Group Members
Carola Kappauf
Office administration
office: room 2075
phone: +4989-289-12469
Max Binkle
MSc student
office: room 2059
phone: +4989-289-14624
Kaiwen Chen
MSc student
office: room 2061
phone: +4989-289-12466
Frederico Delgado
PhD student
office: room 2059
phone: +4989-289-14624
Dr. Manuel Grumet
Postdoctoral fellow
office: room 2081
phone: +4989-289-14667
Dr. Franziska Hegner
Postdoctoral fellow
office: room 2059
phone: +4989-289-14642
Jiaqi Hu
MSc student
office: room 2059
phone: +4989-289-14624
Namita Krishnan
MSc student
office: room 2073
phone: +4989-289-14623
Takeru Miyagawa
PhD student
office: room 2073
phone: +4989-289-14623
Jonas Oldenstaedt
PhD student
office: room 2069
phone: +4989-289-14624
Levon Satzger
MSc student
office: room 2059
phone: +4989-289-14624
Martin Schwade
PhD student
office: room 2061
phone: +4989-289-12466
Philip Schwinghammer
PhD student
office: room 2071
phone: +4989-289-12468
Frederik Vonhoff
PhD student
office: room 2071
phone: +4989-289-12468
Max Whitfield
MSc student
office: room 2069
phone: +4989-289-14624
Yufeng Xu
MSc student
office: room 2073
phone: +4989-289-14623
BSc students and interns
Mascha Kohnemann (intern, TUM-PH)
Jessica Link (intern, TUM-PH)
Ellen Williams (intern, University of Bath)
Group pictures
Group in December 2025
From right to left: Mascha Kohnemann, Frederik Vonhoff, Jessica Link, Jonas Oldenstaedt, Kaiwen Chen, Frederico Delgado, Max Whitfield, Levon Satzger, Jiaqi Hu, Max Binkle, Philip Schwinghammer, Martin Schwade, Takeru Miyagawa, Manuel Grumet, Ellen Williams, Carola Kappauf, Yufeng Xu, Waldemar Kaiser, David Egger
Group in September 2023
Standing from left to right: Manuel Grumet, Carola Kappauf, Xiangzhou Zhu, Elise Sirotti, Shaoming Zhang, Max Schilcher, Philip Schwinghammer, Frederik Vonhoff, Waldemar Kaiser, Martin Schwade, Stefan Seidl, Takeru Miyagawa, David Egger.
Sitting from left to right: Namita Krishnan, Frederico Simões, Franziska Hegner, Frederico Delgado, Sebastián Caicedo-Dávila.
Group in June 2022
From left to right: Clara von Scarpatetti, Sebastián Caicedo-Dávila, Elise Sirotti, Frederico Delgado, Stefan Seidl, Bernhard Kretz, Christian Gehrmann (just graduated!), Max Schilcher, Franziska Hegner, Manuel Grumet, Martin Schwade, Christian Reverón Baecker, Xiangzhou Zhu, David Egger.
Not in the picture: Carola Kappauf, Markus Amaseder, Franz Pöschl.
Group in August 2021
Sitting from left to right: Xiangzhou Zhu, Franziska Hegner, Elise Sirotti, Sebastián Caicedo-Dávila, Manuel Grumet.
Standing from left to right: David Egger, Martin Schwade, Christian Gehrmann, Frederico Delgado, Max Schilcher, Stefan Seidl, Karin Thalmann.
Not in the picture: Carola Kappauf, Bernhard Kretz, Shravan Godse, Jonas Oldenstädt, Britta Seegebrecht.
Group in December 2018
From left to right: David Egger, Lisi Wruß, Max Schilcher, Berni Kretz, Daniel Angerer, Robert Hrdina, Hubert Beck, Stefan Seidl, Christian Gehrmann
Group in June 2017
From left to right: Stefan Seidl, Keshav Srinivasan, David Egger, Christian Gehrmann
Our Alumni
Markus Amaseder: Markus was an M.Sc. student in the group in 2025. He will be continuing his Ph.D. at LMU.
Victor Chen: Victor was an M.Sc. student in the group in 2025.
Julian Saure: Julian was a B.Sc. student in the group in 2025.
Sebastian Riedl: Sebastian was a B.Sc. student in the group in 2025.
