Alumni
Group leaders
Dr. Artem Pankin
Previous Institute:
Institute for Plant Genetics
Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf
Dr. Stephan Wawra
Previous Institute:
Botanical Institute
Cologne Biocenter, University of Cologne
Dr. Hajira Jabeen
Previous Institute:
Data Science and Management
Cologne Biocenter, University of Cologne
Senior researcher and Team leader in Big Data Analytics, GESIS
Dr. Piau Siong Tan
Previous Institute:
Advanced Imaging Development Platform
Cologne Biocenter, University of Cologne
Dr. Alisandra Denton
Previous Institute:
Institute of Plant Biochemistry
Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf
Senior Machine Learning Scientist at Valence Labs, Canada
Dr. Ji-Yun Kim
Previous Institute:
Institute of Molecular Physiology
Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf
Assistant professor at Sungkyunkwan University (SKKU), South Korea
Dr. Vera Göhre
Previous Institute:
Group Pathogenicity
Institute for Microbiology
Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf
Professor at Hochschule Darmstadt
CEPLAS Postdoc Program
Dr. Juliana Almario
Previous Institute: Botanical Institute, Cologne Biocenter, University of Cologne
Dr. Yugander Arra
Previous Institute:
Institute of Molecular Physiology
Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf
DBT-Ramalingaswami Faculty Fellow, School of Biology, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala India
Dr. Christos Bazakos
Previous Institute:
Department of Comparative, Development and Genetics
Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research
Dr. Andrea Bräutigam
Previous Institute:
Institute of Plant Biochemistry
Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf
Dr. Friederike Brüssow
Previous Institute: Department of Plant-Microbe Interactions, Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research
Dr. Irina Calic
Previous Institute:
Institute for Plant Sciences, Cologne Biocenter
University of Cologne
Dr. Balakumaran Chandrasekar
Previous Institute:
Botanical Institute, Cologne Biocenter
University of Cologne
Dr. Rachel Denley Bowers
Previous Institute:
Institute for Quantitative and Theoretical Biology
Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf
Dr. Paloma Duran
Previous Institute:
Department of Plant Microbe Interactions
Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research
Dr. Julia Engelhorn
Previous Institute:
FIND-CIS group MPIPZ
Instiute of Molecular Physiology
Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf
Junior Professor at the University of Montpellier/ UMR DIADE, France
Dr. Wilma van Esse
Previous Institute: Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research
Dr. Henning Frerigmann
Previous Institute: Department of Plant Microbe Interactions, Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research
Dr. Chihiro Furumizu
Previous Institute: Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research
Assistant Professor, Hiroshima University, Japan
Dr. Luise Hecker geb. Brand
Previous Institute:
Department of Plant Developmental Biology
Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research
Dr. Andrew Heidel
Previous Institute:
Institute of Population Genetics
Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf
Dr. Nadine Höcker
Previous Institute:
Institute of Plant Biochemistry
Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf
Dr. Richard Jacoby
Previous Institute:
Botanical Institute, Cologne Biocenter
University of Cologne
Ganga Jeena
Previous Institute: Botanical Institute, Cologne Biocenter , University of Cologne
Dr. Niklas Udo Jung
Previous Institute:
Institute for Plant Cell Biology and Biotechnology
Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf
Dr. Nozomi Kawamoto
Previous Institute:
Institute for Developmental Genetics
Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf
Dr. Ronny Kellner
Previous Institute:
Evolution of obligate parasitism and biodiversity
Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research
Dr. Mather Khan
Previous Institute:
Institute of Botany
Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf
Dr. Sakshi Khosa
Previous Institute:
Institute of Biochemistry
Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf
Postdoc at HHU Düsseldorf
Dr. Christiane Kiefer
Previous Institute: Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research
Dr. Magdalene Kutyniok
Previous Institute: Botanical Institute, Cologne Biocenter, University of Cologne
Dr. Dmitry Lapin
Previous Institute:
Department of Plant Microbe Interactions
Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research
