Team

Our team

Meet the people behind our research — an interdisciplinary group at iBIO, Helmholtz Munich.

Group Leader

Ali Maximilian Ertürk

Director

Co-deputies & Leadership

Markus Elsner

Co-deputy

Farida Hellal

Co-deputy

Operations & Administration

Thomas Schubert

Head of Operations in Biotechnologies

Marin Bralo

Technical Assistant

Denise Jeridi

Lab Technician

Xiaoshan Hu

Team Assistant

Stefanie Reitinger

Project Coordinator

Staff Scientists

Harsharan S. Bhatia

Omics Technologies Team Leader

Ceren Kimna

Nanotechnology Team Lead

David-Paul Minde

Staff Scientist

Philip Ruthig

Staff Scientist

Scientist

GÜ

Gözde Ünver

AI Scientist

Ahmet Sarigun

AI Scientist

Postdocs

Doris Kaltenecker

Postdoc

Jennifer Modamio

Postdoc

Mihail Todorov

Postdoc

PhD Students

Louis Kümmerle

Ph.D. Candidate

Ying Chen

Ph.D. Candidate

Jie Zhan

Ph.D. Candidate

Eva Küsters

Ph.D. Candidate

Qi Liu

Ph.D. Candidate

Laurent Simons

Ph.D. Candidate

Master Students

Luciano Höher

Master Student

Zairong Cai

Master Student

Alumni

The following people spent time in the Ertürk Lab at iBIO, Helmholtz Munich.

Mayar Ali

PhD Student

2020–2025

Müge Molbay

PhD Student

2019–2025

Tzu-Lun Ohn

Postdoc

2020–2025

Hongcheng Mai

PhD Student

2018–2023

Johannes Paetzold

PhD Student

2017–2023

Shan Zhao

PhD Student

2018–2023

Zeynep Ilgın Kolabaş

PhD Student

2018–2023

Oliver Schoppe

PhD Student

2016–2020

Chenchen Pan

PhD Student

2015–2019

A. Javier Parra Damas

Postdoc

Abid Abrar

PhD Student

Alison Wright

Postdoc

Ana Toman Fabjan

Research Associate

Basabdatta Gupta

Master's Student

Benjamin Förstera

Postdoc

Carolina Cigankova

Undergraduate Student

Christoph Dehner

Master's Student

F. Paola Quacquarelli

Postdoc

Furkan Öztürk

PhD Student

Inés H. García-Plaza

Undergraduate Student

Izabela Horvath

PhD Student

Jakub Grzejdak

Undergraduate Student

Karen Biniossek

Research Associate

Karen Stanic

Postdoc

Karoline Kadletz

PhD Student

Kubilay Doğan Kılıç

Postdoc

Lamia'a Bahnassawy

Postdoc

Leander Mrowka

Master's Student

Leone Njeramba

Research Associate

Louiza Ignatiou

Master's Student

Madita Reimer

Master's Student

Marika Ruiyao Cai

PhD Student

Miro Kolenic

Master's Student

Moritz Negwer

Postdoc

Paul Paetzold

Master's Student

Peng Wei

Postdoc

Rupinder Kaur

Postdoc

Safiah Olabi

Postdoc

Şebnem Çam

Undergraduate Student

Selin Ulukaya

Master's Student

Sen Yang

Master's Student

Serhat Kalkan

Master's Student

Simge Duman

Undergraduate Student

Suheda Erener

Research Associate