Laboratory of Biological Network Characterization (LBNC)

Dr. Julia Tischler
Marie Heim-Vögtlin (SNF) Post-doctoral Fellow
PhD: Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, University of Cambridge
LBNC Member: December 2017 - September 2022

Dr. Gregoire Michielin
M.S., Ph.D. EPFL
LBNC Member: November 2016 - September 2022

Dr. Evan Olson
PhD: Department of Bioengineering, Rice University
LBNC Member: October 2017 - September 2021

Dr. Nadanai Laohakunakorn
PhD: Trinity College, University of Cambridge
LBNC Member: October 2015 - May 2019
Position after LBNC: Faculty - U. Edinburgh

Dr. Francesco Piraino
Post-doctoral researcher: Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT
PhD: Politecnico di Milan
LBNC Member: 2013 - 2017
Position after LBNC: Field Application Specialist - Quanterix

Dr. Jose Garcia-Cordero
Ph.D., Physics, Biomedical Diagnostics Institute, DCU
LBNC Member: May 2010 - September 2013
Position after LBNC: Assistant Professor, CINVESTAV-Monterrey, Lab Page

Dr. Luis Miguel Fidalgo
Ph.D., Multiphase Microfluidics, University of Cambridge
LBNC Member: March 2009 - July 2012
Position after LBNC: Project Manager at CEA - Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives

Dr. Marcel Geertz
Ph.D., Biochemistry, Jacobs University Bremen
LBNC Member: December 2008 - April 2012
Position after LBNC: Senior Associate Scientist, Philip Morris International

Laura Grasemann
M.S., TU Munich
LBNC Member: May 2019 - June 2024

Shiyu Cheng
B.S., Tianjin University
LBNC Member: October 2018 - January 2024
Position after LBNC: Co-Founder and CEO Roumai Medical

Ming Yip
M.S., Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
LBNC Member: September 2017 - December 2022

Amir Shahein
M.S., McGill University
LBNC Member: May 2019 - November 2022
Position after LBNC: Co-founder, Adaptyv Biosystems

Barbora Lavickova
M.S., KU Leuven
LBNC Member: September 2016 - December 2021
Position after LBNC: Post-doc, Roche Institute for Translational Bioengineering

Fabien Jammes
M.S., EPFL
LBNC Member: March 2017 - November 2021
Position after LBNC: Cytiva Lifesciences

Moustafa Houmani
M.S., EPFL
LBNC Member: September 2020 - June 2021
Position after LBNC: Start-up Company

Zoe Swank
M.Sc., University Basel
B.S., UC Santa Barbara
LBNC Member: March 2015 - December 2020
Position after LBNC: Post-doc, Harvard University, USA

Chun-Jie (Josh) Cai
M.S., National Taiwan University
LBNC Member: September 2018 - 2020

Ivan Istomin
B.S., Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology
LBNC Member: September 2015 - September 2020

Ekaterina Petrova
M.Sc., Biomedicine, Karolinska Institute
LBNC Member: April 2013 - December 2018
Position after LBNC: Post-doc, Karolinska Institute, Sweden

Michael Crone
M.S., Imperial College London
LBNC Member: September 2017 - August 2018
Position after LBNC: Graduate Student, Imperial College London

Francesca Volpetti
B.Sc., M.Sc., Università degli studi di Roma "Sapienza"
LBNC Member: September 2012 - December 2017
Position after LBNC: DQA Specialist at Roche Diagnostics International

Kristina Woodruff
B.Sc., M.Sc., Biochemistry, UCLA
LBNC Member: August 2012 - October 2017
Position after LBNC: Scientist (Upstream Bioprocess Development) at Sanofi-Genzyme

Matthew Blackburn
M.Sc., Chemical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
LBNC Member: September 2010 - February 2016
Position after LBNC: Consultant

Henrike Niederholtmeyer
M.Sc., Biotechnology, Westfälische Wilhelms‐Universität Münster
LBNC Member: April 2010 - August 2015
Position after LBNC: Post-Doc, UCSD

Jean-Bernard Nobs
M.Sc., Life Sciences & Technology, EPFL
LBNC Member: April 2009 - April 2014
Position after LBNC:

Arun Rajkumar
M.S., Biophysics, Anna University
LBNC Member: November 2008 - October 2013
Position after LBNC: Post-Doc Technical University of Denmark, Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Biosustainability

Sylvie Rockel
Diploma Bioprocess Engineering, Technical University Dresden
LBNC Member: August 2008 January 2013
Position after LBNC: Project Manager, IUCN

