Meet our team
Lisa Siemers
👩🔬🤝🏻🏋🏼♀️
B.Sc. Molecular Life Sciences
Favorite animal: Leaf sheep
Hobbies: Powerlifting, Travelling
Theme song: It's better when we fake it - TRYM
Useless skill: I can do a bridge
Favorite Organelle: Microtubules
Active in: Team leader, Human Practices (Head), Public Engagement, Modeling, Wet Lab, Dry Lab, Wiki, Wiki text
Maren Hinz
🤽♀️📖🍩
M.Sc. Molecular Life Sciences
Favorite animal: Dog
Hobbies: Waterpolo, Any sports activity, cooking and baking
Theme song: Colors of the wind
Useless skill: Can touch my nose with tongue
Favorite Organelle: Cell membrane
Active in: Team leader, Human Practices (Head), Finance (Head), Fundraising, Wiki, Writing, Wiki text
Andrea Köthe
☕🧬🎻
M.Sc. Molecular Life Sciences
Favorite animal: Dachshund
Hobbies: Playing the violin, Hiking, Drinking (coffee) .. and other
stuff
Theme song: Don't stop believin' - Journey
Useless skill: "Excellent" weather forecasting, vulcan salute
Favorite Organelle: Mitochondria
Active in: Wet Lab (Head), Social Media (Head), Public Engagement, Creative, Wiki, Wiki text
Joel Senador
🍓🐻🎨
M.Sc. Nanosciences
Favorite animal: strawBEARry
Hobbies: Crafting, Gaming, Tabletop games
Theme song: Andrew's Song - IMAscore, shiver down my back
Useless skill: Wiggle my ears, Vulcan salute
Favorite Organelle: Receptors, nom nom
Active in: Wiki (Head), Public Engagement, Creative, Wet Lab, Wiki text
Fanny Ott
💭🌮🦇
M.Sc Molecular Life Science
Favorite animal: Fluffy cat
Hobbies: Drawing, Gaming
Theme song: Chiusella's Waters
Useless skill: I can sleep for 18 hours straight without a
pee-break
Favorite Organelle: Filopodia
Active in: Public Engagement (Head), Finance, Creative, Wet Lab, Wiki, Writing, Wiki text
Lennert Weber
🍻🏖️🍕
M.Sc. Molecular Life Sciences
Favorite animal: Rusty-Spotted Cat
Hobbies: Roundnet/Spikeball, Handball, gaming, Beer
Theme song: What, me worry?
Useless skill: I know how to brew beer
Favorite Organelle: Ribosome
Active in: Fundraising (Head), , Human Practices, Wet Lab, Wiki, Wiki text
Sebastian (Nami) Federle
🙈🐯🐾
B.Sc. Biology
Favorite animal: Cat
Hobbies: Art, Creation, Music
Theme song: Darude - Sandstorm
Useless skill: Roll my tongue
Favorite Organelle: Cell core
Active in: Creative (Head), Public Engagement, Patent, Wiki, Wiki text
Melina Marie Baar
🦆🌻🦐
B.Sc. Nanosciences
Favorite animal: Duck & Axolotl
Hobbies: Road biking, Horseback riding, Baking & Kite flying
Theme song: Sthlm Sunset - Ehrling, as loud as possible
Useless skill: I can touch elbow on elbow behind my back
Favorite Organelle: Endoplasmic reticulum
Active in: Public Engagement, Patent, Creative, Wet Lab, Wiki, Wiki text
Malcolm Rose
☀️📸👽
M.Sc. Molecular Life Sciences
Favorite animal: Octopus
Hobbies: Photography, Gardening, Sketching
Theme song: Wake me up before you go-go
Useless skill: Can catch fly's
Favorite Organelle: The Powerhouse of the Cell! (Mitochondria)
Active in: Social Media, Public Engagement, Human Practices, Wet Lab, Wiki, Creative, Wiki text
Jule Krawietz
🥗☕️🫠
M.Sc. Molecular Life Sciences
Favorite animal: Australian shepherd (w/ different colored eyes
;))
Hobbies: Reading, Baking, Listening to podcasts
Theme song: The Man - Taylor Swift
Useless skill: Combining sayings that don't have the same meaning
to get a new one that makes no sense at all
Favorite Organelle: Cell membrane
Active in: Creative, Collaboration, Social Media, Wet Lab, Wiki, Wiki text
Amelie Geuer
🐨🤞🏼🧚🏽♀️
B.Sc. Molecular Life Sciences
Favorite animal: Babies of any animal
Hobbies: Singing, Writing, Yoga, Strolling
Theme song: Perfecto - Mac Miller
Useless skill: I can read without listening
Favorite Organelle: Lysosomes
Active in: Wet Lab, Wiki, Wiki text
Jonas Westphal
🧬🎹☕️
M.Sc. Molecular Plant Science
Favorite animal: Opossum
Hobbies: Playing the piano, Coffee, Reading
Theme song: Vladimir Horowitz: Variations on a Theme from Bizet's
"Carmen" - Arcadi Volodos
Useless skill: I can braid and have no idea why
Favorite Organelle: Chloroplast
Active in: Wet Lab, Dry Lab, Wiki, Wiki text
Jochen Otto
🌊🥩🐵
B.Sc. Chemistry
Favorite animal: Cod
Hobbies: Fishing, Powerlifting, Cooking
Theme song: Pokémon theme song
Useless skill: Dicing an onion extremely fine
Favorite Organelle: Mitochondria
Active in: Public Engagement, Human Practices, Wet Lab, Wiki, Wiki text
Junsoo Im
🙏🏿🧘🏿♂️👍🏿
M.Sc. Molecular Life Sciences
Favorite animal: Meerkat
Hobbies: Work out, listening to Music, watching Film, Lego
Theme song: My Shot
Useless skill: Can stop listening
Favorite Organelle: Endosome
Active in: Wet Lab, Wiki text
Meet our advisors
Bjarne Klopprogge
🌍🍕🧪
M.Sc. Molecular Life Sciences
Favorite animal: Dassie
Hobbies: Surfing, American Football, Reading
Theme song: Can't hold us
Useless skill: I can juggle
Favorite Organelle: Endoplasmic reticulum
Active in: Advisor
Emilie Scheer
🪐🎵🧬
M.Sc. Molecular Life Sciences
Favorite animal: Dolphin
Hobbies: Dancing, playing the violin
Theme song: It's time - imagine dragons
Useless skill: -
Favorite Organelle: Mitochondria
Active in: Advisor
Finja Schipke
🗺️📓🍪
B.Sc. Molecular Life Sciences
Favorite animal: Koala
Hobbies: Baking, Reading, Traveling
Theme song: Dumb Blonde - Dolly Parton
Useless skill: -
Favorite Organelle: Ribosome
Active in: Advisor
Timon Warschau
🎼🌌🧬
B.Sc. Molecular Life Sciences
Favorite animal: Bat
Hobbies: Playing music (drums and guitar), gaming, snowboarding and
playing board games
Theme song: We Are Number One
Useless skill: Can talk in female voice
Favorite Organelle: Nucleus
Active in: Advisor
Marcel Zimmeck
🏄♀️♫🦠
M.Sc. Molecular Life Sciences
Favorite animal: Quokka
Hobbies: Music, Bouldering
Theme song: Baba Yetu
Useless skill: I can lucid dream
Favorite Organelle: Peroxisome
Active in: Advisor
Meet our PI's
Michael Kolbe
Graduate Chemist
Active in: Primary PI
Mirco Himmel
Graduate Biochemist
Active in: Secondary PI