Congratulations to our graduates!

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    Daniel Timmer

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    Katrin Haase

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    Gesa Grüning

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  • Anders Frederiksen

    Anders Frederiksen

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    Alina Steinemer

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    Katharina Görtemaker

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    Corinna Langebrake

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    Siu Ying Wong

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    Thiemo Karwinkel

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Thank you all for your great work and all the best for your future steps!

Congratulations to our finished doctoral researchers from the first funding period!


2026

  • Domna Zourelidou (Sig02) "Molecular basis of somatosensory receptors of the trigeminal system in fish in relation to the magnetic sense"

2025

  • Christoph Block (Neu02) „Functional diversity of retinal ganglion cells“
  • Chunxu Yuan (Neu01) "Assessing the permeability of retinal gap junctions and retinal pigment epithelium in mice using cut-loading and transepithelial resistance measurements"

2024

  • Anitta Rose Thomas (Sig01) "Ultrafast spectroscopy of charge separation processes in natural light harvesting complexes"
  • Alina Steinemer  (Neu04) "Multisensory integration of navigational information in the avian telencephalon"
  • Anders Frederiksen  (Sig05) "Structural and mutational traits of avian cryptochromes"
  • Bo Leberecht (Nav01) "The avian magnetic compass sense - From across-globe migration to the quantum magnetosensor"
  • Chad Yee  (Sig04) "Cryptochromes as sensory receptors in biological magnetoreception"
  • Daniel Timmer  (Sig01) "Probing coherent coupling dynamics in quantum systems using ultrafast two-dimensional electronic spectrscopy"
  • Gesa Grüning  (Sig05) "The impact of Spin Relaxation on Magnetic Field Effects in Biological Systems"
  • Katharina Görtemaker  (Sig04) "Cryptochromes as molecular triggers in magnetoreceptive cell responses"
  • Katrin Haase  (Neu03) “The avian magnetic senses – sensors, neuronal pathways and multisensory integration“
  • Malien Laurien (Z02) "Sensory Basis of Orientation Behaviour in Fish"

2023

  • Corinna Langebrake  (Z02) "Macro- and microevolution of bird migration"
  • Fabian Schuhmann (Sig05) "Development of theoretical and computational methods for biophysical applications"
  • Laura Ziegenbalg (Sig02) "Molecular basis of somatosensory receptors of the trigeminal system in fish in relation to the magnetic sense"
  • Maja Hanic (Sig05) "Structure and photoactivation of avian cryptochromes"
  • Pranav Seth (Nav01) "Cryptochromes in the avian retina and the knock-down of cryptochrome 4 to study magnetoreception"
  • Siu Ying (Alice) Wong  (Sig01) "Spin dynamics simulations of radical-pair-based magnetoreceptors"
  • Thiemo Karwinkel  (Nav02) "A magnet on wings? Assessing magnetoreception and orientation/navigation-hypotheses in free-flying birds"