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
Moritz Sturm
Machine Learning Scientist
Physicist by training (Heidelberg, Germany), data and model tamer.
Inken Berg
Medical PhD Student
Physicain by training. Expert in genetics of aggression in conduct disorder
Sophie von Brauchitsch
Dr. med. Clinician Scientist
Physicain by training. Expert in neurology, epilepsy and cellular models
Lasse Wirth
Medcial PhD Student
Expert in genetics and autism specific therapy
Harishny Sarma
Master Student
Expert in cerebral organoids and microscopic imaging. Equal opportunity and diversity assistant.
Marcela Patricio de Almeida
Master Student
Expert in genetics of aggression and emotion regulation
Victor Kasolowski
Medical PhD Student
Expert in genetics of conduct disorder and machine learning
Ritika Saxena
Medical PhD Student
Expert in genetics of autism spectrum disorder
In over my head to unravel the code of life
Want to join us?
We offer modules for the Master’s programs Interdisciplinary Neuroscience (Neurobiological Human Cell Models (B11), Computational Translational Psychiatry (B14) and Physical Biology of Cells and Cell Interactions (Investigating the molecular genetics of neuropsychiatric; E23).
We also supervise Bachelor’s and Master’s theses on cell culture or bioinformatics projects. If you would like to join us, don’t hesitate to contact us a few months in advance so we can plan accrdingly.
For any open Phd position, please contact us directly.
Alumni and former lab members
Julia Schwarzpaul
2024 Master in Interdiciplinary Neuroscience: Functional characterization of the autism associated quinolinate phosphoribosyltransferase in developing human glutamatergic and GABAergic iNeurons
Clara Dröll
2024 Master in Interdiciplinary Neuroscience: The impact of chemical inhibition of the ASD-associated gene QPRT on the differentiation of human stem cell-derived cerebral organoids
Parnian Poursafa
2024 Master in Interdiciplinary Neuroscience: Environmental Risk Factors and Polygenic Scores in ADHD as Predictors of Disorder Severity
Tong Zhao
2024 Master in Interdiciplinary Neuroscience: Genetic effects on conduct disorder associated phenotypes: A polygenic score (PGS) approach
Afsheen Kumar
2014 – 2024: PhD and Post-doc, Bioinformatics: Quantitative genome-wide association studies in autism spectrum disorder
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.