Active scientific staff
Please inquire for current openings for bachelors-, masters-, and doctoral thesis projects, as well as for postdoctoral positions (see contact). A background in biophysics / biochemistry or in imaging techniques such as electron microscopy or fluorescence microscopy is helpful.
Principal Investigator
Dr. rer. nat. 2007, TUM
Dipl. Phys. 2004, LMU
dietz @ tum.de
twitter: @hendrik_dietz
Thomas Gerling
Postdoctoral Fellow
Dr. rer. nat. 2015, TUM
Dipl. Phys. 2010, LMU
thomas.gerling @ ph.tum.de
Benjamin Kick
Postdoctoral Fellow
Dr. rer. nat. 2017, TUM
MSc Ind. Biotech 2012 TUM
b.kick @ lrz.tu-muenchen.de
Hamid Ramezani
Postdoctoral Fellow
PhD Chemistry, 2014, University of Alberta
hamid.ramezani @ tum.de
Jonas Funke
Postdoctoral Fellow
Dr. rer. nat. 2017, TUM
Dipl. Phys. 2012, TUM
jonasfunke @ mytum.de
Fernanda Pereira
Postdoctoral Fellow
Dr. rer. nat. 2016, U Göttingen
fernanda.pereira @ mytum.de
Klaus Wagenbauer
Postdoctoral Fellow
Dr. rer. nat. 2018, TUM
MSc Physics 2013, TUM
klaus.wagenbauer @ ph.tum.de
Jean-Philippe Sobczak
Postdoctoral Fellow
Dr. rer. nat. 2018, TUM
Dipl. Phys. 2011, TUM
filip @ mytum.de
Katharina Häußermann
Postdoctoral Fellow
Dr. rer. nat. 2018, TUM
MSc Biochem 2011, LMU
haeussermann @ ph.tum.de
Matthias Schickinger
PhD Student
Dipl. Phys. 2011, TUM
matthias.schickinger @ mytum.de
Fabian Schneider
PhD Student
MSc Physics 2014, TUM
fabian.schneider @ tum.de
Fabian Kohler
PhD student
MSc Physics 2015, TUM
fabian.kohler @ mytum.de
Floris Engelhardt
PhD student
MSc Mol. Biotech 2015
TUM
floris.engelhardt @ tum.de
Anna-Katharina Pumm
PhD student
MSc Physics 2016, TUM
annakatharina.pumm @ tum.de
Pierre Stoemmer
PhD student (Physics)
MSc Physics 2017 (TUM)
pierre.stoemmer @ tum.de
Eva Bertosin
PhD student (Physics)
MSc Physics 2017 (TUM)
eva.bertosin @ tum.de
Massimo Kube
PhD student (Physics)
MSc Physics 2017 (TUM)
massimo.kube @ tum.de
Volodymyr Mykhailiuk
PhD student
MSc Mol Biology 2016 (U Göttingen)
volodymyr.mykhailiuk @ tum.de
Christian Sigl
PhD student
MSc Physics 2017 (TUM)
christian.sigl @ tum.de
Elena Willner
PhD student
MSc Physics 2018 (TUM)
elena.willner @ tum.de
Michael Pinner
PhD student (Physics)
MSc Biotech 2017 (UT Vienna)
michael.pinner @ tum.de
Alba Monferrer
PhD student (Physics)
MSc Chemistry 2018 (UC San Diego
alba.monferrer @ tum.de
Sayed Ali Khoshouei
Master's student
(Physics)
ali.khoshouei @ tum.de
Alumni of the lab
PostDocs
Dr. Florian Praetorius (2018)
Postdoctoral Fellow (intermittent)
Currently PostDoc at David Baker's lab
Dr. Britta Coordes (2012)
Postdoctoral Fellow
Currently at Sandoz GmbH
Dr. Veikko Linko (2012-2013)
Postdoctoral Fellow
Currently Research Fellow at Aalto University
Dr. Carlos Castro (2009-2010)
Postdoctoral Fellow
Currently Professor at Ohio State University
Dr. Moritz Mickler (2009)
Postdoctoral Fellow
Currently at Linde AG
Visitors
Prof. Seth Fraden (2017)
Visiting Professor
Brandeis University
PhD graduates
(10) Dr. Katharina Häussermann (2012-2018)
PhD student
Thesis defended on May 17 2018
Title "Zeitaufgelöste Interaktionsanalyse des humanen Transkriptionsfaktors FoxP2."