Hannah Beifuß: Hannah was a B.Sc. student in the group in 2025.
Luis Blank: Luis was a B.Sc. student and intern in the group in 2024 and 2025.
Xiangzhou Zhu: Xiangzhou was a Ph.D. student and post doc in the group until 2025. He will be continuing as a post doc with Matteo Calandra at U. Trento.
Elise Sirotti: Elise was a Ph.D. student in the group until 2025. She will continue her work at Zeiss Microscopy.
Stefan Seidl: Stefan was a Ph.D. student in the group until 2024.
Görkem Tamer: Görkem was an M.Sc. student in the group in 2023/24.
Kaiwen Chen: Kaiwen was a B.Sc. student in the group in 2024. He will be continuing his studies at TUM.
Sonja Buchner: Sonja was a B.Sc. student in the group in 2024. She will be continuing her studies at TUM.
Jara Stucken: Jara was a B.Sc. student in the group in 2024. She will be continuing her studies at TUM.
Chiara Spezzati: Chiara was an M.Sc. student in the group in 2024. She will be traveling the world.
Shaoming Zhang: Shaoming was an M.Sc. student in the group in 2023/24. He will be working at Merck.
Frederico Simões: Fred was an M.Sc. student in the group in 2023/24. He will be continuing his Ph.D. studies with Stephan Roche at ICN2.
Maximilian Schilcher: Max was a Ph.D. student in the group until 2023. He will be working at an energy supplier in Augsburg.
Dr. Sebastián Caicedo-Dávila: Sebastian was a post doc in the group until 2023. He will be working at a startup company in Munich.
Simon Hackl: Simon was a B.Sc. student in the group in 2023. He will be continuing his M.Sc. studies at TUM.
Konstantin Gattinger: Konstantin was a B.Sc. student in the group in 2023. He will be continuing his M.Sc. studies at TUM.
Christian Reverón Baecker: Christian was an M.Sc. student in the group in 2022/23.
Clara von Scarpatetti: Clara was a B.Sc. student in the group in 2022. She will be continuing her M.Sc. studies at TUM.
Dr. Bernhard Kretz: Berni was a post doc in the group until 2022. He is now working at BIOS in Graz.
Christian Gehrmann: Christian was a Ph.D. student in the group until 2022. He is now working at Bosch in Stuttgart.
Franz Pöschl: Franz was a B.Sc. student in the group in 2022 and intern in the group in 2023. He will be continuing his M.Sc. studies at TUM.
Markus Amaseder: Markus was a B.Sc. student in the group in 2022. He will be continuing his M.Sc. studies at TUM.
Shravan Godse: Shravan was a summer intern in the group in 2021. He will be continuing his Ph.D. studies at Carnegie Mellon University.
Karin Thalmann: Karin was an M.Sc. student in the group in 2021. She will be continuing her Ph.D. studies with Michael Thoss at U. Freiburg.
Stefan Böhm: Stefan was a B.Sc. student in the group in 2020. He will be continuing his M.Sc. studies at TUM.
Waldemar Schmunk: Waldemar was a B.Sc. student in the group in 2020. He will be continuing his M.Sc. studies at TUM.
Karina Houska: Karina was a B.Sc. student in the group in 2020. She will be continuing her M.Sc. studies at TUM.
Daniel Angerer: Daniel was an M.Sc. student in the group from 2018-2020. He is now working at TWT GmbH.
Hubert Beck: Hubert was an M.Sc. student in the group from 2018-2019. He will work as a volunteer in Cambodia.
Robert Hrdina: Robert was the Office Manager in the group from 2017-2019. He will be continuing his work in the administration at the University of Regensburg.
Dr. Elisabeth Wruß: Lisi was a Post Doc in the group in 2018 and 2019. She will be travelling the world.
Harikrishnan K.P: Hari was a visiting undergraduate student in the group in 2018 and 2019. He will be continuing his graduate studies at Cornell University.
Arun Sagotra: Arun was a visiting graduate student in the group in 2018. He will be continuing with his graduate studies at UNSW, Sydney.
Keshav Srinivasan: Keshav was a visiting undergraduate student in the group in 2017 and 2018. He will be continuing his graduate studies at the University of Maryland, College Park.
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