Weigelworld Alumni

The Weigelworld alumni are listed in alphabetical order, with the last known position.

Filippo Abbondanza (former Intern, 2016) MSc student, University of Edinburgh, UK
Ji Hoon Ahn (former Postdoc, 1998-2001) Professor, Korea University, Korea
Florian Aldehoff (former MS student, 2006-2007) Bioinformatics Staff Scientist, CeGAT, Tübingen, Germany
Stig Andersen (former Postdoc, 2006-2007) Associate Professor, University of Aarhus, Denmark
Chloé-Agathe Azencott (former Postdoc, 2011-2013) Researcher, CBIO, Fontainbleau, France
Sureshkumar Balasubramanian (former Postdoc, 2002-2007) Professor, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia
Ana-Cristina Barragan Lopez Postdoc, The Sainsbury Laboratory (TSL), Norwich, UK
Claude Becker (former Postdoc, 2010 to 2016) Professor, LMU, Munich
Felix Bemm Staff Scientist, KWS Saat SE, Einbeck, Germany
Daniela Bezdan (former PhD student, 2005-2009) CSO, Poppy Health and Research, Tübingen
Anita Bianchi
Paul Bilinski (former Postdoc, 2016-2017) Associate professor, West Shore Community College, MI, USA
Miguel Blázquez (former Postdoc, 1996-2000) Professor, IBMCP, Valencia, Spain
Helena Boldt (former MS student, 2008-2009) Research Assistant, Childrens Hospital Boston
Kirsten Bomblies (former Postdoc, 2004-2009) Professor, ETH Zürich Switzerland
Karsten Borgwardt (former Group Leader) Professor, ETH Zürich, Switzerland
Marie Bouteillé (visiting PhD student, 2009-2010) Postdoc, INRA, Montpellier, France
Felix Breden (Sabbatical visitor, 2003) Professor, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, Canada
Hernán Burbano (former Postdoc, 2012-2014) Associate Professor, UCL, London, UK
Maximilian A. Busch (former Postdoc, 1996-2000) Sales Representative, Tecniplast, Germany
Wolfgang Busch (former PhD student, 2004-2008) Professor, Salk Institute, La Jolla, USA
Jun Cao (former Postdoc, 2007-2012) Staff Scientist, Dow Agrosciences, Indianapolis, IN, USA
Giovanna Capovilla (former PhD student, 2013-2017) Postdoc, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA
Pablo Carbonell (Former Postdoc, 2018-2022) Senior Scientist, CSIC, Grape and Wine Research Institute (ICVV), Logroño, Spain
Jim Carrington (Sabbatical visitor, 2008) President, Donald Danforth Plant Science Center, St. Louis, MO, USA
Eunyoung Chae (former Postdoc, 2007-2017) Assistant Professor, National University of Singapore
Susan K. Christensen (former Postdoc, 1996-2000)
Michael Christie (former Postdoc, 2012-2014) Patent Attorney, Sydney, Australia
Richard Clark (former Postdoc, 2004-2008) Professor, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, USA
Silvio Collani (former Postdoc, 2012-2015) Postdoc, Umeå Plant Science Centre, Sweden
Max Collenberg (former PhD Student, 2016-2022) GMP Expert, Catalent, Schorndorf
Adrián Contreras (former PhD Student, 2018-2024) Postdoc, Université de Lille, Lille, France
Vinicius Costa Galvão (former PhD student, 2008-2013) Postdoc, Bayer CropScience, Frankfurt
Sandip Das (former Postdoc, 2002-2004) Associate Professor, University of Delhi, New Delhi, India
Timothy Davison (former Postdoc, 2004-2005) Vice President, Almac Diagnostics, Craigavon, UK
Oliver Deusch (former Postdoc, 2018-2022) Scientific Product Manager, Computomics, Tübingen
Jane Devos (former PhD student, 2013-2016) Staff scientist, Symrise, Madagascar
José Dinenny (former PhD student, 2001-2005) Professor, Carnegie Institution, Stanford, USA
Wei Ding (former MS student)
Ezgi Dogan (former MS student, 2015-2016) PhD student, Center for Plant Molecular Biology, Tübingen, Germany
Christian Dreischer (former MS student, 2011-2012) Scientific Analyst, Computomics GmbH, Tübingen, Germany
Christine Dreyer (former Group leader, 2003-2013) retired