(9) Dr. Jean-Philippe Sobczak (2012-2018)
PhD student
Thesis defended on Mar 16 2018
Title: "Investigations of the DNA origami folding process."
(8) Dr. Klaus Wagenbauer (2014-2017)
PhD student
Thesis defended on Feb 23 2018
Title: "Shape-programmable 3D finite-size assemblies made from shape-complementary DNA components."
(7) Dr. Florian Praetorius (2012-2017)
PhD student
Thesis defended on Jan 16 2018
Title: "Genetically encoding the spatial arrangement of DNA and proteins in self- assembling nanostructures."
(6) Dr. Philip Ketterer (2013-2017)
PhD student
Thesis defended on Nov 17 2017
Title: "Rotary mechanisms and scientific devices based on DNA"
(5) Dr. Jonas Funke (2012-2017)
PhD student
Thesis defended on Jun 29 2017
Title: "Nanoscale instruments for the positioning of molecules, for the measurement of forces, and for the quantification of conformational equilibria"
(4) Dr. Evi Stahl (2011-2016)
PhD student
Thesis defended on Dec 13 2016
Title: "Modellsystemstudien und Methoden zur Probenherstellung für die Kristallisation komplexer DNA Objekte"
(3) Dr. Thomas Gerling (2010-2015)
PhD student
Thesis defended on Dec 23 2015
Title: "Design and characterization of a nanomechanical two-state DNA-actuator"
(2) Dr. Fabian Kilchherr (2009-2015)
PhD student
Thesis defended on Dec 22 2015
Title: "Single molecule dissection of DNA stacking forces"
(1) Dr. Thomas Martin (2010-2014)
PhD student
Thesis defended on Feb 7 2014
Title: "Functional synthetic DNA nanostructures"
Master's students
Elena Willner (2018) MSc Physics
Christian Sigl (2017) MSc Physics
Pierre Stömmer (2017) MSc Physics
Massimo Kube (2017) MSc Physics
Eva Bertosin (2017) MSc Physics
Simon Barth (2017) MSc Physics
Christian Pfeffer (2016) MSc Physics
Anna-Katharina Pumm (2016) MSc Physics
Christoph Noetel (2016) MSc Physics
Fabian Kohler (2015) MSc Physics
Sofia Ramirez (2015) MSc Physics
Floris Engelhardt (2015) MSc Molecular Biotechnology
Fabian Schneider (2014) MSc Physics
Letizia Meregalli (2014) MSc Physics
Klaus Wagenbauer (2013) MSc Physics
Emanuel Pfitzner (2013) Dipl. Phys.
Michael Glück (2013) Dipl. Phys.
Jonas Funke (2012) Dipl. Phys.
Matthias Schickinger (2011) Dipl. Phys.
Christian Wachauf (2011) Dipl. Phys.
Jean-Philippe Sobczak (2011) Dipl. Phys.
Evi Stahl (2011) MSc Biochemistry
Fabian Kilchherr (2009) MSc Biochemistry
Bachelor's students
Gerion Brüggenthies (2018) BSc Biochemistry
Andrea Hegele (2017) BSc Physics
Natalie Möritz (2017) BSc Physics
Karolona Kadletz (2017) BSc Biochemistry
Viktorija Kozina (2017) BSc Biochemistry
Dominik Voglmaier (2016) BSc Physics
Kevin Meighen-Berger (2016) BSc Physics
Sonja Schlegl (2016) BSc Biochemistry
Andrea Neuner (2015) BSc Munich School of Engineering
Pascal Hauenstein (2015) BSc Physics
Fabian Seebacher (2015) BSc Biochemistry
Max Honemann (2015) BSc Biochemistry
Max Schmalhofer (2015) BSc Biochemistry
Pierre Stömmer (2014) BSc Physics
Elena-Maria Willner (2014) BSc Physics
Vera Hechtl (2014) BSc Physics
Stefan Niekamp (2013) BSc Physics
Josef Huber (2013) BSc Physics
Michael Ostertag (2013) BSc Biochemistry
Susanne Ständer (2013) BSc Biochemistry
Dominik Renn (2013) BSc Biochemistry
Korbinian Liebl (2013) BSc Physics
Fabian Schneider (2012) BSc Physics
Anna-Katharina Pumm (2012) BSc Physics
Patrick Christ (2011) BSc Physics
Enrique Lin Shiao (2011) BSc Physics
Viktor Bogischef (2011) BSc Physics
Victoria Kellner Pascual (2011) BSc Biochemistry