HI-STEM - Key Persons


Abdul Rahman Itani

Job Titles:
  • Student

Andrea Kuck

Job Titles:
  • Technical Assistant / HI - STEM Lab Manager

Anja Semper

Job Titles:
  • Bachelor Student

Ankita Jha

Job Titles:
  • Research Assistant

Antonia Bauer

Job Titles:
  • Master Student

Antonia Kurtz

Job Titles:
  • Research Assistent

Brenda Besemer

Job Titles:
  • Master Student

Carolin Artmann

Job Titles:
  • Technician

Corinna Klein

Job Titles:
  • Research Technician

Dagmar Wolf

Job Titles:
  • Personal Assistant
  • Administration and Project Management / Personal Assistant Prof. Trumpp
  • Business Administration Assistant
  • Personal Assistant Prof. Trumpp
For getting into contact with Prof. Trumpp or other HI-STEM group leaders, please contact Dagmar Wolf.

Daniel Hannuschke

Job Titles:
  • Master Student

Dominique Schulz

Job Titles:
  • Master Student

Dr. Dr. Daniel Hübschmann

Job Titles:
  • Group Leader / Research

Dr. Ewgenija Gutjahr

Job Titles:
  • Clinician Scientist

Dr. Marc Thier

Job Titles:
  • Head
  • Clinician Scientist

Dr. Marieke Essers

Job Titles:
  • Group Leader
  • Head
  • HI - STEM Research Group Leader

Dr. Martin Sprick

Job Titles:
  • Head

Dr. Michael Milsom

Job Titles:
  • Head
  • HI - STEM Research Group Leader

Dr. Nikolai Schleußner

Job Titles:
  • Clinician Scientist

Dr. Patrick Stelmach

Job Titles:
  • Clinician Scientist

Dr. Raphael Lutz

Job Titles:
  • Clinician Scientist

Dr. Rene Jackstadt

Job Titles:
  • Group Leader
  • Head
  • Research

Dr. Sena Alptekin

Job Titles:
  • Clinician Scientist

Dr. Simon Haas

Job Titles:
  • Head
  • Junior Group Leader
Simon studied Molecular Cell Biology, Biochemistry and Molecular Biosciences with major Cancer Biology at Heidelberg University, Imperial College London and the German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ). He received his PhD from DKFZ and Heidelberg University in 2016. Simon performed research at DKFZ, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Harvard. Since 2016, he is junior group leader at HI-STEM.

Dr. Simon Raffel

Job Titles:
  • Clinician Scientist

Dr. Simon Renders

Job Titles:
  • Clinician Scientist

Dr. Simone Feurstein

Job Titles:
  • Clinician Scientist

Dr. Ömer Copur

Job Titles:
  • Administration and Project Management
  • Scientific Coordinator DKFZ - ZMBH Alliance

Esther Rodríguez Correa

Job Titles:
  • Student

Foteini Fotopoulou

Job Titles:
  • Student

Frank Yi-Tao Huang

Job Titles:
  • Medical Student

Gabriele Diamante

Job Titles:
  • Student

Ian Ghezzi

Job Titles:
  • Student

Jasmin Meier

Job Titles:
  • Technical Assistant

Jennifer Lewis

Job Titles:
  • Student

Jonas Schwickert

Job Titles:
  • Student

Juliane Schmidt

Job Titles:
  • Medical Student

Karolin Stumpf

Job Titles:
  • Student

Lea Jopp-Saile

Job Titles:
  • Student

Lea Triebel

Job Titles:
  • Master Student

Lena Bognar

Job Titles:
  • Student

Lina Merg

Job Titles:
  • Master Student

Luca Deininger

Job Titles:
  • Student

Lukas Reiter

Job Titles:
  • Medical Student

Magdalena Pajonk

Job Titles:
  • Student

Manuel Mastel

Job Titles:
  • Student

Markus Sohn

Job Titles:
  • Technical Assistant

Miray Ümmühan Yigit

Job Titles:
  • Research Assistant

Natalie Stumpf

Job Titles:
  • Technicial Assistant

Nikolaos Georgakopoulos

Job Titles:
  • Student

Nils Wörner

Job Titles:
  • Master Student

Nimisha Khurana

Job Titles:
  • Research Assistant

Nina Hahnen

Job Titles:
  • Master Student

Nuria Vaquero Siguero

Job Titles:
  • Student

Paul Schwerd-Kleine

Job Titles:
  • Student

Petra Zeisberger

Job Titles:
  • Technical Assistant

Priyanka Venkatesh

Job Titles:
  • Research Assistant

Prof. Dr. Andreas Trumpp

Job Titles:
  • Head
  • Head of Division
Head of Division "Stem Cells and Cancer" and Managing Director of HI-STEM

Prof. Dr. Christof Hettich

Prof Dr. Hettich is a lawyer and partner at RITTERSHAUS Rechtsanwälte in Mannheim, Germany and is specializing the fields of Mergers & Acquisitions, the structuring and restructuring of companies as well as general corporate law. He is also a co-founder and managing director of dievini Hopp BioTech holding GmbH & Co. KG. For many years he has been on boards of private and publicly traded companies in different industry sectors. Dr. Hettich is currently also the Chief Executive Officer of SRH Holding as well as an honorary professor at the Hochschule Heidelberg. He was for many years also an assistant lecturer at the University of Heidelberg (LL.M. coporate restructuring). He studied law and political science at the Universities of Freiburg, Würzburg and Mannheim, Germany and received his Ph.D. from the University of Würzburg, Germany.

Prof. Dr. Michael Baumann

Job Titles:
  • Chairman and Scientific Member of the Board of Directors of the German Cancer Research Center
  • Specialist
Since November 2016, Prof. Dr. Michael Baumann is chairman and scientific member of the board of directors of the German Cancer Research Center. Prof. Baumann is a specialist in radiooncology. Before taking his position at the DKFZ, he was Chair of the Department of Radiation Oncology at the University Hospital Carl Gustav Carus, director at the Institute for Radiooncology at the Helmholtz Center Dresden-Rossendorf, as well as director of the OncoRay Center. Furthermore, he was the founding director of the University Cancer Center Dresden and spokesperson of the DKTK and NCT partner site Dresden. His research focuses on translational-orientated experimental radiotherapy and radiobiology, as well as the treatment of lung and head and neck cancer.

Rebecca Lipp

Job Titles:
  • Technician

Rebecca Weber

Job Titles:
  • Technical Assistant

Sercan Öz

Job Titles:
  • Master Student

Sonia Fernández Torices

Job Titles:
  • Student

Tasneem Cheytan

Job Titles:
  • Student

Tim Vorberg

Job Titles:
  • Student

Umberto Pozza

Job Titles:
  • Master Student

Ursula Weyrich

Since January 2020, Ursula Weyrich acts as Administrative Director of DKFZ. Before joining the DKFZ, she held executive position at the German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases, the GSI Helmholtz Centre for Heavy Ion Research and the Facility for Antiproton and Ion Research in Europe (FAIR) GmbH in Darmstadt and at the German Federal Ministry for Education and Research (BMBF).

Yannick Lorz

Job Titles:
  • Medical Student

Yara Lackousha

Job Titles:
  • Student