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
CEPLAS Postdoc Program
Dr. Juliana Almario

Previous Institute: Botanical Institute, Cologne Biocenter, University of Cologne
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. 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
Dr. Vera Göhre

Previous Institute:
Institute of Microbiology
Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf
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
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. Adélaïde Raguin

Previous Institute: Institute for Computational Cell Biology, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf
Contributing Investigator, Research Area 4
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. 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
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. 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
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
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
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
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