Julie Bianchi, Ph.D. Research coordinator @ Karolinska Institutet (2022 -2023) and @ Uppsala University (2023)
Currently: External Relation Officer @ Scilifelab, working within Precision Medicine Capability
Administration
Anurupa Nagchowdhury Research assistant @ Karolinska Institute in Petzold lab (2018-2021)
Currently: Research assistant @ Karolinska Institute
Visiting researchers
Snorri Þór Sigurðsson, Professor
Professor @ University of Iceland, Faculty of Physical Sciences, Iceland
Snorri joined the Petzold lab as a guest researcher during the spring of 2024
Giancarlo Abis, Researcher
Research Associate @ King’s College London, Randall Centre for Cell & Molecular Biophysics, UK
Giancarlo joined the Petzold lab as a guest researcher in May 2024
Christina Thiele, Professor
Professor for organic structure elucidation @ Technical University Darmstadt, Germany
Christina joined the Petzold lab as a guest researcher during the summer of 2019
Postdocs
David Kosek, Ph.D
B.Sc. in Biology @ Uppsala University, Sweden (2012)
MSc. in Biology @ Uppsala University, Sweden (2014)
PhD in Medical Science @ Karolinska Institute, Sweden (2024)
Postdoc fellow @ Uppsala Universitet (2024)
Walter Becker, Postdoc fellow @ Karolinska Institutet (2020-2023)
Future: Postdoctoral Fellow in The University of Sydney
Julian Ilgen, Postdoc fellow @ Karolinska Institutet (2021-2023)
Reiner Eidelpes Postdoc fellow @ Karolinska Institute (2021-2022)
Currently: MSL at Daiichi-Sankyo Austria GmbH
Elnaz Banijamali, Ph.D Postdoctoral Fellow at Karolinska Institutet (2019-2022)
Currently: Postdoctoral Fellow in the Imig lab at Max Planck Institute in Dortmund
Natalia Galindo Riera Postdoctoral Fellow at Karolinska Institutet (2020-2022)
Currently: Postdoctoral Fellow at University de Valencia
Judith Schlagnitweit Postdoctoral Fellow at Karolinska Institutet (2016-2018) Staff Scientist at Karolinska Institutet (2018 – 2021)
Currently: Group leader at CRMN Lyon
Sarah Friebe Sandoz Postdoctoral Fellow at Karolinska Institutet (2017-2020)
Currently: Senior Research Scientist at Pelago Bioscience AB
Maja Marušič Postdoctoral Researcher @ Karolinska Institute (2017 – 2019)
Currently: Staff scientist at the Slovenian NMR center
Ileana Guzzetti Postdoctoral Fellow at Karolinska Institutet (2015 – 2019)
Currently: AstraZeneca Gothenburg
Emilie Steiner Postdoctoral Fellow at Karolinska Institutet (2015 – 2017)
Currently: Assistant Professorship at Evry University, France
Carolina Fontana Postdoctoral Fellow at Karolinska Institutet (2014 – 2015)
Currently: Assistant Professor at the Department of Chemistry, University of the Republic, Uruguay
PhD Students
Ting Huang, M.Sc.
B.Sc. Pharmacy @ Xiamen University, China (2011-2015)
M.Sc. Natural products chemistry @ Fudan University, China (2016-2019)
PhD student @ Karolinska Institutet (2019-2024)
Lara Sweetapple, PhD student @ Karolinska Instituet (2019-2024)
M.Sc. B.Sc. Biochemistry @ University of Canterbury, New Zealand (2014)
M.Sc. Molecular Biosciences @ University of Heidelberg, Germany (2017)
PhD student @ Karolinska Institutet (2019-2024), email: lara.sweetapple@ki.se
Hannes Feyre PhD student @ Karolinska Institutet (2016 – 2022)
Hampus Karlsson PhD student @ Karolinska Institutet (2015 – 2021)
Currently: Postdoc at the Chalmers University of Technology
Luca Retattino, M.Sc.
