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Alumni Network
We strive to keep in touch with all alumni to share important news and invite them to upcoming events.
It would be great, if you could provide us with the some information that is important for us using the Admission Form MPI Age Alumni Network. Please send the filled form back to alumni-office(at)age.mpg.de!
LinkedIn Network Group
We cordially invite you to join the LinkedIn network group of the Max Planck Institute for Biology of Ageing. We would be happy, if you sign up and become a member of our network group!
The main purpose of the group is to promote collaboration and exchange between current members and alumni of our institute and to inform about upcoming, interesting events. Within our LinkedIn group you can share any career-related information i.e. your own experience and success stories, provide tips, post events and job offers.
Of course, being a member of our network group allows you to view the professional profiles of other group members for your networking purposes - no matter if you have a scientific or a non-scientific background.
In addition to your group membership, we kindly ask you to provide us with your current, valid email address and your current position. Having your updated contact allows us to keep you up to date about new developments and upcoming events at the Max Planck Institute for Biology of Ageing.
Please send your email contact details to the MPI alumni office:
alumni-office(at)age.mpg.de
We are looking forward to getting in contact with you!
LinkedIn Network Group
We cordially invite you to join the LinkedIn network group of the Max Planck Institute for Biology of Ageing. We would be happy, if you sign up and become a member of our network group!
The main purpose of the group is to promote collaboration and exchange between current members and alumni of our institute and to inform about upcoming, interesting events. Within our LinkedIn group you can share any career-related information i.e. your own experience and success stories, provide tips, post events and job offers.
Of course, being a member of our network group allows you to view the professional profiles of other group members for your networking purposes - no matter if you have a scientific or a non-scientific background.
In addition to your group membership, we kindly ask you to provide us with your current, valid email address and your current position. Having your updated contact allows us to keep you up to date about new developments and upcoming events at the Max Planck Institute for Biology of Ageing.
Please send your email contact details to the MPI alumni office:
alumni-office(at)age.mpg.de
We are looking forward to getting in contact with you!
Alumni Team of the MPI for Biology of Ageing
Alumni Antebi
Department Antebi
| At the MPI | Name | Function | relocated to | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 09/2016 - 2/2022 | Till Popkes-van Oepen | PhD, then Postdoc | Data Governance Consultant, Osthus, Germany | |
| 05/2016 - 12/2021 | Luca Dolfi | Postdoc | ||
| 04/2017 - 12/2021 | Balaji Srinivasan | Postdoc | ||
| 10/2015 - 07/2021 | Andrea Annibal | Postdoc | ||
| 01/2019 - 12/2020 | Chiara Calabrese | Postdoc | Scientist as Global Technical Support, Miltenyi Biotec, Bergisch Gladbach, Germany | |
| 01/2014 - 10/2020 | Rebecca George Tharyan | PhD Student, then Postdoc | Postdoctoral Scientist, Institute of Biochemistry, Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany | |
| 10/2018 - 09/2020 | Anna Luise Weber | Technical Assistant | Student | |
| 11/2013 - 09/2020 | Sarah Denzel | PhD Student | Project Manager EIT Health, Cologne, Germany | |
| 11/2010 - 07/2020 | Thorsten Bücher | Master Student | PhD student at nephrolab (CECAD), Cologne, Germany | |
