Silvana Valtcheva, Ph.D.
Principal investigator
MPI Lise Meitner Excellence Program
DFG Emmy Noether Program
Postdoctoral fellowship, New York University School of Medicine (Froemke lab)
Ph.D. Neuroscience, Collège de France, Paris (Venance lab)
Mingyu Yang, Ph.D.
Postdoc
DFG Walter Benjamin Fellow
IFS Mentoring Alumna
Ph.D. Neuroscience, Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Tübingen, Germany
Advisors: Prof. Dr. Nikos Logothetis,
Dr. Oxana Eschenko
M.S. Neural & Behavioral Sciences, Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Tübingen, Germany
Advisors: Prof. Dr. Nikos Logothetis, Dr. Oxana Eschenko
B.S. Psychology, Nankai University, Tianjin, China
Sarah Dagher, Ph.D.
Postdoc
Ph.D. Neuroscience, University of Mainz, Faculty of Medicine, Mainz, Germany
Advisors: Dr. Shimpei Ishiyama, Prof. Heiko Luhmann
M.S. Research Neuroscience, Lebanese University, Beirut, Lebanon.
Advisors: Dr. Ronza Abdel Rassoul
B.S. Biology, Lebanese University, Beirut, Lebanon
Maren Decker
PhD student
M.S. Biological Sciences, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany
Masters thesis advisor: Dr. Silvana Valtcheva
B.S. Biology, Georg-August University, Göttingen, Germany
Advisors: Prof. Dr. Eckhard Heymann
Jefferson Alvarez
PhD student
M.S. Integrative Neuroscience, Otto-von-Guericke University, Magdeburg, Germany
Masters thesis advisors: Dr. Motoharu Yoshida and Prof. Dr. Magdalena Sauvage
B.E. Informatics Engineering, Universidad de La Sabana, Chia, Colombia
Kaya Baumert
PhD student
Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes Fellow
Friedrich-Naumann-Stiftung Alumna
M.S. Neuroscience, Ruprecht-Karls University, Heidelberg, Germany
Masters thesis advisor: Prof. Dr. Jan Siemens
Supported by: Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes
B.S. Biology, Ruprecht-Karls University, Heidelberg, Germany
Bachelors thesis advisor: Prof. Dr. Stephan Frings
Amelie Kühler
Bachelor student
(current) B.S. Neuroscience, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany
Vanessa Könen
Technical assistant
Biological-technical Assistant, Rheinische Akademie Köln, Cologne, Germany
Internship: Cologne Center for Genomics (field: Next Generation Sequencing), Cologne, Germany
ALUMNI
Master students - Thesis
Laure Nolfo
2024, M.S. Cellular and Integrative Neuroscience, University Of Côte d'Azur, Nice, France (EUR Life Fellowship)
current: PhD student @Fernandez lab , IMCP, Valbonne, France
Charlotte Burns
2024, M.S. Biological Sciences, University Of Cologne, Cologne, Germany