GRK in a nutshell

At the heart of our Resarch Training Group is a team of highly motivated, enthusiastic, and research-driven scientists. Our team includes 53 active members and 27 alumni. See below for more information:


10 Principal Investigators

Prof. Dr. Karina Morgenstern (Spokesperson)
Prof. Dr. Guido Clever
Prof. Dr. Martina Havenith-Newen
Prof. Dr. Christian Merten
Prof. Dr. Poul Petersen
Prof. Dr. Axel Rosenhahn
Prof. Dr. Lars Schäfer
Prof. Dr. Marialore Sulpizi
Prof. Dr. Kristina Tschulik
Dr. David Van Craen

7 Postdocs

Dr. Frederike Beyer - RTG start-up funding
Dr. Yunjun Cao
Dr. Vladimir Lykov
Dr. Sanjana S. Nalige - RTG start-up funding
Dr. Julien Rowen
Dr. Ashley Stingel
Dr. Gers Tusha - RTG start-up funding

1 Qualifying Scholar

Kanza Kayani

3 Pregraduate Research Students

Jaspreet Kaur
Jessica Kripalani
Lilian Najm Alsayed

2 Coordinators

Dr. Thea S. Mayer
Barbara Lehmann

27 PhD Students

Johanna Angona
Lucas Araujo de Lima Dias
Iheb Baklouti
Nicola Bogo
Malte Feßner
Kseniya Gorbatenko
Lars Hebenbrock
Luciana Herbeck
Malavika G. Kalarikkal
Saskia Körning
Qixuan Li
Andriana Loukovitou
Abhinu Menoth Sasidharan
Bashar Moussa
Samantha Muhring-Salamone
Melinda Nolten
David Ocklenburg
Yong-He Pan
Aiswarya Roby
Björn Schmidt
Thais Schroeder Rossi
Dipesh Somvanshi
Laurie Stevens
Veronika Stoianova
Dr. Anna Šugai
Çağrı Turan
Iqra Yousaf

3 Mercator Fellows

Prof. Dr. Talat Shahnaz Rahman
Prof. Dr. Marie-Pierre Gaigeot
Prof. Dr. Kenneth N. Raymond


27 Alumni

Dr. Elie Benchimol
Dr. Niclas Blanc
Abhishek Chattopadhyay
Dr. Kristina Ebbert
Sarah Funke
Dr. Patricia Gnutt
Dr. Maximilian Jaugstetter
Dr. Anna Selina Juber
Dr. Inga Langguth
Prof. Dr. Dominik Marx
Dr. Clemens Müller
Prof. Dr. Patrick Nürnberger
Dr. Thorsten Ockelmann
Dr. André Platzek

Dr. Sonja Pullen
Dr. Irene Regeni
Dr. Sergi Ruiz Barragán
Prof. Dr. Wolfram Sander
Dr. Lisa Schardt
Dr. Tim Schleif
Dr. Kevin Scholten
Prof. Dr. Christopher Stein
Dr. Niklas Sülzner
Dr. Alexandre Walther
Dr. Luisa Weirich
Dr. Kevin Wonner
Dr. Ertuğrul Yalçın