| 10/2014 - 05/2020 | Kew Chun | PhD Student, then Postdoc | Postdoc at Goethe University, Frankfurt, Germany | |
| 11/2014 - 03/2020 | Isabelle Schiffer | PhD Student | PR&Scientific Outreach, Forever Healthy Foundation, Karlsruhe, Germany | |
| 10/2018 - 09/2019 | Murat Alpaslan | Master Student | PhD student, de Duve Institute, Brussels, Belgium | |
| 07/2018 - 07/2019 | Maribel Schonewolff | Master Student | PhD student, University of Oxford, United Kingdom | |
| 10/2011 - 03/2019 | Özlem Karalay-Karabiber | Postdoc | Senior Scientist, QIAGEN | |
| 08/2010 - 02/2018 | Christoph Geisen | Scientific and Personal Assistant | Scientific Coordination, Behavior and Brain Organization, caesar, Bonn, Germany | |
| 11/2012 - 11/2017 | Varnesh Tiku | PhD Student, then Postdoc | Postdoctoral Scientist at Genentech, San Francisco, CA, USA | |
| 07/2016 - 08/2017 | Natalie Beck | Master Student | ||
| 10/2015 - 05/2017 | Parul Mehrotra | Postdoc | Postdoctoral fellow, VIB, Ghent, Belgium | |
| 10/2013 - 04/2017 | Philipp Jäger | PhD Student | Lab head at Eurofins Umwelt West GmbH, Germany | |
| 03/2013 - 12/2016 | Megumi Hashiguchi | Postdoc | Project Manager at BioM Biotech Cluster Development GmbH, Munich, Germany | |
| 08/2014 - 12/2016 | Sina Reichardt | Technical Assistant | Techn. assistant at Uni-Cologne, Germany | |
| 09/2014 - 07/2016 | Hanjie Li | Postdoc | Postdoctoral fellow at Weizmann Institut, Israel | |
| 09/2014 - 05/2016 | Julia Noack | Postdoc | Postdoc, UCSF, San Francisco, USA | |
| 11/2011 - 03/2016 | Shuhei Nakamura | Postdoc | Associate Professor, Graduate School of Frontier Biosciences, Osaka University, Japan | |
| 02/2013 - 03/2016 | Kayo Nakamura | Technical Assistant | Usaka University, Japan | |
| 09/2009 - 12/2015 | Makoto Horikawa | Postdoc | Assistant professor at Hamamatsu Univ School of Medicine, Japan | |
| 09/2009 - 05/2015 | Ben Becker, PhD | PhD Student, then Postdoc | Scientist/Group leader at Eurofins Umwelt West GmbH, Germany | |
| 09/2012 - 01/2015 | Sabine Finkler | PhD Student | Charité Berlin, Germany | |
| 08/2009 - 10/2014 | Yidong Shen, PhD | Postdoc | Group leader at Chinese Academy of Science, Institution of Biochemistry and Cell biology, Shanghai, China | |
| 10/2010 - 08/2014 | Martin Denzel | Postdoc | Research group leader at Max Planck Institute for Biology of Ageing, Cologne, Germany | |
| 05/2009 - 08/2014 | Simone Ihloff | Technical Assistant | Techn. assistant at MPI for Physics of Light | |
| 01/2011 - 08/2014 | Nadia Jin Storm Hansen | PhD Student | Innovation and Life Science Advisor at Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Denmark | |
| 09/2009 - 10/2013 | Daniel Magner, PhD | Postdoc | President and Co-Founder, IAM Scientific, Greenville, South Carolina, USA | |
| 09/2009 - 03/2013 | Joshua Wollam, PhD | PhD Student, then Postdoc | Postdoctoral fellow at UCSD, Study Director: Inflammation and Immunology, Crown Bioscience, San Diego, USA | |
| 02/2011 - 08/2012 | Caroline Hoppe | Technical Assistant | Studies of Biotechnology | |
| 07/2011 - 06/2012 | Carmen Montino | Technical Assistant | Techn. assistant in industry | |
| 03/2010 - 02/2011 | Anne-Francoise Ruaud | Postdoc | Boston Consulting, Paris, France |
| At the MPI | Name | Function | relocated to |
|---|---|---|---|
| 08/2020 - 04/2022 | Emanuel Bruckisch | PhD student | |
| 01/2018 - 12/2021 | Thomas MacVicar | Postdoc | Junior Group Leader, CRUK Beatson Institute, Glasgow, UK |
| 09/2018 - 06/2021 | Yvonne Lasarzewski | PhD student | |
| 07/2018 - 06/2021 | Kai Blau | PhD student, then PR officer | Research Analyst, Biotech Schleuning GmbH, Frankfurt am Main, Germany |
| 10/2014 - 06/2020 | Hans-Georg Sprenger | PhD student, then Postdoc | Postdoctoral Researcher, Spiegelman lab, Harvard Medical School&Dana-Farber, USA |
| Name | Status | At the MPI | relocated to |
|---|---|---|---|
