The Team
Romana Schirhagl
Professor, Head of the group
Nationality: Austrian
Background: Chemistry, Biology
Interests: Diamond magnetometry, metabolism, cell biology, analytical chemistry
Minle Zhan
PhD student
Nationality: Chinese
Background: Biomedical Engineering
Interests: NV center physics, optics
David Hernan Aquierre Padilla
PhD student
Nationality: Chilean
Background: Medicine
Interests: Brain stimulation, stress responses
Sanne Witziers
Master student
Nationality: Dutch
Background: Biomedical Sciences
Interests: Fertility
Felipe P. Perona Martinez
Postdoc
Nationality: Chilean
Background: Electrical/Biomedical Engineering
Interests: Building and design of Nv center based quantum sensing equipment
Siyu Fan
PhD candidate
Nationality: Chinese
Background: Nanotechnology
Interests: Magnetometry in tissues
Beatriz Fumelli Monti Ribeiro
PhD candidate (primary supervisor Gláucia Maria
Machado-Santelli, University of São Paulo,)
Nationality: Brazilian
Background: Biology
Interests: Graphene oxide, drug delivery
Claudia Reyes San Martin
Postdoc
Nationality: Chilean
Background: Medical technology
Interests: Microscopy, Cell biology, Oxidative stress, Cell migration
Nastaran Ashoori
PhD candidate
Nationality: Iranian
Background: Microbiology, Data science
Interests: Machine learning, data science, vaccine development
Andrea. Boskovic
PhD candidate
Nationality: Croatian
Background: Pharmacy
Interests: Bioreactors, yeast, pharmacy
Elina Tüür
Master student
Nationality: Estonian
Background: Biomedical Sciences
Interests: Antibacterial materials, stress responses
Xixi Wu
PhD candidate
Nationality: Chinese
Cosupervised, (primary location in Kamperman group, https://www.rug.nl/staff/marleen.kamperman/)
Background: Chemistry
Interests: Polymers, 3D printing
Hui Ting Li
MDPhD student
Nationality: Dutch
Background: Medicine
(shared with Hoek lab https://www.umcg.nl/-/a-hoek)
Interests: Fertility
Adela Melcrova
Postdoc
Nationality: Czech
Background: Physics
Interests: Mechanisms of bacterial resistance
Willem Woudstra
Technician
Nationality: Dutch
Background: Biomedical Engineering
Interests: Biofilm formation, bacterial infections, relaxometry
Kaily Chen
Master student
Nationality: Luxembourgers
Background: Biomedical Sciences
Interests: Membranes, stress responses, Cancer biology
Britt Coenen
PhD candidate
Nationality: Dutch
Background: Medical Biology
Interests: Diagnosis and prevention of sepsis
Shared with Geert van den Boogart and Hjalmar Bouma
Harsh Jain
PhD candidate
Nationality: Indian
Background: Physics
Interests: Yeast, bioreactors, optics
Yuanyuan Chai
PhD student
Nationality: Chinese
Background: Chemistry
Interests: Relaxometry, sepsis detection
(primary location in van den Bogaart lab: http://www.membranetrafficking.com/index.html)