Prof Dr Inge Herrmann
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 Anthis
ETH Pioneer Fellow, Postdoc, Entrepreneur, founder of Veltist - Forbes 30 under 30, Winner of Lopez Loreta, ETH MaP Award 2022 and many other awards.
2021 PhD, ETH Zurich, Prof. Herrmann
2018 MSc Chemistry, University of Geneva
Dr Lukas Gerken
Dietschweiler fellow at Empa. Expert in Nanoparticle-Radioenhancement. Winner of ETH MaP Award 2023 and ETH Silver Medal, and several other awards.
2022 PhD at D-MAVT, ETHZ, Prof. Herrmann
2018 MSc Biomedical Eng. TU Vienna/ETHZ
2015 BSc in Physics and Sports University of Cologne
Dr Paige LeValley
Postdoc and polymer expert. Multi-award-winning student mentor and supervisor.
2020 PhD University of Delaware, Prof. Kloxin
2015 MSc Chemical Engineering, University of Wyoming
Dr Tino Matter
ETH Pioneer and Bridge Fellow, founder of anavo medical. Winner of the ETH Silver Medal, ETH MaP Award 2021, MIT 35 under 35, and many other awards.
2020 PhD at D-MAVT, ETHZ, Prof. Herrmann
2016 MSc Nanoscience (summa cum laude), University of Basel (MSc thesis at Empa with Prof. Herrmann)
Dr Robert Nissler
Postdoc, ETH Career Seed Awardee, Analytical Chemist.
2021 PhD (summa cum laude), Göttingen, Prof. Kruss
2016 MSc Chemical Biology, Jena
Dr Thomas Rduch, MD
Medical doctor, OB/GYN, senior physician at KSSG and clinical research fellow in our lab since 01/2020.
Dr Subas Scheibler
Empa Entrepreneur Fellow with Prof. Hug and Prof. Herrmann.
2023 PhD D-MAVT, ETHZ with Prof. Herrmann
2019 MSc Physics, University of Zurich.
Oscar Cipolato
ETH D-MAVT Doctoral Student, physicist and expert in Laser Tissue Soldering.
Sebastian Habermann
ETH D-MAVT Doctoral Student and Chemist, expert in nanoparticle synthesis and functionalization, and correlative microscopy.
Alexander Jessernig
ETH D-MAVT Doctoral Student and Chemist, expert in point-of-care diagnostics
Monika Zimmermann
ETH D-MAVT Doctoral Student, ETH Physicist and radiotherapy expert
Erik Mayr
ETH D-MAVT Doctoral student, physicist, magnetism expert.
Charlotte Meyer
ETHZ D-MAVT Doctoral student, biomedical engineer, biomaterials and microfluidics expert.
Ben Suter
ETHZ D-MAVT Doctoral student, physicist, ultrasound and ML expert.
Dr Vera M Kissling
TEM specialist based at Empa working part-time for our lab.
Dr Andrea Quiroga, MD
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
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 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 Alice Balfourier
Innosuisse postdoc (2020-2021) with Prof. Herrmann
- lead research on biotransformation
now Assistant Professor at Ecole Normale Superieure Paris
Dr Elena Tsolaki
Former visting doctoral student (UCL)
PHRT-Postdoc (2020-2023), published seminal paper on bioprosthetic heart valve calcification with Prof. T. Carrel and ARTORG!
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 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.