| Beylebens, Marius | Technician | 01/2014-05/2015 | |
| Busch, Jakob | PhD Student | 07/2013-03/2011 | Postdoc, AG Prof. N. Wiedemann / Prof. N. Pfanner, Institute of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Freiburg, Germany |
| Dirksen-Schwanenland, Caren | Master Student | 09/2015-12/2016 | Amgen, Munich, Germany |
| Intern | 09/2014-12/2014 | ||
| Filipovska, Aleksandra | Guest Scientist | 01/2014-06/2016 | |
| Freyer, Christoph | Postdoc | 10/2008-09/2012 | clinical chemist & junior group leader at the Karolinska University Hospital/ Karolinska Institutet Stockholm, Sweden |
| Gaschina, Stefanie | Technician | 10/2012-09/2016 | |
| Gorsler, Vanessa | Technician | 04/2012-10/2012 | |
| Harmel, Julia | Phd Student | 10/2009-01/2014 | Clinical Monitoring Associate, Parexel International, Berlin, Germany |
| Hempenstall, Sarah | Guest Scientist | 08/2012-10/2012 | |
| Jiang, Min | Postdoc | 07/2014-06/2019 | Assistant Professor in Westlake University |
| Kauppila, Johanna | PhD Student, Postdoc | 09/2012-12/2018 | Cologne, Germany |
| Kauppila, Timo | PhD Student | 09/2012-08/2018 | Bioinformatic Scientist, NEO New Oncology Gmbh (Siemens Healthineers), Cologne, Germany |
| Kühl, Inge | Postdoc | 04/2011-12/2016 | Researcher at CNRS, Institut de Biologie Intégrative de la Cellule (I2BC), Paris, France |
| Kukat, Christian | Postdoc | 02/2009-12/2013 | Head of Imaging Facility, MPI-AGE |
| Lagouge, Marie | Postdoc | 01/2013-12/2014 | Researcher Level 2 at the CNRS (National Center for Scientific Research), Paris, France. |
| Lee, Hyun Ju | Postdoc | 06/2012-05/2015 | PostDoc, CECAD, Cologne, Germany |
| Matic, Stanka | Phd Student | 04/2012-01/2017 | PostDoc, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität, Freiburg, Germany |
| Meiners, Banu | Technician | 09/2009-02/2010 | |
| Metodiev, Metodi | Postdoc | 10/2008-09/2012 | Researcher Level 1 at the INSERM (French Institute of Health and Medical Research), Paris, France. |
| Miranda Vergara, Maria del Pilar | PhD Student, Postdoc | 08/2013-03/2019 | |
| Misic, Jelena | Master Student | 01/2017-05/2017 | |
| Intern | 12/2016 | ||
| Mourier, Arnaud | Postdoc | 11/2009-12/2015 | Researcher Level 1 at the CNRS (National Center for Scientific Research), Bordeaux, France. |
| Paganelli, Arianna | Guest Scientist | 06/2011 | |
| Park, Chan Bae | Guest Scientist | 02/2010-08/2014 | |
| Polosa, Paola | Guest Scientist | 02/2012-04/2016 | |
| Preilowski, Julia | Technician | 07/2014-06/2016 | |
| Rackham, Oliver | Guest Scientist | 05/2016-06/2016 | |
| Guest Scientist | 06/2015-08/2015 | ||
| Guest Scientist | 06/2014-12/2014 | ||
| Ruzzenente, Benedetta | Postdoc | 04/2010-08/2015 | Associate Professor, Université Paris Descartes - Paris 5, Paris, France |
| Schäfer, Sarah | Bachelor Student | 03/2013-05/2013 | |
| Schwab, Stephanie | Bachelor Student | 06/2011-08/2012 | |
| Technician | 04/2010-05/2011 | ||
| Stewart, James Bruce | Postdoc | 03/2009-02/2014 | Research Group Leader, MPI-AGE |
| Terzioglu, Mügen | Postdoc | 10/2008-01/2014 | PostDoc, University of Helsinki, Finland |
| Todorova, Vyara | Master Student | 11/2015-01/2017 | PhD student, University of Zurich, Switzerland |
| Intern | 09/2015-10/2015 | ||
| Waclawek, Simone | Technician | 04/2011-04/2013 | |
| Wredenberg, Anna | Postdoc | 01/2010-03/2012 | junior group leader at the Karolinska Institutet/ Karolinska University Hospital Stockholm, Sweden |
Department Partridge
| At the MPI | Name | Position | Relocated to |
|---|---|---|---|
| 04/2012 - 01/2022 | Oliver Hendrich | Lab Manager | Science Infrastructure Manager, EMBL, Germany |
| 03/2017 - 12/2021 | Lisa Drews | PhD Student, Postdoc | Field Application Specialist, MIMETAS BV, the Netherlands |
| 04/2019 - 03/2020 | Andrea Müller-Hartmann | Technical Assitant | Technical Assitant, Institute for Developmental Biology University of Cologne, Germany |
