Mentor and Mentee Guidelines
- Fill out the mentor profile form here
- If contacted, be willing to meet the student at least once informally
- The mentor can decline future meetings at their own discretion
- The mentor can decline further mentees if they already have too many
- The mentor will keep anything discussed in the meeting completely confidential, unless it is deemed necessary to break confidentiality in the interests of the student’s health & safety. In this case, the point of contact is Scientific Training Unit
- Find the profiles of the Post Docs that have volunteered to mentor/give advice to their PhD colleagues here
- The student is responsible for arranging the meetings
- Your mentor is not a supervisor, in the sense of project planning and experimental design. It is the student’s responsibility to use the mentoring relationship appropriately
- Reach out to the postdoc that from their profile looks like a good fit for you and set up a first meeting!
If you have further questions please contact:
Yan Sun - yan.sun(at)imp.ac.at
Post Doc Mentors
Below you will find the profiles of the Post Docs that have volunteered to mentor/give advice to their PhD colleagues. If you would like to sign up as a mentor please go to the following link
PhD/Previous postdoc position: ?
Scientific interests: Structural Biology, evolution, bioinformatics, data science and AI
Free-time activities: Climbing, biking, movies, woodworking, cooking, (electronic) music
Email: daniel.braun(at)univie.ac.at
PhD/Previous postdoc position: PhD (Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology)
Scientific interests: Proteomics, mass spectrometry, bioinformatics, single-cell proteomics
Free-time activities: Swimming, reading, board games, hanging out with friends
Email:julia.bubis(at)imp.ac.at
PhD/Previous postdoc position: PhD (Weizmann Institute of Science)
Scientific interests: Genetic variation, plant adaptation, evolution, ecology
Free-time activities: Sweets, pilates, yoga, outdoor fun with my kids
PhD/Previous postdoc position: PhD (University of Hyderabad, India)
Scientific interests: Cell Biology, Imaging techniques, Organelle shape and function, budding yeast, mammalian cells
Free-time activities: Reading (fiction mostly), attending my plants, cooking while listening to music
PhD/Previous postdoc position: PhD (Medical University of Vienna)
Scientific interests: Cancer metabolism, PP2A, transporters
Free-time activities: Basketball, board games, cinema, history, traveling
PhD/Previous postdoc position: PhD (Max Perutz labs / University of Freiburg)
Scientific interests: Proteomics, mass spectrometry, data analysis, bioinformatics, experimental design, programming
Free-time activities: Reading, cooking, hanging out with friends, going for walks and hiking
PhD/Previous postdoc position: PhD (Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic University, Russia)
Scientific interests: Evolution, mathematical modeling, bioinformatics
Free-time activities: Hiking, tennis, guitar, opera
PhD/Previous postdoc position: PhD (Max Perutz Labs), PD (University of Oxford)
Scientific interests: Cell biology
Free-time activities: Kendo, Salsa and Bachata, watching football, eating pizza
PhD/Previous postdoc position: PhD (Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Bhopal), PD (University of Texas at Austin)
Scientific interests: Plant biology, plant development, light Signalling, plant-environment interactions
Free-time activities: Music, movies
Email: nikhil.job(at)gmi.oeaw.ac.at
PhD/previous postdoc position: GReD, Université Clermont Auvergne
Scientific interests: Epigenomics, heterochromatin, transposable elements
Free-time activities: Climbing and mountains and stuff in nature
Lab link: https://www.oeaw.ac.at/gmi/research/research-groups/frederic-berger
