Prof Dr Inge K. Herrmann
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Lisa Cartelli
Lab Manager & Admin
Dr Alexander Gogos
Analytical chemist and electron microscopy expert.
2015 PhD ETH Zurich (Prof. Zenobi)
2010 MSc RWTH Aachen
Dr Alexandre H.C. Anthis
Senior Project Manager and founder of Veltist.
2021 PhD, ETH Zurich, Prof. Herrmann
2018 MSc Chemistry, University of Geneva
2016 BSc Chemistry, University of Geneva
Winner of Lopez Loreta, Forbes 30 under 30, Erni Medal, ETH MaP Award 2022, ETH Pioneer Fellow and many other awards.
Dr Lukas Gerken
since 2022 - Dietschweiler Fellow.
2022 PhD at D-MAVT, ETHZ, Prof. Herrmann
2018 MSc Biomedical Eng. TU Vienna/ETHZ
2015 BSc in Physics and Sports University of Cologne
Expert in Nanoparticle-Radioenhancement. Winner of ETH MaP Award 2023 and ETH Silver Medal, and several other awards.
Dr Robert Nißler
Postdoc, ETH Career Seed Grant Awardee, Analytical Chemist.
2021 PhD (summa cum laude), Göttingen, Prof. Kruss
2016 MSc Chemical Biology, Jena.
Winner of ETH Career Grant.
Dr Oscar Cipolato
Currently Entrepreneur Fellow (isoldering).
2024 PhD at ETH D-MAVT in Laser Tissue Soldering (iSoldering) with Prof. Herrmann.
2020 MSc in physics, University of Padova and Imperial College London (Prof. Sapienza)
Winner of Nature Award "Science in Shorts", the Google Cloud Hackaton, the Zollikofer Award 2024, the Geistlich Award for Regenerative Medicine 2023, and multiple best presentation awards. Featured in The Economist.
Dr Thomas Rduch, MD
Medical doctor, OB/GYN, senior physician at KSSG.
Clinical research fellow in our lab since 01/2020.
Dr Andrea Quiroga, MD
Monika Zimmermann
ETH D-MAVT Doctoral Student, ETH Physicist and radiotherapy expert
Erik Mayr
ETH D-MAVT Doctoral student, physicist, magnetism expert.
Ben Suter
ETHZ D-MAVT Doctoral student, physicist, ultrasound and ML expert.
Alexander Jessernig
ETH D-MAVT Doctoral Student and Chemist, expert in point-of-care diagnostics, co-inventor of SensAL.
Winner of 2024 Falling Walls Switzerland (1st place), 2024 Empa Innovation Award, and ETH Spark Award (Top5).
Lucas Dosnon
ETH D-MAVT Doctoral Student and Physicist, expert in non-invasive diagnostics (MenstruAI).
2021 MSc in Physics, ETH Zurich
2020 MSc in Engineering and Innovation, University College London.
2019 BSc in Physics (major) and Mathematics (minor), Sorbonne University.
Sebastian Habermann
ETH D-MAVT Doctoral Student and Chemist, expert in nanoparticle synthesis and functionalization, and correlative microscopy.
Charlotte Meyer
ETHZ D-MAVT Doctoral student, biomedical engineer, biomaterials and microfluidics expert.
Nisa Balta
ETHZ D-MAVT Doctoral student, electrical engineer
Matthias Fernandez
Doctoral student (joint with Prof. Lukatskaya's lab)
Dr Vera M Kissling
TEM specialist based at Empa working part-time for our lab.
Current Students
- Lianxin Xu (TU Munich, ETH Mobility student, MSc thesis, 04/23-present).
- Giovanni Audibert (ETHZ (MAVT), MSc thesis, 04/23-present).
- Andre Renia (Northwestern University, MSc thesis, 07/23-present).
- Harun Chaudhry (ETHZ (HEST), MSc thesis, 09/23-present).
- Sahana Rutz (ETHZ (HEST), MSc thesis, 09/23-present).
- Jonathan Hamid (ETHZ (MAVT), MSc thesis, 09/23-present).
- Noel Speck (ETHZ (MAVT), MSc internship, 09/23-present)
- Silas Riss (ETHZ (MAVT), MSc internship, 09/23-present)
- Isabel Gmür (ETHZ (CHAB), MSc internship, 09/23-present)
- Deven Shah (ETHZ (MATL), MSc internship, 09/23-present)
- Kamil Güzelgün (ETHZ (MAVT), MSc internship, 09/23-present)
- Isabel Klessascheck (ETHZ (MAVT), BSc thesis + HiWi, 2023).