PhD Student @ Karolinska Institute (2015 -2020)
Lorenzo Baronti PhD Student @ Karolinska Institutet (2015 – 2020)
Currently: Postdoc at the Helmholtz Zentrum München
Students
Zineb Robio, B.Sc.
B.Sc. in Chemistry @ Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main Germany (2020-2024)
M.Sc. in Chemistry @ Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main Germany (2024-2026)
Eleni Kapidou, M.Sc.
B.Sc. in Chemistry @ Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece (2016-2021)
M.Sc. in Chemical Biology @ Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden (2022-2024)
Uno Bolin Hartl, B.Sc.
B.Sc. student in Molecular Biology @ Stockholm University (2022-2025)
Marco Halbeisen, Bc./B.Sc.
Bc./B.Sc. Biological Chemistry @ University of South Bohemoa/Johannes Kepler University (2019-2022)
Master student in Chemical Biology @ Uppsala Universitet (2022-)
Marco joined the Petzold Lab for his Master Thesis (2024)
Ellinor Lindén, M. Sc.
Received her M.Sc. degree in Biotechnology from KTH, Royal Institute of Technology, 2023
Nicola Bopp B. Sc. Biochemistry @ University of Regensburg, Germany (2016-2020)
M. Sc. Biochemistry @ University of Regensburg, Germany (Since 2020)
Nicola joined the Petzold lab for a project for her Master (2023) and worked with Joanna on SHAPE methodologies
Currently: Master student @ University of Regensburg, Germany
Cenk Onur Gürdap B.Sc. Biological Sciences @ Middle East Technical University, Turkey (2020)
Cenk joined the Petzold lab to work on new methods to produce isotope-labeled RNA
Currently: Master student in Molecular Techniques in Life Sciences @ Karolinska Institute, KTH Royal Institute of Technology and Stockholm University (2020-)
Marvin Albers B.Sc. Chemistry @ TU Darmstadt, Germany (2016-2020) Master student in Chemistry @ WWU Muenster (2020-)
Marvin joined the Petzold lab for a project for his masters (2021)
Currently: Master thesis @ WWU Muenster, Germany
Juliane Müller B.Sc. Biomolecular Engineering @ TU Darmstadt, Germany (2016-2019)
Master student in Biomolecular Engineering @ TU Darmstadt (2019-2021)
Juliane joined the Petzold lab for a project for her master’s degree (2020-2021)
Currently: Internship at Merck, Darmstadt, Germany
Wei-Tse Chang Wei-Tse joined the Petzold lab for a research internship (2021)
Currently: Bachelor of Science student in Biomedicine @ Karolinska Institute (2020-)
Sabrina Töws B.Sc. Biochemistry @ Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany (2019)
Master student in Molecular Medicine @ Goethe University Frankfurt (2019-)
Raluca Munteanu Raluca worked in the RNA wetlab on new production methods during 2018, as a KI Biomedical programme bachelor student.
Linda Käll Linda wrote her Bachelor thesis in the Petzold lab as a KI Biomedical programme student during spring 2018.
Mateu Montserrat Mateu joined the Petzold lab as a third year bachelor student in February 2018 to write his Bachelor thesis.
Andrea Coulthard
Andrea joined the Petzold lab for a project during the summer of 2017 as a second year biomedical student at KI.
Noah Hopkins Noah joined the Petzold lab for a project during the Summer of 2016, and returned for a second project during Summer 2018.
Luís Silva Master student from Universidade Nova de Lisboa (2016-2018) Currently: Data scientist at “Celfocus”, Lisbon
Karen Schriever Exchange student from University of Heidelberg (2016) Currently: PhD at KTH university
Oana Florean Recieved her M.Sc. degree in Neuro-Chemistry from KTH, Royal Institute of Technology, June 2015.
Mona Farshchian
Received her M.Sc. degree in Chemistry & Education from KTH, Royal Institute of Technology & SU, Stockholm University, June 2015