Email: pierre.bourguet(at)gmi.oeaw.ac.at
PhD/previous postdoc position: Univeristy of California, Berkeley, USA
Scientific interests: Transcriptional bursting, MPRAs, disease modeling in stem cells, genome editing, FISH, slightly outdated radioactive DNA assays, science outreach to schools
Free-time activities: Hiking, singing, basketball, reading, drawing, cooking, bouldering
Lab link: https://www.imp.ac.at/groups/alexander-stark/members
Email: franziska.lorbeer(at)imp.ac.at
PhD/previous postdoc position: Monash University (ARMI)
Scientific interests: Regeneration and developmental biology, live imaging, clonal tracing
Free-time activities: Weight lifting, cycling, baking
Lab link: https://www.oeaw.ac.at/imba/groups/elly-tanaka/team
Email: wouter.masselink@imba.oeaw.ac.at
PhD/previous postdoc position: Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel
Scientific interests: Protein biochemistry, mRNA splicing, CRISPR Cas9, Lentivirus, Human tissue culture
Free-time activities: Mom, wife, dancer, volunteer
Email: daria.riabov(at)imp.ac.at
PhD/previous postdoc position: University of Zurich
Scientific interests: Genomic Integrity, chromosome architecture, high-content microscopy
Free-time activities: Social issues, board Games, sci-fi, basketball
Lab link: https://www.oeaw.ac.at/imba/research/daniel-gerlich/team
Email: federico.teloni(at)imba.oeaw.ac.at
PhD/previous postdoc position: Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia
Scientific interests: mitochondria, biochemistry, microscopy, sequencing
Free-time activities: Sewing, knitting, snowboarding, yoga
Lab link: https://www.imp.ac.at/groups/andrea-pauli/members
Email: anastasia.chugunova(at)imp.ac.at
PhD/previous postdoc position: Bijvoet Centre for Biomolecular Research, Utrecht, the Netherlands
Scientific interests: Protein purification, protein biochemistry, neurodegeneration, autophagy
Free-time activities: Making music, sports, travels, literature, philosophy
Lab link: https://www.maxperutzlabs.ac.at/research/research-groups/martens
Email: luca.ferrari(at)univie.ac.at
PhD/previous postdoc position: University of Bern, Switzerland
Scientific interests: Microbiology, non-coding RNAs, bacterial ribosome
Free-time activities: Sports (beach volleyball, skiing, snowboarding...), going for a drink (preferably combined with a soccer game)
Lab link: https://www.maxperutzlabs.ac.at/research/research-groups/moll
Email: michel.fasnacht(at)univie.ac.at
PhD/Previous postdoc position: PhD (Universitair Medisch Centrum Groningen)
Scientific interests: Brain development, neurodevelopmental disorders, microglia, autism, brain organoids, RNA sequencing, imaging
Free-time activities: Walking with my horses and/ or dogs, yoga
PhD/Previous postdoc position: PhD (ETH Zürich)
Scientific interests: Targeted Protein Degradation, Biochemistry, Microbiology
Free-time activities: Parenting, reading fantasy and sci-fi, yoga
PhD/Previous postdoc position: PhD (Yale University), PD (UT Southwestern Medical Center)
Scientific interests: Super-resolution fluorescence microscopy, light-sheet fluorescence microscopy, computer vision, membrane biophysics
Free-time activities: Cycling, hiking, climbing, crafting
PhD/Previous postdoc position: PhD (TU Dresden)
Scientific interests: Regeneration, developmental biology, cancer immunology
Free-time activities: Dancing, yoga
PhD/Previous postdoc position: MD (Charité - University Medical Center Berlin)
Scientific interests: Metastasis modelling, therapy resistance, synthetic lethality, tumour dormancy/ senescence
Free-time activities: Pop culture & music, travel, running
PhD/Previous postdoc position: PhD (University of Manchester), PD (University of Bristol)
Scientific interests: Plant Evolution and Development
Free-time activities: Eating out, meeting friends, reading and zoo trips!
