Institute
Siegfried Schloissnig (Bioinformatician from Feb 2010 to Feb 2013)
now
Computer Scientist, IMP Vienna
Julien Tap (Postdoctoral Fellow from Mar 2010 to Jan 2013)
now
Research scientist INRAE
Marc Sitges (Visitor from Jan 2012 to Aug 2012)
now
Product Owner at Sanofi Digital
Mani Arumugam (12th PhD student from Sep 2006 to Aug 2012)
now
Associate Professor, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen
Kalliopi Trachana (13th PhD student from Sep 2007 to Jul 2012)
now
Associate Director, Value Evidence Strategy, at Illumina
Damien Devos (Postdoctoral Fellow from Jul 2009 to May 2012)
now
PI at Centro Andaluz de Biologia del Desarrollo CABD
Takuji Yamada (Postdoctoral Fellow from Apr 2007 to Apr 2012)
now
Associate Prof. at Tokyo Institute of Technology
Xingming Zhao (Postdoctoral Fellow from May 2010 to Jan 2012)
now
Professor at Fudan University, Shanghai, China
Lucas Brouwers (Visitor from Jan 2010 to Aug 2010)
Gabriel Fernandes (Visitor from Jun 2009 to Apr 2010)
now
Researcher at Centro de Pesquisas Rene Rachou, Brasil
Monica Campillos (Postdoctoral Fellow from Sep 2003 to Jan 2010)
Jeroen Raes (Postdoctoral Fellow from May 2005 to Sep 2009)
now
Vice director, VIB Center for Microbiology
Jean Muller (Postdoctoral Fellow from Jan 2007 to Sep 2009)
now
Assistant Professor at IGBMC & Faculte de Medicine, Universityof Strasbourg, France
Michael Kuhn (11th PhD student from Sep 2005 to Jul 2009)
now
Research Staff Scientist & Research Coordinator at EMBL
Damian Szklarczyk (Visitor from Oct 2008 to Apr 2009)
now
Research associate at Institute of Molecular Life Sciences, University of Zurich
Lars Juhl Jensen (Postdoctoral Fellow & Staff Scientist from Jan 2003 to Feb 2009)
now
Professor & Group Leader at The Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Protein Research
Amoolya Singh (Postdoctoral Fellow from Mar 2006 to Jan 2009)
now
SVP Data Science and CSO at GRAIL
Christopher Creevey (Postdoctoral Fellow from Sep 2005 to Jan 2009)
now
Professor of Computational Biology, Queen's University Belfast
Konrad Foerstner (10th PhD student from Sep 2004 to Dec 2008)
now
Professor at ZBMED & TH Köln
Florian Raible (Postdoctoral Fellow (EMBL Interdisciplinary Postdoctoral Fellowships) from Feb 2004 to Jul 2008)
now
Group Leader, Stem Cells, Regeneration and Developmental Plasticity, MFPL
Eoghan Harrington (9th PhD student from Sep 2003 to Mar 2008)
now
Applications Bioinformatician at Oxford Nanopore Technologies Ltd
Mikita Suyama (Postdoctoral Fellow from Apr 1999 to Apr 2007)
now
Professor at Research Center for Systems Immunology, Medical Institute of Bioregulation, Kyusu University
Sean Hooper (Postdoctoral Fellow from Oct 2003 to Feb 2007)
now
Data Platform Engineer at Altered Ltd
Michelle Chan (Visitor from May 2006 to Jan 2007)
Martin Lercher (Visitor from Sep 2004 to Oct 2006)
now
Professor at CEPLAS & Institute for Bioinformatics Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf
Samuel Chaffron (Visitor from Mar 2006 to Oct 2006)
now
Computational biologist at CNRS
Stephanie Boue (8th PhD student from Oct 2002 to Oct 2006)
Christian von Mering (Postdoctoral Fellow & Staff Scientist from Sep 2001 to Aug 2006)
now
Professor at Department of Molecular Life Sciences, University of Zurich
David Torrents Arenales (Postdoctoral Fellow from Mar 2000 to Feb 2006)
now
Computational Genomics Group Manager, Barcelona Supercomputing Center
Parantu Shah (7th PhD student from Aug 2001 to Jan 2006)
now
Associate Scientific Director, EMD Serono R&D
Evgeny Zdobnov (Postdoctoral Fellow from Jan 2002 to Nov 2005)
now
Professor Department of Genetic Medicine and Development, University of Geneva Medical School
Francesca D. Ciccarelli (Postdoctoral Fellow from Jan 2001 to Jul 2005)
now
Principal Group Leader at Crick Institute
Jan Korbel (6th PhD student from Mar 2001 to Apr 2005)
now
Head of Data Science & Group Leader in the Genome Biology Unit, EMBL, Heidelberg.
