Group Members
Group Retreat Fall 2025
Principal Investigator
Julijana Gjorgjieva, PhD
W3 Professor (tenured), Technical University of Munich
Postdocs
Andre Ferreira Castro, PhD
Postdoc, PhD at Ernst Strüngmann Institute (ESI), Frankfurt
Dylan Festa, PhD
Postdoc (joint with Vanessa Stempel, MPI Brain Research), PhD at University of Cambridge, UK
Postdoc, PhD at University of Pittsburgh, US
Luisa Ramirez, PhD
Postdoc (in the lab of Marion Silies, University of Mainz), PhD at Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil
Postdoc, PhD at Göttingen University
PhD students
Claudia Cusseddu
PhD Student, Marie Currie ITN SmartNets
Divyansh Gupta
PhD student, IMPRS for Biological Intelligence
Ingo Fritz
PhD student, MSc in Molecular Biotechnology, TUM
Elizabeth Herbert
PhD Student
Jan-Erik Hühne
PhD student, MSc Neuroengineering, TUM
Filippo Kiessler
PhD student
Shreya Lakhera
PhD Student, Marie Curie ITN SmartNets
Nikos Malakasis
PhD Student
Fabio Veneto
PhD student
Felix Waitzmann
PhD student
Master and BSc students
Martin Ahn
Jan Gendra
Max Geisenheyner
Anna Kogan
Matej Mijanovic
Ricardo Chirif Molina
Andrea Pinke
Max Rensen
Niels Thiemann
Xinyun Sheryl Zhang
Alumni
JaeAnn Dwulet, PhD
Former postdoc (2022-2024), now in consulting
Samuel Eckmann - former PhD student, now a postdoc at Cambridge University
Former PhD student, Graduated 2022, now a postdoc at Cambridge University
Jan Hendrik Kirchner, PhD
Former IMPRS PhD student, Graduated 2023, now working at Anthropic
Dimitra Maoutsa, PhD
Former postdoc (2023-2024), current position unknown
Christoph Miehl, PhD
Former IMPRS PhD student, Graduated 2023, now a postdoc at the University of Chicago
Lisandro Montangie, PhD
Former postdoc (2018-2019), now in data science
Sebastian Onasch, PhD
Former PhD student, Graduated 2025, currently working at KI Macht Schule
Leonidas Richter, PhD
Former PhD student, Graduated 2022, currently Research Scientist at Fraunhofer IIS
Juan Luis Riquelme, PhD
Former IMPRS PhD student, Graduated 2023, now postdoc at ENS Paris
Kai Röth, PhD
Former PhD student, Graduated 2021, now at Goedopweg, Netherlands
Shuai Shao, PhD
IMPRS PhD Student, Graduated 2022, now in industry
Marina Wosniack, PhD
Former Alexander von Humboldt - Capes Foundation postdoctoral fellow (2017-2021), now in industry
Yue Kris Wu, PhD
Former PhD student, Gradudated 2024, now a postdoc at Columbia University
Also many master and bachelor students (extremely non-extensive list)
Huiyu Chu (MSc Bioinformatics, TUM)
Pablo Crespo (MSc Electrical Engineering, TUM)
Michael Deistler (MSNE, TUM)
Fabian Drexel (MSc Physics, TUM)
Lucas Euler (BSc Mathematics, Goethe University Frankfurt)
Anna Eisenmenger (MSc Molecular Biotechnology, TUM)
Bertram Fuchs (MSNE, TUM)
Albert Albesa González (University of Nottingham, UK)
Muhammed Görünen (MSNE, TUM)
Max Hasslberger (MSc Electical Engineering, TUM)
Klaudie Himmatova (Bsc Bioinformatics, TUM)
Ayça Kepçe (MSc Neuroengineering, TUM)
Ashish Rao Mangalore (MSNE, TUM)
Lilly May (BSc, Bioinformatics TUM)
Mikołaj Maurycy Miękus (MSc Biomedical Neuroscience, TUM)
Aishwarya Patel (MSNE, TUM)
Jake Pencharz (MSNE, TUM)
Giulia Amenduni Scalabrino (MSNE, TUM)
Auguste Schulz (MSc Neuroengineering, TUM)
Enes Senel (MSc Computer Science, TUM)
Raul Adell Segarra (Advanced Mathematics and Mathematical Engineering, UPC)
Alyona Starikova (MSNE, TUM)
Alicia Strosche (MSc Neuroscience, Goethe University Frankfurt)
Isabel Tscherniak (BSc Electrical Engineering and Information Technology, TUM)
Alexandra Vormberg (MSc Neuroscience, Goethe University Frankfurt)
Feiyu Wang (MSc Molecular Biotechnology, TUM)
Xingshuo Erik Wen (MSc Electrical Engineering, TUM)
Philipp Werthmann (MSc Physics, TUM)
Alumni Group Photos
Group Retreat Spring 2024
Bernstein Conference 2023
Group Retreat October 2022
August 2018
Escape room, November 2017