| 02/2014 - 02/2020 | Paula Juricic Dzankic | PhD Student, Postdoc | Postdoc, EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland |
| 03/2014 - 10/2019 | Carina Weigelt | PhD Student, Postdoc | Postdoc, Boehringer Ingelheim, Biberach, Germany |
| 03/2015 - 09/2018 | Oliver Hahn | PhD student | Postdoctoral researcher at Wyss-Coray lab, Stanford University, Palo Alto, USA |
| 09/2011 - 07/2018 | Victor Bustos | Postdoc (PhD student until 10/2016) | Fellow, Apollo Ventures, Hamburg, Germany |
| 03/2011 - 05/2016 | Sylvie Burnouf | Postdoc | Health and Science Journalist at APM International, France |
| 10/2015 - 03/2016 | Marianna Gorsky | Postdoc (PhD Student until 01/2016) | Consultant at Monitor Deloitte Strategy |
| 03/2014 - 03/2016 | Paul Essers | Postdoc | Bioinformatics at Nederlands Kanker Instituut, The Netherlands |
| 02/2014 - 01/2016 | Julia Hoffmann | Postdoc | Project manager Clinical Studies AMEDON GmbH, Lübeck, Germany |
| 01/2011 - 08/2015 | Sonita Afschar | Postdoc (PhD Student until 12/2014) | Clinical research associate at Acromion GmbH, Frechen, Germany |
| 06/2012 - 05/2015 | Corinna Hopfen | Postdoc | Regulatory affairs specialist at Stryker Leibinger GmbH & Co. KG, Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany |
| 11/2011 - 02/2015 | Andrew Finlayson | Postdoc | Medical Writer at infill healthcare communication, Königswinter, Germany |
| 05/2012 - 09/2014 | Parisa Kakanj | Postdoc | Postdoc at the Institute for Genetics, University Cologne |
| 01/2009 - 06/2014 | Jennifer Werner | Postdoc (PhD Student until 04/2014) | Freelance clinical research associate |
| 10/2008 - 02/2014 | Brit Neuhaus | Postdoc | Medical writer at Medproduction Redaktionsbüro für Medizin und Gesundheit, Cologne, Germany |
| 08/2009 - 12/2013 | Andrea Mesaros | Senior Postdoc | Head of phenotyping facility, Max Planck Istitute for Biology of Ageing, Cologne, Germany |
| 02/2010 - 12/2012 | Athanasios Metaxakis | Postdoc | Research associate at the University of Crete, Greece |
| 06/2009 - 10/2011 | Samira Bina | Postdoc | Clinical Research Associate at INC Research, Munich, Germany |
| At the MPI | Name | Function | relocated to |
|---|---|---|---|
| 04/2014 - 12/2021 | David Willemsen | PhD student, Postdoc | Qiagen, Germany |
| 03/2018 - 09/2021 | Aleksandra Placzek | technical assistant | Bergami group, CECAD, Cologne, Germany |
| At the MPI | Name | Function | relocated to |
|---|---|---|---|
| 03/2021 - 02/2022 | Mara Neuerburg | Master student | |
| 05/2021 - 07/2021 | Elise Barteld | Intern | PhD student, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA |
| Name | Status | At the MPI | relocated to |
|---|---|---|---|
| Makkou, Maria | Guest scientist | 05/2017 - 07/2017 | |
| de Polo, Anna | Postdoc | 03/2017 - 07/2017 |
| At the MPI | Name | Function | relocated to |
|---|---|---|---|
| 03/2015 - 08/2021 | Sabine Ruegenberg | PhD Student, then Postdoc | Staff Scientist, Protein Production Core Facility, Institute of Molecular Biology gGmbH, Mainz, Germany |
| 01/2015 - 03/2022 | Felix Mayr | PhD Student | Scientist, Altos Labs, Cambridge, UK |
| Name | Status | at the MPI | Relocated To |
|---|---|---|---|
| Thomas, Ryan | PhD student | 10/2016 - 07/2021 | Regional Medical Advisor, Novo Nordisk, North West England, UK |
| Brutscher, Fabienne | Intern | 04/2017 - 05/2017 | |
| Dehnen, Jasmin | Intern | 02/2015 - 04/2015 | |
| Drescher, Ingmar | Technical Staff | 01/2014 - 06/2016 | |
| Pascual Velazquez, Ariadna | PhD student, then Postdoc | 02/2014 - 08/2020 | Product Manager, Miltenyi Biotec, Bergisch Gladbach |
Research Group Habermann
| At the MPI | Name | Position | Relocated to |
|---|---|---|---|
| 04/2010 - 06/2013 | Bianca H. Habermann | Group Leader | Max Planck Institute for Biochemistry, Martinsried |