Roland Krause (Visitor from Jul 2004 to Mar 2005)
now
Research Scientist at Luxembourg Centre for Systems Biomedicine, University of Luxembourg
Markus Krupp (Visitor from Jul 2004 to Feb 2005)
now
Applications-Manager Signal Detection, Merck Group
Rossitza Ouzounova (Visitor from Jan 2004 to Oct 2004)
Julien Lagarde (Visitor from May 2003 to Feb 2004)
now
Head of Bioinformatics, Flomics Biotech
Mathilde Foglierini (Visitor from Oct 2002 to Nov 2003)
now
Computational immunologist
Caroline Perez-Iratxeta (Scientist, staff member or postdoc from Sep 2000 to Jun 2003)
Steffen Schmidt (4th PhD student from Jul 1999 to May 2003)
now
Staff Scientist at University of Bayreuth
Miguel Andrade (Scientist, staff member or postdoc from Jul 1998 to May 2003)
now
Professor at Universität Mainz
Warren C. Lathe III (Scientist, staff member or postdoc from Feb 1999 to Jan 2003)
now
Consultant
Shamil Sunyaev (Scientist, staff member or postdoc from May 1998 to Aug 2002)
now
Professor at Harvard Medical School
Richard Copley (Scientist, staff member or postdoc from Nov 1998 to Jun 2002)
now
Team Leader at Laboratoire de Biologie du developpement
Berend Snel (3rd PhD student from Jan 1999 to May 2002)
now
Professor of Integrative Bioinformatics and Evolutionary Genomics Group, Utrecht University, NL
Birgit Eisenhaber (Visitor from Oct 1997 to Jan 2002)
now
Senior Principal Investigator at Bioinformatics Institute, Singapore
Thomas Dandekar (Scientist, staff member or postdoc from Apr 1997 to Jan 2002)
now
Chair of Bioinformatics, Biocenter, University of Würzburg
Martijn Huynen (Scientist, staff member or postdoc from Nov 1996 to Sep 2001)
now
Professor at Radboud University Medical Centre, NL
Joerg Schultz (1st PhD student from Dec 1995 to Nov 2000)
now
Group Leader at the CCTB and Professor for Bioinformatics, Universität Würzburg
Enrique Morett (Visitor from Jul 2000 to Sep 2000)
now
Investigador at Instituto de Biotechnologia, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico
Chris Ponting (Visitor from Aug 1999 to Sep 1999)
now
Professor & Head for Biomedical Genomics, University of Edinburgh
Frank Eisenhaber (Scientist, staff member or postdoc from Jan 1997 to Sep 1999)
now
Senior Principal Investigator at Bioinformatics Institute, Singapore
Frank Milpetz (Technical position from Mar 1997 to Aug 1998)
Stefan Schuster (Scientist, staff member or postdoc from Sep 1997 to Jul 1998)
now
Professor at Faculty of Biology and Pharmacy, Department of Bioinformatics, University of Jena, Germany
Yudong Cai (Scientist, staff member or postdoc from Aug 1996 to Apr 1998)
now
Professor and PI at Institute of Systems Biology, Shanghai University
Yolande Diaz Lazcoz (Scientist, staff member or postdoc from Dec 1996 to Mar 1998)
now
Research Teacher at Laboratoire de Mathématiques et Modélisation d'Évry, Université d'Évry Val d'Essonne
Hedvig Hegyi (Scientist, staff member or postdoc from Oct 1995 to Oct 1997)
now
Group Leader of Masaryk University, CZ
Vladimir M. Morozov (Visitor from Aug 1996 to Apr 1997)
now
Researcher at Chemical Enzymology Division, Chemistry Department, Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia
Jianmei Lai (Technical position from Feb 1996 to Feb 1997)
now
IT Infrastructure Services Technology Senior Consultant bei SAP
Nigel Brown (Scientist, staff member or postdoc from Sep 1995 to Nov 1996)
now
CEITEC, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic
John Boyle (Scientist, staff member or postdoc from Aug 1994 to Sep 1995)
now
Head of Information Science at Owlstone Medical