Nicolas Denervaud
M.Sc., Life Sciences & Technology, Specialization in BioInformatics, EPFL
LBNC Member: August 2008 - November 2012
Position after LBNC: Junior Consultant, The Boston Consulting Group

Tatjana Petrov
M.Sc., Computer Science, University of Novi Sad
LBNC Member: October 2009 - April 2011
Position after LBNC: PhD Student ETHZ

Simone Giaveri
B.Sc., M.Sc., Materials Engineering and Nanotechnology, Politecnico di Milano
LBNC Member: June 2016 - September 2021
Stellacci Lab, EPFL
Position after LBNC: Post-doc, Erb Group, MPI for Terrestrial Microbiology

Amanda Verpoorte
M.Sc., EPFL
LBNC Member: 2012 - 2017
McKinney Lab, EPFL

Zuzana Tatarova
BSc/MSc Molecular Biology and Biochemistry, Charles University in Prague
LBNC Member: 2012 - 2016
Huelsken Lab, EPFL

Johannes Becker
Diploma, Applied Mathematics, Technische Universität Darmstadt
LBNC Member: 2012 - 2015
Naef Lab, EPFL

Meltem Elitas
M.Sc., Electronics Engineering and Computer Science (Mechatronics), Sabanci University
LBNC Member: 2008 - 2012
McKinney Lab, EPFL
Position after LBNC: Post-doc, Rong Fan Group, Yale University

Bin He
M.Sc., Ecology and Evolution, University of Chicago
LBNC Member: 2008 - 2012
Kreitman Lab, University of Chicago
Position after LBNC: Post-Doc O'Shea Lab, Harvard University

Lisa Dratva
B.S. Life Sciences, EPFL
Master Thesis (Church Lab, Harvard)
LBNC Member Spring 2021

Vincent Bernaert
B.S. Life Sciences, EPFL
Master Thesis (Hersen Lab, Institute Curie Paris)
LBNC Member Spring 2021

Ferdinand Ativon
ESCPI - engineering school / Mines Paris-tech, Paris, France
LBNC Member: February - June 2021
Master Thesis

Thomas Simonet
B.S. School of Life Science, EPFL
External Masters in the lab of Richter-Dahlfors at Karolinska Institute
LBNC Member since February 2015

Craig Watson
B.S. School of Life Science, EPFL
LBNC Member: February - July 2015

Adele Drame-Maigne
B.S. School of Life Science, EPFL
External Masters in the lab of Teruo Fuji, LIMMS/ IIS University of Tokyo
Supervised by Yannick Rondelez

David Moi
B.S. School of Life Science, EPFL
LBNC Member: February - June 2014

Valoise Mendoh
LBNC Member: 2010 - 2011

Lara Laamari
EPFL, MT
LBNC Member Spring 2022

Alaa Ahmed
M.S. Life Science and Engineering
EPFL
Lab Immersion
LBNC Member: July - September 2019

Julie Laurent
B.S. School of Life Science, EPFL
LBNC Member: September 2018 - December 2018

Lea de Maddalena
B.S. School of Life Science, EPFL
LBNC Member: February 2014 - December 2015

Praneeth Karempudi
B.Tech. Chemical Engineering, IIT Madras
LBNC Member: February 2014 - December 2015

Kilian Cochet
B.S. School of Life Science, EPFL
LBNC Member: September 2015 - January 2016

Pernille Rainer
B.S. School of Life Science, EPFL
LBNC Member: September 2015 - January 2016

Thibaud Szymczak
B.S. School of Life Science, EPFL
LBNC Member: September 2015 - January 2016

Alexander Belushkin
B.S. Lomonosov Moscow State University, Faculty of Bioengineering and Bioinformatics
Master Program in Bioengineering, Track: Systems Biology, EPFL
LBNC Member: February to July 2014

Christophe Nell
B.S. School of Life Science, EPFL
LBNC Member: February to July 2014

Sylvain Bernard
B.S. School of Life Science, EPFL
LBNC Member: February to July 2013

Simon Lietar
EPFL, SV
Bachelor Project Student
LBNC Member Spring 2021

Justine Stoll
B.S. Life Science and Engineering
EPFL
Intern / Bachelor Project
LBNC Member: July - September 2019

Valere Meizoz
EPFL - Life Science
Bachelor Project Student
LBNC Member: August - September 2018

