Meet the Team
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Cecilia Sahlgren
Principal investigator (ÅAU and TU/e), Professor of Cell Biology (ÅAU), Professor in Biomedical Engineering (TU/e)
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Malin Åkerfelt
Senior researcher (ÅAU)
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Kati Kemppainen
Project coordinator (ÅAU)
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Elenaé Vázquez-Ulloa
Post-doctoral researcher (ÅAU)
Project: Jagged interactions in neuroendocrine cancer
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Elena Martinez-Klimova
Post-doctoral researcher (ÅAU)
Project: Bioelectronic control of cell functions
Alumni:
PhD students
Laura Tiemeijer (2022, ÅAU), next step: pharmaceutical specialist at Organon, the Netherlands
Valeriy Paramonov (2021, UTU), next step: postdoctoral researcher at Karolinska Institute, Sweden
Nicole van Engeland (2021, ÅAU), next step: system test engineer at ASML, the Netherlands
Daniel Antfolk (2020, ÅAU), next step: postdoctoral researcher at Moffitt Cancer Center, USA
Christian Antila (2020, ÅAU), next step: postdoctoral researcher at the Päivi Koskinen lab, University of Turku, Finland
Jelle Sleebom (2020, TU/e), next step: postdoctoral researcher at the Jaap den Toonder lab, TU/e Mechanical Engineering, the Netherlands
Rob Driessen (2020, TU/e), next step: project manager at Mechanobiology Services Eindhoven (MS/e), the Netherlands
Arianna Mauretti (2018, TU/e), next step: junior researcher QC at Merck Group, Italy
Iris Lähdeniemi (2018, ÅAU, co-supervised with Diana Toivola), next step: postdoctoral researcher at Institute for Molecular Medicine Finland (FIMM), Finland
Sebastian Landor (2016, KI, co-supervised with Urban Lendahl), next step: postdoctoral researcher at Åbo Akademi University
Marika Sjöqvist (2015, ÅAU), next step: postdoctoral researcher at the Emma Andersson lab, Karolinska Institutet, Sweden
Anders Mutvei (2014, KI, co-supervised by Urban Lendahl), next step: postdoctoral researcher at the John Blenis lab at Weill Cornell Medicine / Harvard Medical School, USA; PI, Uppsala University, Sweden
Postdocs
Oscar Stassen, next step: postdoctoral researches at the Jaap den Toonder lab, TU/e, the Netherlands
Hetty Manenschijn
Sebastian Landor
Johanna Ahlskog, next step: senior scientist, Orion Corporation, Finland
Marika Sjöqvist, next step: design transfer specialist, Perkin Elmer, Finland
Tommaso Ristori, next step: postdoctoral researcher at the Christopher S. Chen lab, Boston University, USA; assistant professor, TU/e, the Netherlands
Jolanta Lundgren, next step: postdoctoral researcher at the Pirta Hotulainen lab, University of Helsinki, Finland
Adolfo Rivero-Müller, next step: professor at Medical University of Lublin, Poland
Veronika Mamaeva, deceased with dignity 6.1.2018
MSc students, research technicians, research assistants
Valtteri Lempinen (ÅAU, 2022)
Emma Suhonen (ÅAU, 2021)
Sara Koivuluoma (ÅAU, 2021), next step: Precordior, Finland
Iris M.T. Pijnenburg (TU/e, 2021)
C. van den Bersselaar (TU/e, 2021)
D.D.J.I. Bakker (TU/e, 2021)
Linda Boekestijn (TU/e, 2021)
Jaakko Ahlberg (ÅAU, 2021), next step: Thermo Fisher Scientific, Finland
Iida-Maria Laiho (ÅAU, 2020-2022), next step: Orion Corporation, Finland
Lana Selhorst (TU/e, 2020)
T.N.E. Volleman (TU/e, 2020)
Sami Sanlidag (ÅAU, 2019), next step: PhD student at Cell Fate Lab, Finland
Jakob Storbacka (ÅAU, 2019), next step: chemistry and biology teacher, Finland
Janine Grolleman (TU/e, 2018), next step: PhD student at Cell Fate Lab, the Netherlands
R.A. Quiñonez Uribe (TU/e, 2016)
Jelle Sleeboom (TU/e, 2016), next step: PhD student at Cell Fate Lab, the Netherlands
Laura Tiemeijer (TU/e, 2016), next step: PhD student at Cell Fate Lab, the Netherlands
F.E. Nieuweboer (TU/e, 2016)
Rob Driessen (TU/e, 2015), next step: PhD student at Cell Fate Lab, the Netherlands
M.J.H. Vogel (TU/e, 2015)
B.C.A. Zwarthoed (TU/e, 2015)
G.J. Lancee (TU/e, 2014)
M.I. Verspoor (TU/e, 2014)
National and international collaborators:
Associate professor Emma R. Andersson, Karolinska Institute, Sweden
Associate professor Kayla Bayless, Texas A&M University, USA
Dr. Katie Bentley, Francis Crick Institute, UK
Professor Carlijn Bouten, Eindhoven University of Technology, the Netherlands
Professor Christopher Chen, Boston University, USA
Assistant professor Vito Conte, Eindhoven University of Technology, the Netherlands and IBEC, Spain
Professor Patricia Dankers, Eindhoven University of Technology, the Netherlands
Professor Jaap den Toonder, Eindhoven University of Technology, the Netherlands
Professor John Eriksson, Åbo Akademi University, Finland
Professor Penny Handford, University of Oxford, UK
Professor Apostolos Klinakis, Biomedical Research Foundation of the Academy of Athens, Greece
Adjunct professor, Päivi Koskinen, University of Turku, Finland
Professor Rhett Kovall, University of Cincinnati, USA
Professor Urban Lendahl, Karolinska Institute, Sweden
Professor Bernhard Lendl, Vienna University of Technology, Austria
Professor Mika Lindén, Ulm University, Germany
Associate professor Sandra Loerakker, Eindhoven University of Technology, the Netherlands
Professor Milos Pekny, University of Gothenburg, Sweden
Professor Jessica Rosenholm, Åbo Akademi University, Finland
Professor Chris Siebel, Genentech, USA
Associate professor Diana Toivola, Åbo Akademi University, Finland
Professor Per Uhlén, Karolinska Institute, Sweden
Assistant professor Ye Wang, Eindhoven University of Technology, the Netherlands
Professor Ioanna Zergioti, Institute of Communication and Computer Systems, National Technical University of Athens, Greece
Professor Ronald Österbacka, Åbo Akademi University, Finland
and many valuable collaborators at Åbo Akademi University within Cell Biology, Pharmacy, Physics Chemistry and Molecular Modeling.