PhD/Previous postdoc position: PhD (Erasmus MC, the Netherlands)
Scientific interests: Developmental biology, stem cells, stem cell models
Free-time activities: Making music, yoga, running
PhD/Previous postdoc position: PhD (Heidelberg University), PD (Stanford University)
Scientific interests: Developmental biology and biochemistry (with plants Marchantia and Arabidopsis, but I did my Bachelor/Master with focus on the medical field). Specialist in phloem/vasculature, stomata and Marchantia sporeling development. I offer help with confocal microscopy, plant growth, grafting, protoplasting, proximity labelling (protein biochemistry in general), histology, tissue staining techniques, scientific writing, figure/poster design, career planning and stress management.
Free-time activities: Drawing, cooking/baking, Yoga, dancing, various outdoor sports, some nerdy stuff - just ask :)
PhD: Institute of Biomedical Sciences University of São Paulo
Previous postdoc position: Center of Genomics and System Biology, New York University
Scientific interests: Cellular signaling, proteostasis, misfolded protein stress, E3 ligases, Ubiquitin-Proteasome System, Proteasome
Free-time activities: Gym, museums, swimming, photography and walking
email: anapaula.zen(at)imba.oeaw.ac.at
PhD/previous postdoc position: University of Oxford, Sir William Dunn School of Pathology
Scientific interests: Fluorescence correlation spectroscopy, Fluorescence microscopy, Centrioles, Centrosomes
Free-time activities: Football, Zither (musical instrument)
Lab link: https://www.oeaw.ac.at/imba/research/daniel-gerlich/team
Email: thomas.steinacker(at)imba.oeaw.ac.at
PhD/previous postdoc position: Francis Crick Institute/UCL, London UK
Scientific interests: Cryo-EM, ubiquitin-proteasome system, chromosome segregation
Free-time activities: Beach Volleyball, snowboarding, squash
Lab link: https://www.imp.ac.at/groups/david-haselbach/members
Email: zuzana.hodakova(at)imp.ac.at
PhD/previous postdoc position: Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology, Tuebingen, Germany
Scientific interests: Biochemistry, RNA biology
Free-time activities: Playing the bass, drawing, cooking
Lab link: https://www.maxperutzlabs.ac.at/research/research-groups/ameres
Email: annamaria.sgromo(at)imba.oeaw.ac.at
PhD/previous postdoc position: Max Perutz Labs
Scientific interests: Single molecule microscopy, liquid-liquid phase separation, fluorescent microscopy, biochemistry
Free-time activities: Cooking, dancing, reading, parenting
Lab link: https://www.maxperutzlabs.ac.at/research/research-groups/koehler
Email: laura.gallego.valle(at)univie.ac.at
PhD/previous postdoc position: Max Planck Institute for Colloids and Interfaces, Berlin
Scientific interests: Computational and systems biology, bioinformatics, data analysis, mathematical modeling
Free-time activities: Climbing, badminton, volleyball, cooking, eating, mountains
Lab link: https://www.maxperutzlabs.ac.at/research/research-groups/menche
Email: celine(at)menchelab.com
PhD/previous postdoc position: Postdoc in France and USA
Scientific interests: Marine biology & chronobiology & ecophysiology
Free-time activities: Sport (climbing, trekking...), sailing, reading, meeting friends
Lab link: https://neurodevbio.univie.ac.at/tessmar-raible-research/
Email: audrey.mat(at)univie.ac.at
PhD/previous postdoc position: Postdoc at University Clinic Regensburg, Germany
Scientific interests: Mouse models of neuroinflammation and demyelination, IHC, flow cytometry, cell culture, microscopy.
Free-time activities: Sci Comm, reading, walking by a river, crochet, family, pet
Lab link: https://www.oeaw.ac.at/imba/research/sofia-grade/team
Email: maria.gonzalez(at)imba.oeaw.ac.at
PhD/previous postdoc position: Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Iran
Scientific interests: Organoids, clinical embryology, infertility, confocal microscopy
Free-time activities: Soccer, volleyball, board games, Sci-Fi, basketball
Lab link: https://www.oeaw.ac.at/imba/research/nicolas-rivron/team
Email: heidar.heidari.khoei(at)imba.oeaw.ac.at