Our team
Andreas G. Chiocchetti
Prof. Translational Child Psychiatry
Passionate about working with models to understand human behaviour and neurodiversity.
Biotechnologist by training (Salzburg, Austria), Phd in Genetics, Research Fellow at UCLA, Los Angeles, Data-Scientist in Industry.
Leading|Datadriven|Diversity
Denise Haslinger
Dr. rer. nat
Head of Neuronal Cell Model Working Group
Eager modeller of neuronal development. Expert cell-biologist and geneticist by training (Salzburg, Austria), PhD in Biology (Frankfurt, Germany), Research Fellow and Post-Doc at Institute of Science and Technology Austria (Klosterneuburg, Austria).
Exploring|Neurons|Cell Models
Regina Waltes
Dr. rer. nat.
Biobank Manager
Forensic geneticist by training at the MHH (Hannover, Germany), PhD in Biology (Hannover, Germany), Post-Doc at the Department of Radiotherapy and Special Oncology (Hannover, Germany), Research Fellow at QIMR (Brisbane, Australia), Application Specialist in Industry.
Biobanking|Genetics|Managment
Afsheen Kumar
Dr. rer. nat. Bioinformatics
Bioinformatician by training (Freiburg and Frankfurt, Germany), data wrangler. Currently Family manager.
Inken Berg
Medical PhD Student
Expert in genetics of aggression in conduct disorder
Ritika Saxena
Medical PhD Student
Expert to be in genetics of autism spectrum disorder
In over my head to unravel the code of life
Victor Kasolowski
Medical PhD Student
Expert to be in genetics of conduct disorder and machine learning
Parnian Poursafa
Master Student
Expert to be in genetics of ADHD and polygenic risk score calculations
Selen Ucar
Bachelor student
Expert to be in investigating the effects of maternal immune activation in cerebral organoids
Julia Schwarzpaul
Master Student
Expert to be in neuronal cell models, specific focus on cerebral organoids and iNeurons.
Want to join us?
We offer modules for the Master’s programs Interdisciplinary Neuroscience (Neurobiological Human Cell Models (B11), Computational Translational Psychiatry (B13) and Physical Biology of Cells and Cell Interactions (Investigating the molecular genetics of neuropsychiatry (E23)).
We also supervise Bachelor’s and Master’s theses on cell culture or bioinformatics projects. If you would like to join us, please contact us a few months in advance so that we can plan sufficiently.
For any PhD-positions please contact us directly.
Alumni and former lab members
Marcel Müller
2022 Bachelor student Biology: Effect of inhibition of QPRT on neuronal differentiation in
human cerebral organoids
Julia Schwarzpaul
2022 Bachelor student Biology: Impact of chemical inhibition of the autism-associated quinolinate phosphoribosyltransferase in primary human neuronal progenitor cells
Dr. Mattson S. O. Jones
2018 – 2022 Ph.D. student Biology, characterization of the autism and epilepsy-associated gene DEPDC5 during neuronal differentiation.
Luca Fries
2022-2023 Internship, Digital Labbooks, development of Shiny apps to automate lab processes.