Leo Sumi
Life Sciences and Technology
Bachelor Project
Spring 2018

Golzar Mesbah
School of Life Science, EPFL
LBNC Member since July 2015

Julien Delisle
School of Life Science, EPFL
LBNC Member: February to July 2014

Stefano Tartini
School of Life Science, EPFL
LBNC Member: February to July 2014

David Christe
School of Life Science, EPFL
LBNC Member: February to July 2014

Astrid Kibleur
School of Life Science, EPFL
LBNC Member: 2011

Viktoria Stepanova
School of Life Science, EPFL
LBNC Member: 2009-2010
Position after LBNC: McKinsey & Company

Alefiya Dohadwala
B.S. Life Sciences
National University of Singapore
SRP Intern
LBNC Member: July - August 2023

Maria Andrea
B.S. Bioengineering
Universidad de Ingeniería y Tecnología, Lima, Peru
SRP Intern
LBNC Member: July - August 2022

Amina Mezghani
EPFL, SV
Intern
LBNC Member June - August 2021

Paula Thiel
B.Sc., Engineering in Biotechnology, Instituto Tecnologico de Costa Rica
B.Sc., Physics, Universidad de Costa Rica
LBNC Member: July - August 2021
SRP Summer Intern

Martha Carolina Elizondo Cantú
B.S. Biotechnology Engineering
Tecnológico de Monterrey, Campus Monterrey
SRP Intern
LBNC Member: July - August 2019

Mehdi Hicham
M.S. Life Science Engineering
EPFL
Intern
LBNC Member: April - September 2019

Asterios Arampatzis
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
SRP Intern
LBNC Member: July - August 2018

Rohan Thakur
B.S. Bioengineering, UC Berkeley
Whitaker International Fellow
LBNC Member: August 2017 - July 2018

Ahmed Saadawi
B.S. Zoology and Chemistry, Fayoum University
LBNC Member: May 2017 - August 2017

Felix Faltings
EPFL
LBNC Member: September 2016

Stefan Bassler
University of Heidelberg
LBNC Member: September 2016 - November 2016

Caroline Werlang
B.S. Chemical Engineering, Caltech
Fulbright Fellow
LBNC Member: September 2015 - 2016

Malek Kabani
Pre-first year EPFL Undergraduate
Intern
LBNC Member: June - July 2016

Eugenia Pankevich
Lomonosov Moscow State University
SRP Intern
LBNC Member: July - September 2016

Philippe Lenzen
School of Life Science, EPFL
LBNC Member: February 2016 - June 2016

Anna Olerinyova
Oxford University
SRP Intern
LBNC Member: July-August 2015

Emma Hemus
Junior in Chemical Engineering, McGill University
ThinkSwiss Research Scholarship
LBNC Member from May - July 2015

Charlotte ter Haar
B.S. Biomedical Engineering, Northwestern University
Whitaker International Fellow
LBNC Member: September 2014 - June 2015

Holly Rees
B.S. Natural Sciences (Chemistry)
University of Cambridge
SRP Intern 2014

Mathieu Quinodoz
School of Life Science, EPFL
Summer Intern 2013

Dennis Zhou
Cornell University
SRP Intern 2013

Vincent Zimmern
EPFL
Intern 2012

Heidi Culver
Johns Hopkins University
SRP Intern 2011

Arja Ray
IIT Kharagpur
Summer Intern 2011

Kelli Xu
UC San Diego
SRP Intern 2011
Current: Grad Student at the Harvard-MIT Division of Health Science and Technology.

Bhaskar Ganesh-Chennuri
IIT Guwahati
Summer Intern 2010
Current: Masters Student Johns Hopkins University

Siddharth Gupta
IIT Guwahati
Summer Intern 2009
Current: Process Engineer, Lonza Bioscience

Dr. Claudia Vicente
Postodoctoral researcher
Toulouse Biotechnology Institute, Bio & Chemical Engineering
Université de Toulouse
LBNC Member: September - October 2022

Jian Ju
M.Sc., Food Science and Technology, Hubei University of Technology
LBNC Member: January - December 2021

Fatemeh Arefi
M.Sc., Nano and Micro Electronic Devices, University of Tehran
LBNC Member since January 2021

Tel: +41 (0)21 693 1468
E-Mail: fatemeh.arefi at epfl.ch
Office: BM 2136

Simon Lietar
EPFL, SV
LBNC Member since Spring 2021

Moustafa Houmani
M.Sc., Bioengineering, EPFL
Adaptyv Biosystems

Daniel Gutierrez
M.Sc., Bioengineering, EPFL
Adaptyv Biosystems

Julian Englert
M.Sc., Materials Science, EPFL
Adaptyv Biosystems