People
Team(In chronological order of joining the group)
Claudia Bank
Principal investigator, Head of Division
✉️ claudia.bank@unibe.ch
Susanne Holenstein
Office manager
✉️ susanne.holenstein@unibe.ch
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Adamandia Kapopoulou
Senior bioinformatician
✉️ adamantia.kapopoulou@unibe.ch
Ianis Vilela
PhD student
✉️ ianis.vilela@students.unibe.ch
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Emma Ochsner
MSc thesis student
Rüya Arslan
MSc thesis student
Amo Ikiror
MSc thesis student
✉️ amo.ikiror [at] students.unibe.ch
Associated Team Members
Zachary Bailey
Associated Postdoctoral researcher (from the Terrestial Ecology Group at IEE)
zachary.bailey@unibe.ch
Dhanya Bharath
Associated PhD student (from Catalina Chaparro Pedraza's Group at EAWAG)
dhanya.bharath@students.unibe.ch
Alumni
(In reverse chronological order of leaving the group)
University of Bern Alumni
- Kerstin Känzig - BSc thesis student (2025)
- Florin Suter - BSc thesis student (2025)
- Jacob Hugh Riina - MSc thesis student (2024-2025)
- Catalina Chaparro Pedraza - Postdoc (2024)
- Loïc Marrec - Postdoc (2020-2024)
- Sabrina Rasch - BSc student, MSc project student (2021-2022, 2024)
- James Ackermann - Student assistant (2024)
- Yannick Jauslin - BSc student (2024)
- Carole Schöpfer - BSc student (2024)
- Marco Louro - PhD student (2017-2024)
- Swastik Patnaik - Associated MSc student (2023-2024)
- Xiaoyue Deng - MSc project student (2023)
- Ana-Hermina Ghenu - PhD student (2016-2023)
- Jessica Rieder - Associated PhD student (2020-2023)
- Juan Li - Postdoc (2020-2023)
- David McLeod - Postdoc (2021-2023)
- Ana Y. Morales-Arce - Postdoc (2020-2023)
- Henrik Jasper - BSc student (2023)
- Giulia Capella - BSc student (2022-2023)
- André Amado - Postdoc (2019-2023)
- Jérôme Stäheli - MSc student (2021-2023)
Gulbenkian Science Institute Alumni
- Massimo Amicone - Associated PhD student
- Davide Cusseddu - Postdoc (2019-2021)
- Mark Schmitz - Data/Lab Manager (2020)
- Lucy Lansch-Justen - Trainee/Programmer (2020)
- Inês Borges - BSc student (2020)
- Lila Fishman - Sabbatical Visitor (2019-2020)
- Alex Wong - Sabbatical Visitor (2019)
- Dragan Stajic - Associated postdoctoral researcher (2019)
- Christian Diwo - Trainee (2019)
- Alexandre Blanckaert - Postdoc (2016-2019)
- Inês Fragata - Postdoc (2016-2019)
- Dinis Seward - Summer project student (2019)
- Vedanth Sriram - Summer project student (2019)
- Manuel Fortunato - MSc project student (2018)
- Sofia Torres - Summer project student (2018)
- Emma Berdan - Visiting postdoc (2018)
- Andreia Teixeira - Trainee (2016)
- Mariana Vidal Pinheiro - Summer project student (2016)
- Telmo Cunha - Summer project student (2016)