Current members

Tianyue Xu

Tianyue is a Ph.D. student since the fall of 2025. He develops new macrocyclic receptors based on naphthalimide dyes

Mark Spektor @

Mark is a PhD student and synthesizes macrocycles from PAHs

Swapnil Ghule @

Swapnil is a PhD student since 2022 in our laboratory and is involved in the SFB 953 project

Stefan Unterberg

Stefan is a Master Student and develops new ATP-selective probes

Zikun Lin

Zikun is a Master’s student and works on new nucleotide fluorescent probes

Maryam Akhgar

Maryam is a DAAD PhD student working on a nitrate-sensing project

Ignacio Aburto

Ignacio is a PhD student and works on new macrocycles for nucleotides and nucleic acids

Group pictures

2024
Group picture 2022
Group picture 2020
Group picture 2020
Group picture 2019
Group picture 2017
Group picture 2016

Past members

  1. 2011-2013 Nanett Backmann, Master of Science
  2. 2012-2014 Christoph Müller, Diplom Chemie
  3. 2012-2014 Rene Arnold, Diplom Chemie
  4. 2014 Patrik Frohmader, Master of Science
  5. 2014 Sharon Janz, Master of Science
  6. 2015-2016 Dr. Ramana R. Mittapalli, Postdoc
  7. 2015-2017 Dr. Siva R. Namashivaya, Postdoc
  8. 2016 P. Sivarama Krishnarao, Postdoc
  9. 2016 Dr. Marina Zakharko, Doctor of Philosophy
  10. 2016-2018 Dr. Anil Ravi, Doctor of Philosophy
  11. 2014-2018 Dr. Tatiana A. Shumilova, Doctor of Philosophy
  12. 2017 Hui Ding, Master of Science
  13. 2019 Dan Xu, Master of Science
  14. 2018-2021 Dr. Aleksandr S. Oshchepkov
  15. 2021-2022 Deeksha Mohan, Master of Science
  16. 2023-2023 Fabiano Gargiulo, Master of Science