Marion Dubarry (former MS Student, 2015) Bioinformatics Engineer, Genoscope, Evry, France
Moisés Expósito Alonso (former PhD student, 2014-2018) Staff Associate and Assistant Professor by courtesy, Carnegie Institution of Science and Stanford University, USA
Nasim Farahani (former Intern, 2017) PhD student, University of Lausanne, Switzerland
Sarah Fehr (former MS student, 2006-2007) Staff Scientist, CeGaT, Tübingen, Germany
Felipe Fenselau de Felipes (former PhD student, 2005-2010) Senior Research Associate, QUT, Brisbane, Australia
Tatiana Feuerborn (former Intern, 2015) PhD student, Center for Geogenetics, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
Joffrey Fitz (former Software Developer, 2008-2013) Consultant, Praia, Cabo Verde
Bonnie Fraser (former Postdoc, 2011-2016) Senior Lecturer, University of Exeter, UK
Gregory F. Gocal (former Postdoc, 1997-2000) Sr. Vice President, Cibus Genetics, San Diego, CA, USA
François Godard (former Postdoc, 2001-2002) deceased
Alba Gonzalez Project Manager, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT
Vojislava Grbic (Sabbatical visitor, 2004-2008) Associate Professor, Western University, Ontario, Canada
Dominik Grimm (former PhD student, 2010-2015) Professor, Weihenstephan-Triesdorf University of Applied Science, Freising
Ya-Long Guo (former Postdoc, 2005-2011) Professor, Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
Rafal Gutaker (former Postdoc, 2014-2017) Research Leader, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, London, UK
Jörg Hagmann (former PhD student, 2009-2015) Analyst, Computomics, Tübingen, Germany
Stefan Henz (former Staff Scientist, 2003-2015) Senior Bioinformatician, PreOmics GmbH, Martinsried, Germany
Ken Heyndrickx (visiting PhD student, 2014) Staff Scientist, Bayer Cropscience, Ghent Belgium
Julia Hildebrandt (Technician) Staff Scientist, CeGaT, Tübingen
William Ho (former PhD student, 2008-2012) Postdoc, MIG, The University of Melbourne, Australia
Margarete Hoffmann (former Staff scientist, 2003-2014) retired
Ray Hong (former PhD student, 1998-2002) Professor, California State University Northridge, CA, USA
Daniel Horrer (fomer MS student, 2011-2012) IT consultant, PTA, Munich, Germany
Tina Hu (visiting PhD student) Director of Bioinformatics, Elysium, USA
Stefanie Hueber (former PhD student, 2004-2007) Project Leader, University of Konstanz, Germany
Patrick Huether (former Diploma student, 2016) PhD student, Gregor Mendel Institute, Vienna, Austria
Noemie Jelly (visiting PhD student, 2008) Research Engineer, IBMC, Strasbourg, France
Dino Jolic (former PhD student, 2011-2018)
Talia Karasov Assistant Professor, School of Biologica Sciences, University of Utah
Igor V. Kardailsky (former Postdoc, 1995-1997) Senior Bioinformatics Scientist, Qiagen, Aarhus, Denmark
Darya Karelina (former PhD student, 2010-2015)
Matthias Karnahl (former MS student, 2010)
Johannes Kaut (former MS/PhD student, 2010-2012) Junior Manager Communications, Convensis Group, Stuttgart, Germany
Sonja Kersten Bioinformatic analyst, Computomics, Tübingen, Germany
Min Chul Kim (former Postdoc, 2002-2005) Associate Professor, Gyeongsang National University, Jinju, Korea
Sang-Tae Kim (former Postdoc, 2007-2014) Assistant Professor, The Catholic University of Korea, Korea
Yasushi Kobayashi (former Postdoc, 2003-2010)
Verena Kottler (former PhD student, 2009-2015) Postdoc, University of Würzburg, Germany
Christian Kubica (former PhD student 2016-2022) Bioinformatics Scientist, Computomics, Tübingen
Franceli Kulcheski (visiting PhD student, 2011-2012) Postdoc, UFRGS, Porto Alegre, Brazil
Axel Künstner (former Postdoc, 2012-2014) Postdoc, LIED, University of Lübeck, Germany
Frank Küttner (former Technician, 2002-2014) retired
