Current wet-lab Team
in the Hoffmann group
Martin Fischer
Principal Investigator, Staff Scientist
Martin is heading the wet-lab facility of the Hoffmann group and the research presented on this website.
Kanstantsin Siniuk
Postdoc
Kanstantsin joined our team in July 2023 as a postdoc. He is an expert in the DNA damage response and received his PhD in 2021 in Prof. Zhao-Qi Wang's group at the FLI.
Omid Omrani
Postdoc
Omid joined our team in January 2024 as a postdoc. He is an expert in stem cells and received his PhD in 2020 in Prof. Lenhard Rudolph's group at the FLI.
Katjana Schwab
Scientist
Kati is a research scientist in our team. She joined in August 2019 as a student and has completed her Master's (2021) and PhD theses (2025) in our group.
Gupse Özcan
PhD Student
Gupse joined our team in March 2023. She is a joint PhD Student of Tino Schenk's group and our lab. She is part of the IZKF Graduate Programme Experimental Medicine within the Jena School of Molecular Medicine (JSMM).
Silke Förste
Technician
Silke is a technician in our group and long-term staff member of the institute.
Sandra Fischer
Master student
Sandra joined our team in October 2024. She is a Master student of Molecular Medicine and works on her Master's thesis in our lab.
Linus Blochinger
Master student
Linus joined our team in October 2024. He is a Master student of Molecular Medicine and works on his Master's thesis in our lab.
Previous wet-lab Team Members / Alumni
Lukas Grein, Master student (10/2023 to 04/2025)
Jonas Mewes, Bachelor student (04/2024 to 09/2024)
Carla Ziegler, Master student (10/2022 to 09/2023)
Anna-Lena Bohm, PhD student (01/2022 – 09/2022)
Luis Coronel, Postdoc (09/2019 – 08/2021) –
David Häckes, Master student (10/2019 to 02/2021), Research Assistant (04/2021 to 07/2021)
Lena Semerau, Bachelor student (04/2018 to 09/2018)