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 please go to the following link
PhD/Previous postdoc position: PhD, GReD, Université Clermont Auvergne
Scientific interests: Epigenomics, heterochromatin, transposable elements
Free-time activities: Climbing, mountains, stuff in nature
Email: pierre.bourguet@gmi.oeaw.ac.at
PhD/Previous postdoc position: Karolinska Institutet, Sweden
Scientific interests: Bioinformatics, genomics
Free-time activities: Basketball, running
Email: shuangyang.wu@gmi.oeaw.ac.at
PhD/Previous postdoc position: Phd Cambridge UK, PD Karolinska Institute Sweden
Scientific interests: Reproduction, fertility
Free-time activities: Guitar, philosophy
Email: emmanouella.chatzidaki@imba.oeaw.ac.at
PhD/Previous postdoc position: PhD - Sorbonne University, Paris, France
Scientific interests: Computational biology and biophysics, modeling and data analysis, 3D genome organisation, protein interactions
Free-time activities: climbing, hiking, circus, ski, hanging out with friends, trying new restaurants and bars
Email: flavia.corsi@imba.oeaw.ac.at
PhD/Previous postdoc position: Biomedical Center, Lund University, Sweden
Scientific interests: Bioengineering, hydrogels, decellularization, stem cell biology
Free-time activities: Yoga, skiing, reading, friends, hiking, mushroom foraging
Email: martina.desantis@imba.oeaw.ac.at
PhD/Previous postdoc position: PhD - University of Oxford, UK
Scientific interests: Fluorescence correlation spectroscopy, Fluorescence microscopy, Centrioles, Centrosomes
Free-time activities: Football, Zither (musical instrument)
Email: thomas.steinacker@imba.oeaw.ac.at
PhD/Previous postdoc position: University of California, Berkeley, USA
Scientific interests: Transcriptional bursting, MPRAs, disease modeling in stem cells, genome editing, FISH
Free-time activities: Hiking, singing, basketball, reading, drawing, cooking, bouldering
Email: franziska.lorbeer@imp.ac.at
PhD/Previous postdoc position: PhD in the Francis Crick Institute, London, UK
Scientific interests: Cryo-EM, Ubiquitin-Proteasome System, Chromosome Segregation
Free-time activities: Beach Volleyball, Snowboarding, Squash, Sci-Fi/Fantasy books
Email: zuzana.hodakova@imp.ac.at
PhD/Previous postdoc position: PhD at Monash University (ARMI)
Scientific interests: Regeneration and developmental biology, live imaging, Clonal tracing
Free-time activities: Weight lifting, cycling, baking
Email: wouter.masselink@imp.ac.at
PhD/Previous postdoc position: Tuebingen, Germany
Scientific interests: Biochemistry, RNA biology
Free-time activities: Playing the bass, drawing, cooking
Email: annamaria.sgromo@imba.oeaw.ac.at
PhD/Previous postdoc position: PhD in Stein Aerts lab, KULeuven-VIB, Belgium
Scientific interests: Transcriptional regulation, Genomics and transcriptomics, bioinformatics
Free-time activities: Badminton, squash, beach volleyball, going for drinks
Email: jelle.jacobs@imp.ac.at
PhD/Previous postdoc position: PhD- 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@imp.ac.at
PhD/Previous postdoc position: Max Planck Institute for Colloids and Interfaces, Berlin, Germany
Scientific interests: Computational and Systems biology, bioinformatics, data analysis, mathematical modeling
Free-time activities: Climbing, badminton, volleyball, cooking, eating, mountains
Email: celine@menchelab.com
PhD/Previous postdoc position: PhD & Postdoc in the Neuroproteomics lab at the Max-Delbrück-Center in Berlin
Scientific interests: protein-protein interactions, proteomics, bioinformatics, assay development, drug screening, neurodegenerative diseases
Free-time activities: bouldering, trekking, cycling, sourdough bread
Email: philipp.trepte@imba.oeaw.ac.at
PhD/Previous postdoc position: PhD, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia
Scientific interests: mitochondria. Techniques: biochemistry, microscopy, sequencing
Free-time activities: sewing/knitting, snowboarding, yoga
Email: anastasia.chugunova@imp.ac.at
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
Email: audrey.mat@univie.ac.at
PhD/Previous postdoc position: PhD (Max-Planck Institute of Immunobiology and Epigenetics, Freiburg, Germany) Postdoc (Imperial College London, UK)
Scientific interests: Immunology, Lymphocyte development, transcriptional regulation
Free-time activities: Concerts, dancing, cinema, exhibitions, cooking for friends
Email: lesly.calderon@imp.ac.at
PhD/Previous postdoc position: PhD at IISER Pune
Scientific interests: Development biology, epigenetics, next generation sequencing
Free-time activities: Cooking
Email: saurabh.pradhan@imba.oeaw.ac.at
PhD/Previous postdoc position: PhD, Max Perutz labs, Vienna
Scientific interests: Biochemistry and biophysics