Daniel König (former Postdoc, 2010-2015) Assistant Professor, UC Riverside, CA, USA
Roosa Laitinen (former Postdoc, 2007-2011) Associate Professor, University Helsinki, Finland
Tobias Langenecker (former PhD student, 2010-2015)
Christa Lanz (former Technical Staff scientist/ Genome Center, 2000-2022) retired
Sergio Latorre Postdoc, University College London (UCL), UK
Sascha Laubinger (former Postdoc, 2006-2009) Professor, University of Oldenburg, Germany
Sarah Lechner (former MS student, 2006-2007) Staff Scientist, CeGaT, Tübingen, Germany
Ilha Lee (former Postdoc, 1995-1998) Professor, Seoul University, Korea
Andrea Leibfried (former MS student, 2004-2005) Editor, Life Science Alliance
Janne Lempe (former PhD student, 2002-2006) Research Assistant, Julius-Kühn-Institut, Dresden-Pillnitz, Germany
Lei Li (former Postdoc 2016-2021) Principal Investigator, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), IGDB, Beijing, China
EunCheon Lim (former PhD student, 2012-2016) Research Professor, Cohort Research Center, Chosun University, South Korea
Christoph Lippert (former PhD student, 2008-2012) Professor, Hasso Plattner Institute, University Potsdam
Chang Liu (former Postdoc, 2012-2015) Jun. Professor, Institute of Biology, University of Hohenheim, Stuttgart, Germany
Ingrid Lohmann (former Group leader, 2002-2008) Professor, COS, University of Heidelberg, Germany
Jan Lohmann (former Postdoc and Group leader, 1999-2008) Professor, COS, University of Heidelberg, Germany
Alexis Maizel (former Postdoc, 2002-2005) Professor, COS, University of Heidelberg, Germany
Julin N. Maloof (former Postdoc, 1998-2001) Professor, UC Davis, CA, USA
Pablo Manavella (former Postdoc, 2008-2013) Group Leader, CONICET, Santa Fe, Argentina
Jian-Feng Mao (former Postdoc, 2010-2012) Associate Professor, Beijing Forestry University, China
Carmen Martín Pizarro (former Staff scientist, 2010-2013) Postdoc, CSIC, Spain
Ulrike Martyn (former Postdoc, 2003-2004) deceased
Johannes Mathieu (former PhD student, 2004-2009) Product Development Manager, Agri-Neo, Toronto, Canada
Erica Mica (visiting PhD student, 2006) Research Coordinator, Genomics Research Center, Fiorenzuola d’Arda PC, Italy
Grey Monroe Assistant Professor, UC Davis, Davis, CA
Subhashini Muralidharan (former PhD student, 2010-2015) Scientific Writer, inScience Communications, London, UK
Jonas Müller (former PhD student, 2010 to 2017) Bioinformatician, Limbach Group Mainz, Germany
Manuela Neumann Research Technician, Robert-Bosch GmbH, Life Science
Jasmine T. Nguyen (former MS student, 1998-1999) Staff Scientist, Takeda California, San Diego, CA, USA
Ove Nilsson (former Postdoc, 1995-1997) Professor & Director, Umeå Plant Science Center, Sweden
Stephan Ossowski (former PhD student, 2005-2010) Professor, University of Tübingen, Germany
Felix Ott (former PhD student, 2008-2013) Staff Scientist, CeGaT, Tübingen, Germany
Javier Palatnik (former Postdoc, 2001-2005) Head of Laboratory, IBR (CONICET), Rosario, Argentina
François Parcy (former Postdoc, 1996-1998) Directeur de Récherche, CNRS, Grenoble, France
Fiona Paul
Josip Perkovic retired
Sebastian Petersen (former MSc student, 2015-2016) PhD student, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
Jathish Ponnu (former PhD student, 2008-2014) Postdoc, University of Cologne, Germany
David Posé Padilla (former Postdoc, 2009-2013) Group Leader, CSIC, University of Malaga, Spain
Jorge Quintana (former PhD student, 2012-2016) Scientific Manager, Bayer Pharmaceuticals, Berlin, Germany
Leily Rabbani Bioinformatician, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
Barbara Rakitsch (former PhD student, 2011-2014) Postdoc, EMBL, University of Cambridge, UK
Julian Regalado Postdoc, The Globe Insitute, Anders Johannes Hansen Group, Faculty Health, University of Copenhagen
