People
Ricard Alert
2022-present Max Planck Research Group Leader, Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems (MPI-PKS) and Center for Systems Biology Dresden (CSBD)
2018-2021 Human Frontier Science Program (HFSP) Postdoctoral Fellow, Princeton Center for Theoretical Science (PCTS) and Lewis-Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics (LSI), Princeton University
2013-2017 Ph.D. in Physics, La Caixa Fellow, University of Barcelona
2012-2013 Master's in Biophysics, University of Barcelona
2007-2012 Llicenciatura in Physics, University of Barcelona
MJ Franco-Oñate
2023/11-present Postdoc, Visitors program, MPI-PKS
2020-2023 Ph.D. in Physics, Laboratoire Charles Coulomb, Montpellier (France)
2019-2020 Master's in Physics and Engineering of Living Matter, University of Montpellier (France)
2015-2019 Bachelor in Physics, University of Murcia (Spain)
Saraswat Bhattacharyya
2025/01-present Postdoc, Visitors program, MPI-PKS
2020-2024 DPhil in Theoretical Physics, University of Oxford (UK)
2019-2020 Master's in Mathematical and Theoretical Physics, University of Oxford (UK)
2014-2017 Bachelor in Physics (Research), Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore (India)
Peter Hampshire
2022/09-present PhD student, MPI-PKS & CSBD
2018-2022 Bachelor and Master's in Physics, University of Cambridge (UK)
Hanno I. Hennighausen
2022/09-present PhD student, MPI-PKS & CSBD
2020-2022 Master's in Physics, Philipps-University & Max Planck Institute for Terrestrial Microbiology, Marburg (Germany)
2016-2019 Bachelor in Physics, Ruprecht-Karls-University, Heidelberg (Germany)
Ashot Matevosyan
2022/11-present PhD student, MPI-PKS
2018-2022 Bachelor and Master's in Physics, University of Cambridge (UK)
Lauritz Hahn
2024/10-present PhD student (jointly with Marín Bukov), MPI-PKS & CSBD
2021-2024 Master's in Physics, École Normale Supérieure Paris (France)
2017-2021 Bachelor in Physics, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich (Germany)
2017-2021 Bachelor in Philosophy, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich (Germany)
Steffen Grosser
2025/06-present Visiting postdoc, MPI-PKS
2023-present MSCA fellow and La Caixa Junior Leader, Institute for Bioengineering of Catalonia, Barcelona (Spain)
2021-2022 Postdoc, Leipzig University (Germany)
2015-2020 Ph.D. in Physics, Leipzig University (Germany)
2002-2011 Diploma in Physics, Leipzig University (Germany) and Université Joseph Fourier, Grenoble (France)
Former Members
Malcolm Hillebrand. Postdoc (2023/01 - 2024/12)
Till Welker. Intern and Master's student (2023/07 - 2024/09)
Suchismita Das. Postdoc (2022/03 - 2024/09)
Irina Pi Jaumà. Visiting PhD student (2024/03 - 2024/06)
Joseph Hutchinson. ELBE postdoctoral fellow (2022/02 - 2024/02)
Ekaterina Maximova. Master's student (2022/06 - 2022/12)
Current positions
Assistant professor at the University of Cape Town (South Africa)
PhD student at University of Edinburgh (UK)
Postdoc at École Normale Supérieure Paris (France)
PhD student at University of Barcelona (Spain)
Cambridge Design Partnership (UK)