People

    Principal Investigator: Alireza Mashaghi

    Current co-workers

• Laurens Heling (PhD student; Research areas: Single molecule optical tweezers analysis, protein folding, Nuclear receptor)

• Vasily Akulov (PhD student; Research areas: Single molecule optical tweezers analysis, Topology, 3D Genome, Nuclear receptor) 

• Mehrad Babaei (PhD student; Research area: Single cell analysis, Reaction networks, Pharmacology)

• Jiale Chen (PhD student; Research areas: Circuit topology, 3D Genome, Machine learning) 

• Huaqi Tang (PhD student; Research area: Immunoengineering & Immunometabolomics, organ chips, virology)

• Tom Evers (Postdoc; Research area: Single cell analysis, force spectroscopy, immunoengineering, virology)

• Aida Naghilou (Postdoc; Research areas: Biomolecular Condensates; Single cell analysis; Bioengineering)

• Vahid Sheikh-Hasani (Senior Biophysicist; Research areas: Single molecule analysis, Single cell mechanics, Portein folding)

• Julian Ng (Senior Scientist; Research areas: Single-molecule analysis, Nuclear hormone receptors)

• Abolfazl Ramezanpour (Senior Research Associate; Research areas: Medical diagnostics, Reaction networks)

• Jonas Berx (Guest Postdoc; Research areas: Circuit topology, Biomolecular Condensates)

• Ioannis Diamantis (Associated senior researcher/geometric topologist; Lecturer at Maastricht University)

• Jolieke van der Veen (MSc student; Research area: nuclear receptors)

• Yasmine Daoudi (MSc student; Research area: topology, genome analysis; protein modeling)

• Hong Kim (MSc student; Research area: Network pharmacology) 

• Barbara Scalvini (Guest Scientist; Research area: Circuit topology, Complex systems)

• Bhavneet Singh Saini (Project student: Circuit topology) 

• Amir Abas Ravassipour (Project student: Circuit topology)

• Asina Gijasi (Master student: Immunology and Immunopharmacology) 

• Shabnam Fazliani (Project student: circuit topology; jointly supervised with Dr. Mojtaba Tefagh)

• Alireza Sāme'a (Project student: circuit topology) 

• Mahmood Kalemati (Research Associate: AI-enhanced circuit topology; jointly supervised with Dr. Somayyeh Koohi)

• BSc thesis students: Brechje van Dijk, Danielle Kok, Isabelle van Dijck, Jaap van den Hurk, Tim Paulusse, Nicole Voogt

• AI/Statistics support: Laura Zwep

• Lab Technicians: Dirk-jan van den Berg, Faisa Guled 

• Microscopist: Erik Bos (Leiden University Medical Centre)

• Secretarial support: Mingmin Gong

Alumni

     Past co-workers (MSc/PhD students, postdocs, and visiting scientists)

• Philipp Spycher (Master student; Current position: CEO and Co-founder Araris Biotech AG)

• Seetharamaiah Attili (Master student; Current position: Research Associate at ‎Kings College London)

• Peter Vach (Master student; Current position: Postdoc at Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces, Potsdam)

• Tayebeh Jadidi (External PhD stduent; Current position: Postdoc at Osnabrueck University)

• Roeland van der Wijk (Research Associate; Current position: System Engineer at LUMICKS)

• Sara Kališnik (External PhD student; Current position: Assistant Professor at Wesleyan University)

• Rosilene Cristina Rossetto Burgos (PhD student; Research area: Immunopharmacology, Reaction networks)

• Denise Thakoerdat (Master student; Research area: Droplet microfluidic platforms for metabolomics; Currently: CTA submission manager at Johnson & Johnson)

• Mert Calis (Master student; Research area: Organ-on-chips, Immunoengineering; Currently: Cell Therapy Specialist at Kite Pharma)

• Laura Groen (Current position: Business & Technology Consultant at Accenture)

• Paul Miggiels (PhD student; Research area: Microfluidics; Currently: Engineer at DEMCON advanced mechatronics)

• Mojtaba Tefagh (Project worker; Current position: PhD student at Stanford University)

• Youness Azimzade (Project worker; Current position: Postdoc at Oslo Centre for Biostatistics and Epidemiology)

• Narges Nikoofard (Research Associate; Current position: Assistant professor, University of Kashan)

• Anne van Reeuwijk (Master student; Research area: Organ-on-chips; Currently: Clinical Research Associate at Novo Nordisk)

• Elnaz Bani Jamali (External PhD student; Research area: Protein topology; Current position: Postdoc at Karolinska Institutet)

• Mahan Ghafari (Master student; Current position: PhD student at Oxford University)

• Noëlle Bakker (Master student; Research area: Force spectroscopy, Parkinson's disease; Currently: PhD student at Amsterdam UMC)

• Udit Choudhury (Postdoc; jointly with Tans group; Current position: Assistant professor, Indian Institute of Technology)

• Arash Tirnadaz (Postdoc; Current position: Assistant Professor at Bu-Ali Sina University)

• Abidemi Junaid (PhD stduent; Current position: Scientist at Wyss Institute, Harvard University)

