Alumni

Alumni Network

With our MPI Age alumni database we aim to stay in contact with all alumni’s in order to be able to share important news with them 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!

Alumni Team of the MPI for Biology of Ageing

LinkedIn Network Group

Antebi Department

Alumni Antebi

Department Antebi

At the MPI	Name	Function	relocated to
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
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

Larsson Department

Name	Status	At the MPI	relocated to
Beylebens, Marius	Technician	01/2014-05/2015
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

Partridge Department

Department Partridge

At the MPI	Name	Position	Relocated to
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

Research Group Demetriades

Name	Status	At the MPI	relocated to
Makkou, Maria	Guest scientist	05/2017 - 07/2017
de Polo, Anna	Postdoc	03/2017 - 07/2017

Research Group Graef

Name	Status	at the MPI	Relocated To
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

Research Group Stewart

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

Research Group Tessarz

Name	Status	relocated to
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

Research Group Wickström

MENTORSHIP

Bachelor students:
2016   Maribel Schönewolff

Master students:
2012   Christian Pichlo (Fast track)
2015   Nadja Breidenbach
2016   Stavroulla Artemiou

PhD students:
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)

Research Group Xu

Name	Status	at the MPI
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

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MENTORSHIP