Alumni

Past PhD students

Shuqing Xu [web][gscholar][ORCID]

Shuqing finished his PhD at ETHZ in 2011. After leaving, he went on to become a junior group leader at the Max-Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology in Jena, Germany. He became a professor at the University of Münster, Germany, and is currently a professor at the University of Mainz, Germany.

 


Khalid E.M. Sedeek [gscholar]

Khalid finished his PhD at UZH in 2014. He then returned to Egypt and is now post-doc at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Saudi Arabia.

 


Roman T. Kellenberger [web] [gscholar] [ORCID]

Roman finished his PhD at UZH in 2018. He then went on to pursue a post-doc at the Dept. of Plant Sciences, University of Cambridge, UK.

 

 

Laura Piñeiro Fernández [gscholar] [ORCID]

Laura left academia in 2019 for a job in a Swiss medical consultancy.

 

 

Sri Iyer

Sri finished her PhD at UZH in 2021. She went on to work in industry.

 

Alessia Russo

Alessia finished her PhD at UZH in 2023. She continued to do a post-doc with us and at the University of Zurich.

Past Post-Docs

Kelsey J. R. P. Byers [twitter][web][gscholar][ORCID]

Kelsey was post-doc at UZH 2014-2017. She left the lab for the butterfly genetics group at the Institute of Zoology, University of Cambridge, UK. Kelsey is now a group leader at the John Innes Centre, Norwich, UK.

 

Maximilian Frey [ORCID]

Maximilian was post-doc at UHOH 2017-2020. He left the lab for the Leibniz Institute of Plant Biochemistry, Halle, Germany.

 

Katharina Aschenbrenner

Katharina was a post-doc at UHOH 2019-2020 and left for a job at a hospital.

 

 

 

Past Bachelor's and Master's students

Past Bachelor's and Master's students
YearDegreeNameComments
2012MSc Biology (U. Zurich)Roman KellenbergerRoman went on to do a PhD in Zurich
2019BSc BiologyAylin BerschAylin stayed with us as a Master's student
2019BSc Agricultural BiologyJustus Müller-Kiefer
2020BSc Agricultural BiologyLeonie Schmierer
2020BSc Agricultural BiologyTheresa Linhard
2020BSc BiologyFlorian Kaltenecker

In collaboration with the Hohenheim Gardens.

Florian went on to do a Master's

2021BSc BiologyNathalie HundCollaboration with the Hohenheim Gardens
2022BSc BiologyLara Gaidusch
2022BSc Agricultural BiologyHannah OertelHannah went on to do a Master's in the Netherlands
2022MSc BiologyAylin BerschAylin has started a PhD project with us
2022MSc BiologyNoa SchwabeNoa has started a PhD project with us
2022MSc BiologyStephanie GödderzStephanie carried out her research project with Dr Nargar at the Australian Tropical Herbarium (ATH) in Cairns, Australia. Stephanie plans to do a PhD.
2022BSc BiologyLena TränkleLena did her BSc project at the Panguana research station in Peru. She went on to do an MSc in Landscape Ecology.
2022BA LaG  Bio (U. Stuttgart)Maike Kohnle
2022MSc BiologySimon Grzybowski
2023BSc BiologyCarina RathjeCarina went on to do a Master's in Landscape Ecology
2023BSc Agricultural BiologyHelena SchwabHelena went on to work in the public sector