Jens Riexinger (former Technician, 2010-2012) Technician, ALTATEC GmbH, Tübingen, Germany
Andres Romanowski (former visiting Postdoc, 2015) Postdoc, Instituto de Investigaciones Bioquímicas de Buenos Aires, Argentina
Beth Rowan (former Postdoc, 2009-2016) Project Scientist, UC Davis, CA, USA
Ignacio Rubio (former Postdoc, 2006-2015) Associate Professor, CRAG, Barcelona, Spain
Stephen Russell (former Postdoc, 2005-2006)
Patrice Salomé (former Postdoc, 2006-2013) Science Editor, Plant Cell
Juan Diego Santillana Ortiz (former PhD student, 2010-2011) PhD student, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, Germany
Emanuele Scacchi (former Postdoc, 2012-2017) Postdoc, ZMBP, University of Tübingen, Germany
Katrin Schaak (former MS student, 2003-2004) Postdoc, Centre for Regenerative Medicine, Edinburgh, UK
Anna-Lena Schinke (former PhD student, 2009-2012) unknown
Gautam Shirsekar (former Postdoc, 2013-2024) Assistant Professor, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, USA
Markus Schmid (former Postdoc and Project Leader, 2000-2015) Professor, Swedish Agricultural University, Umeå, Sweden
Korbinian Schneeberger (former MS/PhD student, 2006-2010) Professor, LMU, Munich, Germany
Marius Schneider
Carla Schommer (former Postdoc, 2002-2006) Researcher, CONICET, Rosario, Argentina
Rebecca Schwab (former PhD student, 2002-2006) Group Leader, MPI for Developmental Biology, Tübingen, Germany
Gabriele Schweikert (former PhD student, 2005-2009) Principal Investigator, University of Dundee, UK and Cyber Valley, Tübingen
Sabine Schäfer
R. Allen Sessions (former Postdoc, 1997-2000) Team Leader, Bayer CopScience, Research Triangle Park, NC, USA
Danelle Seymour (former PhD student, 2011-2015) Assistant Professor, UC Riverside, CA, USA
Or Shalev (former PhD student, 2016-2021) Postdoc, Systems Biology of Microbial Communities, University of Tübingen
Eshita Sharma (former PhD student, 2009-2013) Research Associate, Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, University of Oxford, UK
Vipula Shukla (former Postdoc, 1997-1999) Sr. Program Officer, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Seattle, WA, USA
Anandita Singh (former Postdoc, 2002-2004) Associate Professor & Head of Department, TERI University, New Delhi, India
Noemi Skorzinski (former PhD student, 2014-2015) PhD student, Umeå Plant Science Centre, Sweden
Lisa Smith (former Postdoc, 2007-2013) Lecturer, University of Sheffield, UK
Lara N. Soowal (former PhD student, 1993-1998) Lecturer, UC San Diego, CA, USA
Andrea Sprecher (former MS student, 2010-2011) Bioinformatics Staff, CeGAT, Tübingen, Germany
Thanvi Srikant (former Phd student, 2017-2021) Postdoc, ETH Zürich
Anusha Srikant (former PhD student, 2006-2011)
Oliver Stegle (former Postdoc, 2009-2012) Professor, DKFZ, Heidelberg, Germany
Sandra Stehling (former PhD student, 2001-2005) Postdoc, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
Matthias Stein (former MS student, 2006-2007) Research Group Leader, Center for Molecular Cardiology, University of Zurich
Petra Stöbe (former PhD student, 2003-2009) Scientific Staff, CeGAT, Tübingen, Germany
Patric Sulz (former MS student, 2010-2011)
Yuhua Sun (former Postdoc, 2007-2008) Postdoc, University of Georgia, Athens, USA
Sridevi Sureshkumar (former PhD student, 2006-2007) Group Leader, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia
Takuya Suzaki (former Postdoc, 2008) Assistant Professor, National Institute for Basic Biology, Okazaki, Japan
Kelly Swarts (former Postdoc, 2016-2018) Group Leader, Gregor Mendel Institute, Vienna, Austria
Efthymia Symeonidi (former PhD student, 2014-2018) Postdoc, Karasov Lab, University of Utah
Hezi Tenenboim (former MS student, 2007-2008) Academic writer and editor, Textarkana, Berlin, Germany
