Get-together of our doctoral, student and postdoctoral researchers, and the coordination team of our research training group in the Corona summer 2021
© Uni MS/Erk Wibberg

Project members

Our team includes numerous junior researchers from medicine, natural sciences, mathematics and computer science. They conduct research in the projects of our Collaborative Research Centres, go through a joint training programme in our Intergrated Research Training Group “Multiscale Imaging” and can benefit from supportive opportunities while pursuing their individual career path.

  • Postdoctoral researchers

  • Doctoral researchers

  • Alumni

    • Albers, Antonia, doctoral researcher
      Thesis project: Synthesis and self-assembly behaviour of BODIPY derivates (completed 04/2026, Faculty of Chemistry and Pharmacy)
      Supervisor: Gustavo Fernandez-Huertas, project B02
    • Beckmann, Daniel, doctoral researcher
      Thesis project: (completed 06/2026, Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Sciences)
      Supervisor: Benjamin Risse, project B04
    • Boeckel, Göran Ramin, Dr. med., Clinician Scientist, Department of Nephrology and Rheumatology
      CS-Starter-2023-02 – The role of hyperphosphatemia in endothelial inflammation (Mentor: Marcus Brand)
    • Cufe, Juela, doctoral researcher
      Thesis project: Dynamic PET-MRI for quantification of molecular immune responses
      Supervisor: Philipp Backhaus, Florian Büther, project B02
    • Derstroff, Adrian, doctoral researcher
      Thesis project: Visual analysis of medical flow data (completed, Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Sciences)
      Supervisor: Lars Linsen, project Z01
    • Depke, Dominic, doctoral researcher
      Thesis project: Multimodal molecular imaging in animal models of atherosclerosis (completed 10/2022, Faculty of Biology)
      Supervisor: Michael Schäfers, project C01
    • Dewies, Felix, doctoral researcher
      Thesis project: Targeting S100A9-SAR studies and their consequences for radiotracer development
      Supervisor: Cristian Strassert and Andreas Faust, project A02
    • Drees, Dominik, doctoral researcher
      Thesis project: Efficient out-of-core methods for biomedical volume processing and analysis (completed 10/2022, Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science)
      Supervisor: Xiaoyi Jiang, project Z01
    • Erapaneedi, Raghu, postdoctoral researcher
      Project B04 (Kiefer Lab)
    • Ganter, Charlotte, MedK student
      Project B04 (supervisor: Friedemann Kiefer)
    • Gierse, Florian, MedK student
      Projekt B06 (Betreuer: Philipp Backhaus, Florian Büther)
    • Göbel, Lea, doctoral researcher
      Thesis project: The synthesis of 18F-fluorinated carbohydrates for the application in specific PET-imaging of bacterial infections (completed, Faculty of Chemistry and Pharamcy)
      Supervisor: Andreas Faust, project A04
    • Hagemann, Laura, MedK student
      Project B04 (Supervisor: Friedemann Kiefer)
    • Hau, Jann-Louis, doctoral researcher
      Thesis: Transition metals in bacterial pathogens and innate immune response
      (completed 01/2025, University of Hohenheim)
      Supervisor: Günter Fritz, project A03
    • Havlas, Asli, doctoral researcher
      Thesis project: In vivo imaging of tumor-associated immune cell dynamics using time-lapse MRI
      Supervisor: Max Masthoff
    • Höffgen, Katharina, doctoral researcher
      Thesis project: Amplification strategies for nanobody-based immunodetection with poly-epitope peptides (completed 04/2023, Faculty of Chemistry and Pharmacy)
      Supervisor: Henning Mootz, project A01
    • Imam Chasan, Achmet, postdoctoral researcher
      Projekt C02 (AG Alonso Gonzalez)
    • Jansen, Lea, MedK student
      Project C01 (supervisor: Michael Schäfers)
    • Jürgens, Ricarda, doctoral researcher
      Thesis project: Metabloic priming of monocytes during inflammation in vivo (completed 07/2025, Faculty of Biology), Project C01 (supervisor: Johannes Roth)
    • Kienast, Jonas, MedK student
      Projekt C07 (Betreuer: Jan Rossaint)
    • Kirse, Thomas, doctoral researcher
      Thesis project: Synthese und Charakterisierung photofunktionaler oordinationsverbindungen (completed 04/2024, Faculty of Chemistry and Pharmacy)
      Supervisor: Cristian Strassert, project A02
    • Kronenberg, Katharina, doctoral researcher
      Thesis project: Method development and biomedical applications for mass spectrometry imaging of contrast agents (completed 04/2024, Faculty of Chemistry and Pharmacy)
      Supervisor: Uwe Karst, project B02
    • Landau, Felicitias, doctoral researcher
      Thesis project: Synthesis and radiolabeling of 18F-fluorinated oligosaccharides (completed 10/2022, Faculty of Chemistry and Pharmacy)
      Supervisor: Andreas Faust, project A04
    • Ludwig, Nadine, postdoctoral researcher
      Project B05
    • Matern, Jonas, doctoral researcher
      Thesis project: Selbstassemblierung von pi-konjugierten Molekülen (completed 07/2022, Faculty of Chemistry and Pharmacy)
      Supervisor: Gustavo Fernandez-Huertas, project B01
    • Mauritz, Marco, doctoral researcher
      Thesis project: Analysis of a PET-reconstruction model with applications to dynamic mass reconstruction (completed 10/2024, Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Sciences)
      Supervisor: Benedikt Wirth, project A05
    • Micheva, Maria, doctoral researcher
      Thesis project: (completed 12/2025, Max Planck Insitute of Polymer Research, Mainz)
      Supervisor: Katharina Landfester, project C06
    • Olguin-Olguin, Adan, postdoctoral researcher
      Project C04 (Sorokin lab)
    • Pieper (née van Dülmen), Melissa, postdoctoral researcher
      CRC inSight Start-Up Project: ST-2022-05 – Evaluation of immunogenicity of chemo-enzymatically modified Cap 1 mRNAs
    • Pilger, Christian, postdoctoral researcher
      Faculty of Physics, Bielefeld University
      Project A06 (Huser Lab)
    • Rösner, Lukas, doctoral researcher
      Thesis project: Tools for sequence-specific demethylation of m6A in RNA and cell-specific surface labeling via SNAP-tag (completed 03/2023, Faculty of Chemistry and Pharmacy)
      Supervisor: Andrea Rentmeister, project A01
    • Schache, Daniel, doctoral researcher
      Thesis project: Implementierung, Weiterentwicklung und Optimierung CEST MRT-basierter Methoden (completed 07/2024, Faculty of Physics)
      Supervisor: Verena Hörr, project C05
    • Sharma, Samriti, postdoctoral researcher, Institute of Infectiology, ZMBE
      CRC inSight Start-Up Project: ST-2022-01 – Unravelling the dynamic interplay between neutrophils and
      macrophages following Yersinia pseudotuberculosis infection
    • Wilkens, Markus, doctoral researcher
      Thesis project: Endocytosis mechanism of VE-cadherin
      Supervisor: Dietmar Vestweber, project B03
    • Xia, Min, doctoral researcher
      Thesis project: Plasticity of the leukocyte transmigration route in different tissues
      (completed 12/2024, Faculty of Medicine)
      Supervisor: Dietmar Vestweber, project B03