Ani Kicheva, Professor

Ani started her group at IST Austria in November 2015. She did a postdoc at MRC National Institute for Medical Research (currently The Francis Crick Institute), London, with James Briscoe. She did her Ph. D with Marcos González-Gaitán at the Max Planck Institute of Cell Biology and Genetics, Dresden and the University of Geneva.

Martina Greunz, technical assistant

Martina is from Austria and did her Masters degree at the University of Vienna. She started working in the lab in March 2016.

Stefanie Lehr, PhD student

Steffi joined the lab in December 2017. She did her Master’s thesis at the University of Edinburgh. Steffi obtained an NFB fellowship for her PhD project on the regulatory logic of pattern formation in the dorsal neural tube.

Kasumi Kishi, PhD student

Kasumi joined the lab in July 2018. She did her Master’s degree at the University of Bristol. Kasumi’s PhD project focuses on notochord morphogenesis in mouse development.

Thomas Minchington, postdoc

Tom joined the lab in November, 2020 after doing his PhD with Nancy Papalopulu and Sam Griffiths-Jones at the University of Manchester.

Amrita Singh, postdoc

Amrita did her PhD with Maja Matis at the University of Muenster. She joined the lab in April, 2021 to work on understanding the interplay between mechanical forces and tissue growth in neural tube development. Amrita received IST Fellow and EMBO fellowships for her project.

Rohit Krishnan Harish, postdoc

Prior to joining the lab in 2022, Rohit did his PhD in Dresden in the lab of Michael Brand. He obtained an IST Bridge fellowship to study the mechanisms of restorative growth in the developing spinal cord.

Sebastian Böhm, Masters student

Sebastian joined the lab in January 2024. He studies restorative growth in the spinal cord using organoids.

Jindřiška Leischner Fialová, postdoc

Jindřiška joined the lab in 2024, after doing her PhD at the University of Copenhagen. She obtained an IST Fellow fellowship to investigate the cellular basis of BMP gradient formation in the developing spinal cord.

Sára Fülöp, scientific intern

Sára joined the lab in 2024, after obtaining her Masters degree in Biotechnology in Budapest.

Camila Velastegui, scientific intern

Camila joined the lab in 2024. She did her Bachelors degree in Ecuador and afterwards did two Master thesis projects, one at the University of Montpellier and one at the University of Vienna.