brainiacs retreat 2025

Team

Head of the Institute of Continuum Mechanics and Biomechanics

Prof. Dr.-Ing. Silvia Budday

Professors

Contact

Email: silvia.budday@fau.de

Team Assistance

Julia Deserno

Assistance

Contact

Email: julia.deserno@fau.de
Phone: +49 9131 85 – 67628

Secretariat

Simone Schaetzlein

Administrative staff

Contact

Email: simone.schaetzlein@fau.de
Phone: +49 9131 85 – 28502

Post Docs

Dr. Anahita Ahmadi Soufivand

Research associates

Contact

Email: anahita.a.soufivand@fau.de

Dr. Nicole Tueni

Research associates

Contact

Email: nicole.tueni@fau.de

Dr.-Ing. Mohammad Zarzor

Research associates

Contact

Email: saeed.zarzor@fau.de

Dr. Julia Kolb

Research associates

Contact

Email: julia.kolb@fau.de

Doctoral Researchers

Nina Reiter (M. Sc.)

Research associates

Contact

Email: nina.reiter@fau.de

Jan Hinrichsen (M. Sc.)

Research associates

Contact

Email: jan.hinrichsen@fau.de

Oskar Neumann (M. Sc.)

Research associates

Contact

Email: oskar.neumann@fau.de

Jaimé Erin Goedhals (M. Sc.)

Research associates

Contact

Email: jaime.goedhals@fau.de

Jessica Faber (M. Sc., M. Sc.)

Research associates

Contact

Email: jessica.faber@fau.de

Alexander Greiner (M. Sc.)

Research associates

Contact

Email: alexander.greiner@fau.de

Philipp Scherm (M. Sc.)

Research associates

Contact

Email: philipp.scherm@fau.de

Sahar Zolghadr (M. Sc.)

Research associates

Contact

Email: sahar.zolghadr@fau.de

Associated members

Yashasvi Verma (M. Sc.)

Research associates

Contact

Email: yashasvi.verma@fau.de

Laura Ruhland (M. Sc.)

Research associates

Contact

Email: laura.ruhland@fau.de

Dr. Rahul Gopalan Ramachandran

Research associates

Contact

Email: rahul.ramachandran@fau.de

Laboratory Technician

Technical Staff

Christian Bänsch

Technical staff

Contact

Email: christian.baensch@fau.de
Phone: +49 9131 85 – 25162

Master Students

Harsh Vardhan Surana

Ardalan Setayesh

Elmira Zanjani

Mithun Bisalehalli Sureshbabu

Liubov Minina

Divyashree Narayana

Monika Buss

Satwik Reddy Madyarla

Bachelor Students

Visitors

Dr. Ester Comellas

Lecturer

Edifici Gaia, despatx 181, Rambla Sant Nebridi, 22
08019 Barcelona
Spain

Website: https://sites.google.com/view/estercomellas

PD Dr. Dr. Natascha Schäfer

Privatdozentin

Versbacher Straße 5
97078 Würzburg
Germany

Website: https://www.ukw.de/kontakt-detailseite/name/schaefer-natascha/

Dr. Majahonkhe Shabangu

Anzio Rd, Observatory
7935 Cape Town
South Africa

Website: https://health.uct.ac.za/biomedical-engineering/research/mechanobiology

Former Members

Emma Griffiths

Taraswin Gottipati

Benedikt Rauh

Emine Deniz Bicer

Chiara Schoppe

Sumanth Reddy Settipalli

Hariramkumar Vennilavan Thenmozhi

Dr.-Ing. Xiaoling Luo

Egerlandstraße 5
91058 Erlangen

Phone number: +49 9131 85-28516
Email: xiaoling.luo@fau.de
Website: https://department.mb.uni-erlangen.de

Vamsi Krishna Chalampalem

Felix Jablonowski

Rutvi Shah

Abdallah Farhat

Kimia Hashemizadeh

Anne Mareike Schäfer

Lea Feiler

Sarah Nistler

Biswaroop Roy

Nicole Häck

Johanna Schneider

Jennifer Kurz

Jasmin Würges

Katharina Mai

Rojda Kocak

Lena Kretzschmar

Jule Pfefferle

Alina Weizel

PhD student

Carl Ferlay

Master Student