| 05/2011 - 06/2013 | Marius Garmhausen | Student Assistant | Postdoc Data Science bei Roche, Roche Diagnostics GmbH (since Feb 2017) |
| 05/2012 - 06/2013 | Falko Hofmann | Master Student | |
| 05/2011 - 06/2013 | Kapil Jhalani | Student Assistant | Max Planck Institute for Biochemistry, Martinsried |
| 01/2012 - 06/2013 | Krishnakumar Kandaswamy | PostDoc | Max Planck Institute for Biochemistry, Martinsried |
| 02/2013 - 08/2013 | Daniel Kellermann | Student Assistant | |
| 01/2011 - 06/2013 | Prasanna Koti | PhD-Student | Max Planck Institute for Biochemistry, Martinsried |
| 05/2011 - 06/2013 | Arno Meiler | Student Assistant | Max Planck Institute for Biochemistry, Martinsried |
| 01/2011 - 06/2013 | Serghei Novojilov | PhD Student | Max Planck Institute for Biochemistry, Martinsried |
| 09/2011 - 01/2014 | Nicole Philippi | PostDoc | |
| 11/2011 - 12/2012 | Caroline Meharg (nee Reiff) | PostDoc | |
| 09/2010 - 06/2013 | Su Sun | PhD-Student | Max Planck Institute for Biochemistry, Martinsried |
| 02/2011 - 06/2013 | José Villaveces | PhD-Student | Max Planck Institute for Biochemistry, Martinsried |
| At the MPI | Name | Function | relocated to |
|---|---|---|---|
| 05/2020 - 01/2021 | Pablo San Segundo | Postdoc |
| At the MPI | Name | Function | relocated to |
|---|---|---|---|
| 01/2021 - 12/2021 | Amélie Camille Thérèse Collinet | Intern |
| Name | Status | At the MPI | relocated to |
|---|---|---|---|
| Albaran Gutierrez, Sara | PhD Student | 02/2015 - 08/2020 | |
| Isokallio, Marita | PhD Student | 01/2014 - 12/2017 | Bioinformatics Software Developer at Blueprint Genetics, Espoo, Finland |
| Name | Status | relocated to |
|---|---|---|
| Parekh, Swati | Postdoc | Boehringer Ingelheim Pharma GmbH & Co. KG, Germany |
| Mawer, Julia | Postdoc | Associate Medical Writer, Oxford Pharmagenesis, Oxford, UK |
| Kochan, David | PhD Student | Trainee Patent Attorney, Munich, Germany |
| Reichert, Christina | Master Student | PhD student, University of Dusseldorf |
| Maleszewska, Monika | Postdoc | Senior Technical Project Manager, Personalis Inc., San Francisco, USA |
| Mylonas, Constantine | PhD Student | Postdoc, MIT, Cambridge, USA |
| Grabenhorst, Niklas | Master Student | Study Director, Charles River, Cologne |
MENTORSHIP
Bachelor students:
2016 Maribel Schönewolff
Master students:
2012 Christian Pichlo (Fast track)
2015 Nadja Breidenbach
2016 Stavroulla Artemiou
PhD students:
2015-2021 Janis Koester (now postdoc Roche, Basel, CH)
2010-2014 Jessica Morgner (now postdoc Hubrecht Institute, NL)
2011-2015 Sushmita Ghatak (now postdoc University of Cologne, GE)
2013-2016 Le Quang Huy (now postdoc at NKI, NL)
Postdocs:
2013-2018 Carlos Andrés Chacón Martínez
2011-2013 Kristina Behrendt (now Bayer Healthcare GmbH)
2013-2016 David Schneider (now Bayer Technology Services GmbH)
2014-2015 Ching-Yan Chloe Yeung (now postdoc University of Copenhagen, DK)
2014-2015 Jessica Morgner (now postdoc Hubrecht Institute, NL)
2016-2017 Saman Honarnejad (now scientist at Pivot Park Screening Centre, NL)
| Name | Status | at the MPI | relocated to |
|---|---|---|---|
| Burdeos, Gregor Carpentero | Postdoc | 05/2015-05/2017 | |
| Neuber, Sophie | Technical Staff | 10/2014-09/2016 | |
| Yu, Qianhui | Guest | 09/2015-11/2015 |
Core Facility Bioinformatics
| At the MPI | Name | Position | Relocated to |
|---|---|---|---|
| 01/2017 - 12/2018 | Rafael Ricardo de Castro Cuadrat | Bioinformatician | Postdoc scientist,DIfE, Potsdam-Rehbrücke, Germany |
| 01/2018 - 12/2018 | Camila Duitama | Research Assistant | |
| 04/2010 - 06/2013 | Michael Volkmer | Max Planck Institute for Biochemistry, Martinsried | |
| 05/2010 - 06/2013 | Assa Yeroslaviz | Max Planck Institute for Biochemistry, Martinsried | |
| 11/2011 - 12/2012 | Caroline Meharg (nee Reiff) | Queen's University Belfast |