Free-time activities: Running, hiking, reading, cinema and gastronomy
Email: renping.qiao@imp.ac.at
PhD/Previous postdoc position: PD-Dominige Bergmann at Stanford University , PhD-Thomas Greb at Heidelberg University/COS
Scientific interests: Arabidopsis (developmental biology, specialist in phloem/vasculature and stomatal development), histology, confocal microscopy, scientific writing, stress management
Free-time activities: cooking/baking, various outdoor sports,some nerdy stuff - just ask :)
Email: eva.wallner@gmi.oeaw.ac.at
PhD/Previous postdoc position: PhD/University of Dundee (UK)
Scientific interests: Cell signalling, cell biology, stem cells, autophagy, microscopy, Crispr
Free-time activities: Piano, singing, yoga, running, hiking, cooking
Email: riccardo.trapannone@univie.ac.at
PhD/Previous postdoc position: Postdoc, Heyrovsky Institute of Physical Chemistry, Prague
Scientific interests: Structural biology, enzymology
Free-time activities: Writing sci-fi literature, guitar, basketball, cooking
Email: santiago.alonso.gil@univie.ac.at
PhD/Previous postdoc position: Paul Guichard lab, Uni Geneva, Switzerland; Ondrej Stepanek lab, IMG in Prague, Czech Republic
Scientific interests: Cell biology with focus to microtubules, centrosome and cilia; electron microscopy, expansion microscopy, AFM, Brillouin spectroscopy
Free-time activities: sailing, biking, hiking, cross-country skying, oil painting, cooking, gardening
Email: marketa.schmidt.cernohorska@univie.ac.at
PhD/Previous postdoc position: PhD at VIB Ghent, Belgium
Scientific interests: Genetic diversity, GWAS, quantitative genetics, plant biology
Free-time activities: raising kids, sports, reading, cooking, music
Email: clauw.pieter@gmail.com
PhD/Previous postdoc position: PhD at University of Greifswald, Baltic Sea
Scientific interests: Microbiology, Mass Spectrometry, Protein Biochemistry
Free-time activities: Sports
Email: sabryna.junker@imp.ac.at
PhD/Previous postdoc position: PhD at MFPL, Vienna
Scientific interests: Single molecule microscopy, liquid-liquid phase separation, fluorescent microscopy, biochemistry
Free-time activities: Cooking, dancing, reading, parenting
Email: laura.gallego.valle@univie.ac.at
PhD/Previous postdoc position: IMP VIenna/Gurdon Institute University of Cambridge UK/ETH Zurich, Switzerland
Scientific interests: Microscopy (Light, electron), Genetics, Genetics screens, Drosophila, Tissue Culture
Free-time activities: Basketball, Urban Gardening, Sustainability
Email: jeroen.dobbelaere@univie.ac.at
PhD/Previous postdoc position: PhD at Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel
Scientific interests: Genetics, microbiology, RNA-seq
Free-time activities: Baking, arts & crafts, exploring Vienna :)
Email: maya.voichek@imba.oeaw.ac.at
PhD/Previous postdoc position: PhD at the University of Zurich, Switzerland
Scientific interests: Genomic Integrity, Chromosome Architecture, High-content Microscopy
Free-time activities: Social issues, Board Games, Sci-Fi, Basketball
Email: federico.teloni@imba.oeaw.ac.at
PhD/Previous postdoc position: PhD at iNano, Aarhus Universitet, Denmark
Scientific interests: NMR, Structural Biology
Free-time activities: sports (everything which involves mountains, walls, rocks, steep paths/roads and stuff), music, cooking/baking, reading
Email: julian.holzinger@univie.ac.at
PhD/Previous postdoc position: PhD at the Bijvoet Centre for Biomolecular Research - Utrecht - The Netherlands
Scientific interests: Protein purification, protein biochemistry (protein protein interaction assays), protein aggregation, neurodegeneration, autophagy
Free-time activities: Making music, sport, travels, literature&philosophy
Email: luca.ferrari@univie.ac.at
PhD/Previous postdoc position: Postdoc at the Neurology department, University Clinic Regensburg, Germany
Scientific interests: Mouse models of neuroinflammation and demyelination. Techniques: IHC, Flow cytometry, cell culture, microscopy.
Free-time activities: SciComm, reading, walks by a river, crochet, family and pet time.
Email: maria.gonzalez@imba.oeaw.ac.at
PhD/Previous postdoc position: PhD at University of Bern, Switzerland
Scientific interests: Microbiology, non-coding RNAs, bacterial ribosome
Free-time activities: Sportsy stuff (beach volleyball, skiing/snowboarding,...), going for a drink (preferably combined with a soccer game)
Email: michel.fasnacht@univie.ac.at
PhD/Previous postdoc position: Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, PhD/ Lise Meitner Postdoctoral Fellowship, IMBA
Scientific interests: Organoids, Clinical embryology, Infertility, confocal microscopy
Free-time activities: Soccer, Volleyball, Board Games, Sci-Fi, Basketball
Email: heidar.heidari.khoei@imba.oeaw.ac.at