Dr. Yuanyuan Li
Previous Institute: Institute of Plant Molecular and Developmental Biology, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf
Dr. Anita Loeschcke
Previous Institute: Institute of Molecular Enzyme Technology , Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf
Dr. Peter Lundquist
Previous Institute: Institute of Plant Biochemistry, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf
Dr. Otho Mantegazza
Previous Institute:
Institute of Plant Biochemistry
Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf
Data Scientist, Milan, Italy
Dr. Anna Matuszyńska
Previous Institute: Institute for Quantitative and Theoretical Biology, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf
Dr. Miguel Miñambres Martin
Previous Institute:
Institute of Plant Biochemistry
Institute of Synthetic Biology
Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf
Dr. Ryohei Thomas Nakano
Previous Institute:
Department of Plant-Microbe Interactions
Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research
Professor at Hokkaido University, Japan
Dr. Helge Pallakies
Previous Institute: Institute of Developmental Genetics, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf
Dr. Yao Pan
Previous Institute:
Institute of Informatics
Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf
Dr. Thomas Perrot
Previous Institute:
Institute for Plant Cell Biology and Biotechnology
Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf
Postdoctoral researcher at the University of Tours in France
Dr. Manuela Peukert
Previous Institute: Botanical Institute, Cologne Biocenter, University of Cologne
Dr. Thea Pick
Previous Institute:
Institute of Plant Biochemistry
Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf
Dr. Sebastian Ploch
Previous Institute:
Institute of Population Genetics
Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf
Dr. Louai Rishmawi
Previous Institute: Botanical Institute, Cologne Biocenter, University of Cologne
Dr. Roxanne van Rooijen
Previous Institute: Developmental and Molecular Plant Biology, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf
Dr. Hanna Rövenich
Previous Institute:
Botanical Institute, Cologne Biocenter
University of Cologne
Dr. Melanie Sapp
Previous Institute: Institute of Population Genetics, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf
Dr. Andrea Schrader
Previous Institute:
Data Science and Management
University of Cologne
Dr. Mara Schuler-Bermann
Previous Institute:
Developmental and Molecular Plant Biology
Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf
Dr. Stefanie Schulze
Previous Institute:
Institute of Plant Molecular and Developmental Biology
Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf
Dr. Antonella Succurro
Previous Institute: Botanical Institute, Cologne Biocenter, University of Cologne
CTO and Co-Founder CinSOIL
Dr. Filipa Tomé
Previous Institute: Institute for Plant Genetics, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf c/o Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research
Dr. Alice Vayssières
Previous Institute:
Molecular Systematics, Botanical Institute, Cologne Biocenter, University of Cologne
c/o
Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research
Dr. Berkley Walker
Previous Institute: von Humboldt Fellow at Institute of Plant Biochemistry , Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf
Dr. Leonie Weber
Previous Institute: Institute for Plant Sciences, Cologne Biocenter, University of Cologne
Dr. Genghong Wu
Previous Institute:
Institute of Bio and Geosciences-2 (IBG-2)
Forschungszentrum Jülich
Dr. Jia Yu
Previous Institute:
Department of Plant Microbe Interactions
Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research
Plant Molecular Biologist, Plant Organelle Technologies (POT)
Dr. Jinshun Zhong
Previous Institute:
Institute for Plant Genetics, HHU
Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research
CEPLAS Graduate School
Ziba Ajami-Rashidi
Previous Institute:
Institute for Plant Molecular Ecophysiology
Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf
Dr. Kumari Billakurthi
Previous Institute: Developmental and Molecular Biology of Plants, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf
Nikolas Ditz
Previous Institute: Institute of Biochemistry II, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf
Satish Kumar Eeda
Previous Institute: Institute of Developmental Biology, Cologne Biocenter, University of Cologne
Katharina Eitzen, geb. Lentz
Previous Institute: Institute for Genetics, Cologne Biocenter, Terrestrial Microbiology, University of Cologne
