{"id":21853,"date":"2025-12-25T15:54:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-25T15:54:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.embl.org\/groups\/saka\/?page_id=21853"},"modified":"2026-04-02T09:08:21","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T09:08:21","slug":"alumni-visitors","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.embl.org\/groups\/saka\/alumni-visitors\/","title":{"rendered":"Alumni &amp; Visitors"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Alumni<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>PhD Students<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Wouter-Michiel Vierdag (defended in Dec 2025)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Valeriy Pak (defended in March 2026)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>MSc Thesis Students<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Tatjana Tomek (defended in Jan 2026)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Jennifer Zilke (defended in Oct 2024) <em>&#8212; currently PhD student at Heidelberg University<\/em><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Diana Mengdesh (defended in Sept 2024) <em>&#8212; currently PhD student at EMBL<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Visitors<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Dr. Nada Al-Refaie (Postdoctoral fellow, Muller-Tidow Lab), 2026 &#8211; Present.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Prof. Melike Lakadamyali (sabbatical visitor from UPenn), 2025 &#8211; Present. <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Dr. Yulia Ermakova (Scientific Officer, EMBL GenTechDev Platform), 2022 &#8211; Present.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Dr. Pablo Rivera Meijas (EMBL-Stanford Life Science Alliance Postdoctoral Fellow, Savitski Lab), 2022 &#8211; Present.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Dr. Karin Prummel (Postdoctoral fellow, Zaugg Lab), 2021 &#8211; Present<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Elena Pianfetti (Visiting PhD student from University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy), 2025.                                                                     Corporate Partnership Program Fellow   <em>(shared with Kreshuk Lab)<\/em><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Michelle Almeida de Paz (Visiting PhD student from University of Graz, Austria), 2024.                           <em>(shared with Noh Lab)<\/em><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Dr. Maria Christine Puschhof ( Health + Life Science Alliance Heidelberg Mannheim Postdoctoral Program Fellow, Saez-Rodriguez Lab), 2023-2024.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Jaqueline Geraldis  (Visiting PhD student from University of Campinas,  Brazil ) &#8212; 2023.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Interns<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Jakob M\u00e4eots<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Sama AlMehallawi<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Tim Hudelmaier<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Tom\u00e1\u0161 Mar\u0165\u00e1k<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Christoph Trebesius<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Christofer Richard<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Anna-Maria Hullenman<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Sophia Schelchshorn<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>J\u00e9ssica Bellotto Werlang <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Helin Giris<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Kolja Hildenbrand <em>(joint internship with Dey Lab at EMBL)<\/em><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Yaren Canten <em>(joint internship with Zaugg Lab at EMBL)<\/em><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Berkan Kanmaz<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Justus Fricke<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Teresa Lobo <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alumni PhD Students MSc Thesis Students Visitors Interns<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"embl_taxonomy":[],"class_list":["post-21853","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"embl_taxonomy_terms":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.embl.org\/groups\/saka\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/21853","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.embl.org\/groups\/saka\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.embl.org\/groups\/saka\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.embl.org\/groups\/saka\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.embl.org\/groups\/saka\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21853"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.embl.org\/groups\/saka\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/21853\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23475,"href":"https:\/\/www.embl.org\/groups\/saka\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/21853\/revisions\/23475"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.embl.org\/groups\/saka\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"embl_taxonomy","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.embl.org\/groups\/saka\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/embl_taxonomy?post=21853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}