JahnkeLab

— MEET OUR GROUP MEMBERS

Kevin Jahnke

Emmy Noether Fellow & Max Planck Research Group Leader

Biophysicist. Excited about compartments and drug delivery. Keeps lipid membranes — and the group — from falling apart.

Affiliated with Max Planck Institute for Medical Research, Max Planck School Matter to Life, Excellence Cluster Synthetic Immunology. Trained as a physicist at Heidelberg University, Master’s research with Ulrich Keyser at Cambridge University, PhD at the MPI for Medical Research with Kerstin Göpfrich (Carl Zeiss Fellow, Joachim Herz Fellow), Postdoc with Dave Weitz at Harvard (Feodor-Lynen Fellow/Humboldt Foundation, Harvard GRID Accelerator Fellow).

Go-to-pipetting playlist: Rakede

Gyu Min Hwang

PhD Student

MoBi. Manager, butler and valet for balls of fat for cellular queens.

Go-to-pipetting playlist: Jesus Christ Superstar Live in Concert (Original Soundtrack) for when divine help is needed or Hadestown Live From London in case the vibe gets more morbid.

Mariam Hassan

PhD Student

Molecular Biotechnologist. Your dealer for drugs packaged in better fat drops. Legally.

Go-to-pipetting playlist: Mordlust on Wednesday, Arctic Monkeys’ entire discography on the rest.

Nina Bukowski

PhD Student

Biochemist. Fights fluorescent molecules for a living and occasionally wins.

Go-to-pipetting playlist: Nintendo Bangers ⭐️🕹️ Best Nintendo Music to Game or Chill To (playlist is called like that on spotify don't come at me for adding emojis)

Gabriele Rigano

Master Student

Neither a Physicist nor a Chemist. I dope fatty balls with your favourite polymers.

Go-to-pipetting playlist: I listen to my thoughts.

Timo Woelfer

Master Student

Thomas Lindenhofer

Master Student

Molecular Biologist. One small vesicle for DNA, one giant leap for delivery.

Go-to-pipetting playlist: Deutschrap Classics

Zeynep Cetin

Bachelor Student

Michaela Gabor

Bachelor Student

MoBi. The reason this website exists. Also the reason it's still "under construction."

Go-to-pipetting playlist: songs that will make u think ur in a dystopian teen movie from the 2010s

Jeyanthram Venkatesan

Administrative Assistant

Moved from India to Germany, stayed for the language and culture.

Alumni

Maximilian Fidlin (2026)

The first master student and intern of the group (assistant to the regional manager), who now left with a Bayer Fellowship in his pocket to go to Fritzsche Lab at Oxford for his next internship.

Louisa Schön (2026)

Joined for her Masters' rotation in Biosciences and left as first alumna for her Master thesis at Papavasiliou Lab.

Team

— MEET OUR GROUP MEMBERS

Alumni