- Marcus Bammel (ETHZ (MAVT), BSc thesis, 2023).
- Michael Schmotzer (ETHZ (MAVT), BSc thesis, 2023).
- Tsering Chokchampa (ETHZ (MAVT), BSc thesis, 2023).
- Noel Strasser (ETHZ (MAVT), BSc thesis, 2023).
Alumni (Doctoral Students & Postdocs)
Dr Tino Matter
2021-2024 ETH Pioneer and Bridge Fellow, founder of anavo medical.
2020 PhD at D-MAVT, ETHZ, Prof. Herrmann
2016 MSc Nanoscience (summa cum laude), University of Basel (MSc thesis at Empa with Prof. Herrmann)
Winner of the ETH Silver Medal, ETH MaP Award 2021, MIT 35 under 35, and many other awards.
Now Project Manager.
Dr Paige LeValley
2022-2024 Postdoc and polymer expert in our lab.
2020 PhD University of Delaware, Prof. Kloxin
2015 MSc Chemical Engineering, University of Wyoming.
Multi-award-winning student mentor and supervisor.
Dr Subas Scheibler
2023-2024 Empa Entrepreneur Fellow with Prof. Hug and Prof. Herrmann.
2023 PhD at D-MAVT, ETHZ with Prof. Herrmann
2019 MSc Physics, University of Zurich.
Winner of the Sintetica Award 2022 (2nd prize), the Entrepreneur Fellowship and the best presentation award 2023.
now Project Manager CTS.
Dr Anna L. Neuer
Former ETH D-MAVT doctoral student (2019-2023) with Prof. Herrmann
- 5 first author publications, 8+ co-authorships, 3 best presentation awards
now R&D director microbiology at SterilAir.
Dr Elena Tsolaki
2020-2023 PHRT-Postdoc in our lab, published seminal paper on bioprosthetic heart valve calcification with Prof. T. Carrel and ARTORG!
2018-2020 Former visting doctoral student (UCL)
2018 MSc Medical Physics, UCL
now Head of Publishing at Krager
Dr Fabian Starsich
Former ETH D-MAVT doctoral student with Prof. Pratsinis, Project Manager at Haelixa (2019-2020), Postdoc (2020-2022) with Prof. Herrmann
- SNF International Visitor Fellowship to TU Hamburg & ETH Career Seed Award.
now Project Manager at Gericke.
Dr Alice Balfourier
Innosuisse postdoc (2020-2021) with Prof. Herrmann
- lead research on biotransformation
now Assistant Professor at Ecole Normale Superieure Paris
Dr Kerda Keevend
Former ETH D-MAVT doctoral student (2016-2019) and SNF-Spark postdoc (2019-2021) with Prof. Herrmann
- 5 first author publications, 15+ co-authorships, ENSF Presidential Award, 3 best presentation awards
now Scientist at Cytosurge
Dr Jian-Hao Li
Former Novartis FreeNovation postdoc with Prof. Herrmann (2018-2020), working on ML spectral pathology for early cancer detection.
now data scientist at Taiwan National Labs
Student Alumni
We supervised more than 100+ BSc, semester and MSc thesis. Several of our students won best thesis awards!
Group Activities
2023 - Pilsen Summer School
Meeting with junior surgeons
2023 - Surgical Retreat
with the Clavien Lab and friends.
2023 - Project Celebration.
with our friends from D-PHYS.
2023 - Joining the Complex Spine Symposium
at Balgrist University Hospital.
2023 - Javorna Retreat
Joining the Liska Retreat in Javorna, CZ.
2021 Shopping at the Slaugtherhouse
Abdominal cavity package from the slaugtherhouse in Batzenheid.
2021 Field Trip to Pilsen
Visting our collaborators at Charles University with Alex, AlexJ, Ben, Augustin, Anna and Inge.
2020 Skiing in Montafon
Skiing and physics trip to Montafon with Kerda, Tino, Alex, Lukas, Subas, Anna,Thomas, Erik, and special guest Prof. Hans Hug - teaching us magnetism in the hotel lobby!
2019 AIChE in Orlando / Miami
Group Trip to the AIChE in Orlando, with a stopover in Miami.
2018 Skiing in Samnaun
Skiing with the lab in Samnaun - Kerda, Tino, Alex, Lukas, Marco, Dimitri, Egle, and Inge.