Dr. Philipp Fesel
Previous Institute: Botanical Institute, Cologne Biocenter, University of Cologne
Dr. Rubén Garrido-Oter
Previous Institute:
Department of Plant Microbe Interactions
Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research
Niklas Gawenda
Previous Institute:
Institute for Plant Cell Biology and Biotechnology
Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf
Dr. Silke Gerlich
Previous Institute: Botanical Institute, Cologne Biocenter, University of Cologne
Dr. Katharina Gräfe
Previous Institute: Institute of Biochemistry, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf
Jennifer Hage-Hülsmann
Previous Institute:
Institute of Molecular Enzyme Technology
Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf
Svenja Hermanns
Previous Institute:
Institute for Plant Sciences, Cologne Biocenter
University of Cologne
Dr. Meike Hüdig
Previous Institute: Plant Molecular Physiology and Biotechnology, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf
Elaine Jaeger
Previous Institute:
Institute for Genetics, Cologne Biocenter, Terrestrial Microbiology
University of Cologne
Dr. Panpan Jiang
Previous Institute: Botanical Institute, Cologne Biocenter, University of Cologne
Dr. Gwendolyn Kirschner
Previous Institute: Institute for Developmental Genetics, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf
Sarah Kranz-Finger
Previous Institute:
Institute of Biochemistry II
Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf
Dr. Alfredo Mari
Previous Institute: Evolution of obligate parasitism and biodiversity, Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research
Dr. Anna Matuszyńska
Previous Institute: Institute for Quantitative and Theoretical Biology, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf
Priyanka Mishra
Previous Institute:
Cologne Biocenter
Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research
Shrihari Negi
Previous Institute:
CEPLAS Graduate School
Class of 2021
Anny Garces Palacio
Previous Institute:
CEPLAS Graduate School
Class of 2021
Dr. Udhaya Ponraj
Previous Institute: Department of Plant Breeding and Genetics, Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research
Ilyse Putz
Previous Institute:
Institute for Plant Genetics
Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf
Doctoral Candidate, Research Area 1
Dr. Armin Sadat-Khonsari
Previous Institute: Institute for Mathematical Modeling of Biological Systems, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf
Dr. Debika Sarkar
Previous Institute:
Institute for Genetics, Cologne Biocenter Microbial, Ecological Genetics
University of Cologne
Jan Schulze Hüynck
Previous Institute:
Institute for Genetics, Cologne Biocenter, Terrestrial Microbiology
University of Cologne
Priyamedha Sengupta
Previous Institute:
Institute for Plant Sciences, Cologne Biocenter
University of Cologne
Doctoral Researcher, Research Area 2
Anna Sergeeva
Previous Institute:
Institute for Botany
Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf
Dr. Kalpana Shanmugarajah
Previous Institute:
Institute of Biochemistry
Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf
Dr. Suraj Sharma
Previous Institute: Institute for Quantitative and Theoretical Biology, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf
Dr. Elia Stahl
Previous Institute: Institute of Plant Molecular Ecophysiology, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf
Researcher, CNRS - University of Bordeaux, France
Tatiana Stead
Previous Institute:
Institute of Plant Sciences
Cologne Biocenter
University of Cologne
Doctoral Candidate, Research Area 2
Esther Sundermann
Previous Institute:
Computational Cell Biology
Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf
Michael Thielen
Previous Institute:
Botanical Institute,
Cologne Biocenter
University of Cologne
Dr. Vicky Tilmes
Previous Institute: Department of Plant Developmental Biology, Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research
Agatha Walla
Previous Institute:
Department of Plant Developmental Biology
Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research
Postdoctoral Researcher, AG von Korff, HHU Düsseldorf
Dr. Heidi Widmer
Previous Institute: Botanical Institute, Cologne Biocenter, University of Cologne
Dr. Eva Willée
Previous Institute: Botanical Institute, Cologne Biocenter , University of Cologne
Thomas Wrobel
Previous Institute:
Institute of Plant Biochemistry
Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf
Luciana Zacour del Giúdice
Previous Institute:
CEPLAS Graduate School
Class of 2021
Mara Zander
Previous Institute:
CEPLAS Graduate School
Class of 2020