• Jaie Woodard (Postdoc; Current position: Postdoc at the University of Michigan)

• Ahmed Ali (Postdoc; Current position: Assistant Professor at Leiden University)

• Wei Yang (PhD student; Research area: Ophthalmology; Metabolomics; Diagnostic biomarkers)

• Mahya Rahmani (External PhD student at TUMS; Research area: Biomaterials; Current position: Assistant Professor at SBMU)

• Sanjeevani Lamba (Master student; Research area: Force spectroscopy, Single cell analysis; Currently: Associate Scientist at SeraNovo)

• Lilia Bouzoraa (Master student; Research area: Organ-on-chips, Robotics; Currently:  Intern at InnoGenerics)

• Felix Boorsma (Master student; Research area: Molecular modelling, Molecular chaperones; Currently: Customer Engagement Manager at Vifor Pharma)

• Daphne Nesenberend (Master student; Research area: Pharmacophysics, Biomathematics; Currently: PhD student at Leiden University)   

• Olivier van Capelleveen (Master student; Research area: Topology)    

• Patrick Koldenhof (Master student; Research area: Single cell analysis; Current position: Business Data Analyst at Abbvie)   

• Daan van Bokkem (Master student; Research area: Single cell analysis; Current position: Pharmacovigilance Associate at Cognizant)   

• Yingxue Li (Master student; Research area: Single cell analysis; Current position: PhD stduent at University Medical Center Groningen)   

• Tessa Fuchs (Master student; Research area: Systems biology; Current position: Project manager at PanCare)  

• Navid Manafi (MD student; Research area: Organ chips; Ophthalmology; Current position: Postdoc at UCLA)

• Melika Haji Mohammadi (Project student; Research area: Organ chips; Current position: Student at ETH Zurich)

• Otto Schullian (Research Associate; Research area: Topology; Current position: Postdoc at Max Planck Institute)

• Eman Abdelazem (Research assistant: Single cell metabolomics; Currently: Research Coordinator for AstraZeneca) 

• Willem Venemans (Project student; Research area: Topology and AI)

• Yasmine Abouleila (Postdoc; Research areas: Single cell analysis; Current position: Scientist at HUB Organoids)

• Anatoly Golovnev (Postdoc; Research area: Molecular topology)

• Twan Hooijschuur (Master student; Research area: Molecular topology, Soft matter; Current position: PhD candidate at University of Amsterdam)

• Mohammadhosein Razbin (Postdoctoral Research Associate; Research area: Molecular topology, Soft matter mechanics; Current position: Assistant Professor at Amirkabir University of Technology)

• Nadine van de Brug (Master student; Research area: Nuclear hormone receptors; Current position: PhD student at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)

• Duane Moes (Master student and Research Associate; Research area: Topology, Protein folding, Biomolecular condensates)    

• Maziar Heidari (Research Associate; Research area: Molecular topology, Biomolecular condensates; Current position: Postdoc at Max Planck Institute)

• Sabina Kelly Falke (Master student; Research area: Protein folding dynamics, intrinsically disordered proteins) 

• Jorn Ticheler (Master student; Research area: Genome topology, infectious disease)

• Vahid Satarifard (Research Associate; Research area: Circuit topology; Genome topology; Current position: Postdoc at Yale University)

• Aina Martí Juan (Master student; Research area: Bioprinting and disease modeling; Intern at SparkOptimus)

• Morris van Vliet (Master student; Research area: Protein folding, Nuclear hormone receptor)

• Azra Husetić (Master student; Research area: Bioprinting and disease modeling; PhD student at Leiden University Medical Centre)

• Ehsan Aslam (Master student; Research area: Protein folding dynamics, Muscular dystrophy)

• Yosri Ayache (MSc student and Project worker: Bioinformatics and Protein topology) 

• Erik Meijer (Project student: Bioinformatics and Protein topology)

     Past BSc thesis students 

• 2023: Mila Bölger, Jing Chen, Muriel  Hammond, Esmé  van Dorp, Hong Kim, Robbert-Jan van der Louw, Metin Karaçoban, Maria de Cuba, Abderrahman Akoudad (external, at Columbia University)

• 2022: Wouter Bakker, Amber Dijkstra, Joris Bak, Marit van Arkel, Nerin Kyazimova, Morris van Vliet

• 2021: Amina Begtašević , Danique Biskop, Fiona Liu, Gabi Stralen, Ilham Bachire, Ingmar Volkholz, Martijn Keet, Milad Allahdad, Naomi Hinkert, Rafaela Makrigianni, Yasmine Daoudi, Ymke Brückner

• 2020: Sven Dijkhuis, Veerle in 't Veld, Thomas Braun, Suzanne Wildeman, Mey van de Kamer, Zosia van Eesteren, Silke Cornelissen, Mai Elkhalek, Da Hao Ding

• 2019: Femke Heddema, Julia Roks, Feline De Ruijter, Milan de Putter, Bastiaan de Bont, Sobia Laghari, Shareen Ahmed, Boudewijn van Nieuwenhuize

• 2018: Céline van de Braak, Marlies Oosthoek, Alissa Schurink 

• 2017: Talel Lakhal