Team

Group Leader

MOLECULAR CONTROL OF HUMAN ORGANOGENESIS

Since 2024	Assistant Professorship in Synthetic Tissue Biology, Medical University of Vienna
Since 2015	Group Leader at IMBA
2013 - 2015	Senior postdoc, Vallier lab, SCI, University of Cambridge, UK
2007 - 2013	Postdoc, Pedersen lab, LRM, University of Cambridge, UK
2002 - 2006	PhD – Akhtar lab, EMBL and University of Heidelberg, Germany

MOLECULAR CONTROL OF HUMAN ORGANOGENESIS

Since 2024	Assistant Professorship in Synthetic Tissue Biology, Medical University of Vienna
Since 2015	Group Leader at IMBA
2013 - 2015	Senior postdoc, Vallier lab, SCI, University of Cambridge, UK
2007 - 2013	Postdoc, Pedersen lab, LRM, University of Cambridge, UK
2002 - 2006	PhD – Akhtar lab, EMBL and University of Heidelberg, Germany

Sasha MENDJAN
Group Leader
+43 1 79044/4550
sasha.mendjan(at)imba.oeaw.ac.at

Lavinia CECI GINISTRELLI
PhD Student
+43 1 79044
lavinia.ginistrelli(at)imba.oeaw.ac.at

Anna DIMITRIADI
PhD Student
+43 1 79044
anna.dimitriadi(at)imba.oeaw.ac.at

Vasileios GERAKOPOULOS
+43 1 79044
v.gerakopoulos(at)imba.oeaw.ac.at

Victoria GÜSGEN
+43 1 79044
victoria.guesgen(at)imba.oeaw.ac.at

Tobias ILMER
Research Assistant
+43 1 79044
tobias.ilmer(at)imba.oeaw.ac.at

Stefan JAHNEL
Postdoc
+43 1 79044/4559
stefan.jahnel(at)imba.oeaw.ac.at

Stefan JAHNEL
Postdoc
+43 1 79044/4559
stefan.jahnel(at)imba.oeaw.ac.at

Estela MANCHENO JUNCOSA
PhD Student
+43 1 79044
estela.mancheno(at)imba.oeaw.ac.at

Maximilian MAYRHAUSER
Master Student
+43 1 79044
maximilian.mayrhauser(at)imba.oeaw.ac.at

Amra MUJADZIC
PhD Student
+43 1 79044
amra.mujadzic(at)imba.oeaw.ac.at

Lena PLANK
Research Technician
+43 1 79044
lena.plank(at)imba.oeaw.ac.at

Lena Maria STUMBAUER
Master Student
+43 1 79044
lena.stumbauer(at)imba.oeaw.ac.at

Katarzyna WARCZOK
Research Assistant
+43 1 79044/4551
katarzyna.warczok(at)imba.oeaw.ac.at

Collaborations

We work very closely with

Latos Lab

Vallier Lab

Alumni

Name	Position	Year	Current Position
Tatjana Schmitz	Summer Student	2019
Katherina Tavernini	Master Student	2018-2019	PhD Student at IMBA (Noelia Urbán's Group)
Nastasja Grdseloff	Master Student	2018-2019	PhD Student at University of Potsdam (Salim Seyfried's Group)
Viktoria Frajs	Summer Student	2018	Master Student at University of Heidelberg (Rappold's Group)
Elisa Hahn	Master Student	2017	Technical Assistant at CeMM (Georg Winter's Group)
Axel Pilz	Bachelor Student / RA	2016 / 2017	Working at Fresenius Kabi Austria GmbH
Sejla Salic	RA / Master Student	2015-2016 / 2017	Project Leader at Aelian Biotechnology
Ana Sofia da Silva Lapao	Master Student	2017	PhD Student at University of Oslo (Anne Simonsen's Group)
Madalina Alexandra Mirea	Internship	2017	IMBA Stem Cell Core Facility
Anna Lena Keller	Summer Student	2017
Paloma Solá Castrillo	Summer Student	2016	PhD Student at IRB Barcelona (Salvador Aznar Benita's Group)

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