Michael Thelen (former MS/PhD student, 2017-2018) PhD student, University of Tübingen, Germany
Marco Todesco (former PhD student and Postdoc, 2005-2012) Postdoc, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
Diep Tran (former PhD student, 2011-2016) Staff Scientist, Institut Gustave Roussy, Paris, France
Namita Tripathi (former PhD student, 2004-2009) Postdoc, University of Alberta, Canada
N. Henriette Uhlenhaut (former MS student, 2001-2002) Group Leader, Helmholtz Center, Munich, Germany
Anand Upadhyaya (former Intern, 2014-2015) Medical Student, Washington University St. Louis, USA
Yonca Ural (former MS student, 2013) Postdoc, MPI of Biophysics, Frankfurt am Main
Anna-Lena Van de Weyer (former PhD student, 2014-2018) Bioinformatician, LABOKLIN GmbH & Co.KG
François Vasseur (former Postdoc, 2012-2016) Researcher, INRA, Monpellier, France
Paula Vilchez (former plant manager, 2013-2015)
Janina Vogt (former Technician, 2007-2010)
Yoav Voichek Postdoc, GMI, Vienna, Austria
Takuji Wada (former Postdoc, 1998-2001) Staff Scientist, Hiroshima University, Japan
Vanessa Wahl (former PhD student, 2003-2007) Group Leader, MPI for Molecular Plant Physiology, Golm, Germany
Bridgit Waithaka
Xi Wang (former Postdoc, 2011-2014) Senior Staff Scientist, Bayer Cropscience, Ghent, Belgium
Hua Wang (former Postdoc, 2019-2021) Associate Professor, Huazhong Agricultural University, China
George Wang (former Postdoc, 2010-2016) Self-employed, Davis, CA, USA
Congmao Wang (former Postdoc, 2012-2015) Group Leader, ZheJiang Academy of Agricultural Science, China
Jia-Wei Wang (former Postoc, 2005-2011) Professor, SIPPE, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, China
Norman Warthmann (former MS/PhD student, 2001-2012) Plant Breeding and Genetics Laboratory of the FAO/IAEA, Seibersdorf, Austria
Tanja Weinand (former MS student, 2004-2005) R&D, Gerbion GmbH, Kornwestheim, Germany
Clemens Weiss (Phd student) Postdoc, Stanford University, CA, USA
Jonathan D. Werner (former PhD student, 1999-2004) Principal Lab Systems Engineer, Symantec, Mountain View, CA, USA
Schallum Werner (former PhD student, 2006-2010) Executive Director, Heidelberg Academy of Sciences, Heidelberg, Germany
Anjar Wibowo Assistant Professor, Airlangga University, Surabaya, Indonesia
Philip A. Wigge (former Postdoc and Group leader, 2000-2005) Director, Leibniz Institute of Veg. & Ornament. Crops, Großbeeren, Germany
Eva-Maria Willing (former PhD student, 2007-2011) Bioinformatician, Institut für Hämatopathologie, Hamburg
Rod Wing (Sabbatical visitor, 2009-2010) Professor, University of Arizona,Tucson, USA
Heike Wollmann (former MS/PhD student, 2004-2009) Special Consultant, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
Liang Wu (former Postdoc, 2010-2011) Associate Professor, College of Agriculture and Biotechnology, Zhejiang University, China
Xuelin Wu (former Postdoc, 2000-2007) Visiting Assistant Professor, Harvey Mudd College, Claremont, CA, USA
Rui Wu (former Postdoc, 2015-2018)
Haijia Wu (former MS student, 2008)
Wanyan Xi (former Postdoc, 2013-2016)
Levi Yant (former PhD Student, 2006-2009) Associate Professor, University of Nottingham, UK
Yuan You (former Postdoc, 2011-2016) Independent Scientist, ZMBP, University of Tübingen, Germany
Maricris Zaidem (former PhD student, 2010-2016) Postdoc, Oxford University, Oxford, UK
Georg Zeller (former MS/PhD student, 2005-2009) Team Leader, EMBL, Heidelberg, Germany
Panpan Zhang
Zhong Zhao (former Postdoc, 2006-2008) Professor, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China
Wangsheng Zhu Associate Professor, Chinese Agricultural University, Beijing, China
Gideon Zipprich (former MS student, 2010-2012) Bioinformatician, DKFZ Heidelberg, Germany