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.
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
PhD Chemistry, U Göttingen
fernanda.pereira @ mytum.de
Christian Wachauf
PhD Student
Dipl. Phys. 2011, TUM
christian.wachauf @ mytum.de
Matthias Schickinger
PhD Student
Dipl. Phys. 2011, TUM
matthias.schickinger @ mytum.de
Katharina Häußermann
PhD Student
MSc Biochemistry 2011, LMU
haeussermann @ ph.tum.de
Jean-Philippe Sobczak
PhD Student
Dipl. Phys. 2011, TUM
filip @ mytum.de
Florian Praetorius
PhD Student
MSc Biochemistry 2012, TUM
florian.praetorius @mytum.de
Philip Ketterer
PhD Student
Dipl. Phys. 2012, Mainz
philip.ketterer @ tum.de
Klaus Wagenbauer
PhD Student
MSc Physics 2013, TUM
klaus.wagenbauer @ ph.tum.de
Letizia Meregalli
PhD Student
MSc Physics 2014, TUM
letizia.meregalli @ tum.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
Christian Sigl
Master's student
(Physics)
christian.sigl @ tum.de
Elena Willner
Master's student
(Physics)
elena.willner @ tum.de
Seth Fraden
Visiting Professor
PhD physics 1987 Brandeis University
Alumni of the lab
Former PostDocs
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
PhD graduates
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"
Dr. Evi Stahl (2011-2016)
PhD student
Thesis defended on Dec 13th 2016
Title: "Modellsystemstudien und Methoden zur Probenherstellung für die Kristallisation komplexer DNA Objekte"
Dr. Thomas Gerling (2010-2015)
PhD student
Thesis defended on Dec 23rd 2015
Title: "Design and characterization of a nanomechanical two-state DNA-actuator"
Dr. Fabian Kilchherr (2009-2015)
PhD student
Thesis defended on Dec 22nd 2015
Title: "Single molecule dissection of DNA stacking forces"
Dr. Thomas Martin (2010-2014)
PhD student
Thesis defended on Feb 7th 2014
Title: "Functional synthetic DNA nanostructures"
Master's students
Simon Barth (2017) MSc Physics (exam pending)
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
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