The campus hosts nineteen senior labs as well as five junior and independent labs. Researchers collaborate widely and successfully with both national and international research institutions and a range of industry partners. For additional information and details, please follow the corresponding link.

Faculty

  Name Research Group Contact
Prof. Dr. Nico Blüthgen
Ecological networks
+49 6151 16-75411
B1|01 262
Prof. Dr. M. Cristina Cardoso
Post doctoral scientists spokesperson and Department spokesperson for PhD
Cell biology & epigenetics
+49 6151 16-21882
B2|03 204
Prof. Dr. Marcel Dann
Bio-Inspired Energy Conversion
22749
B2/03 349
Prof. Dr. Ralf Galuske
Systems neurophysiology
+49 6151 16-20950
B1|01 167
Prof. Dr. Kay Hamacher
Mathematical modeling and data analytics
+49 6151 16-20370
B1|08 203
Apl. Prof. Dr. Michael Heethoff
Animal evolutionary ecology
+49 6151 16-75417
B1|01 264
Prof. Dr. Sebastian Hess
Biology of Algae and Protozoa
+49 6151 16-21940
B1|01 189
Prof. Dr. Patrick Heun
Chromosome organisation & Centromere identity
+49 6151 16-24642
B2|03 330a
Prof. Dr. Andreas Jürgens
Dean for Student Affairs
Chemical plant ecology
+49 6151 16-21850
B2|03 162
Prof. Dr. Ralf Kaldenhoff
Applied plant sciences
+49 6151 16-22250
B2|03 265
Prof. Dr. Bodo Laube
Neurophysiology and neurosensory systems
+49 6151 16-20970
B1|01 290
Prof. Dr. Markus Löbrich
Radiation biology and DNA repair
+49 6151 16-24620
B2|06 105
Prof. Dr. Alexander Loewer
Dean
Systems biology of the stress response
+49 6151 16-28060
B2|06 205
Prof. Dr. Ulrike A. Nuber
Stem cell and developmental biology
+49 6151 16-24600
B2|06 06
Prof. Dr. Jörg Simon
Vice-Dean
Microbial energy conversion & biotechnology
+49 6151 16-24680
B2|03 308
Prof. Dr. Viktor Stein
Protein engineering: signalling and transport
+49 6151 16-21947
B2|08 113
Prof. Dr. Beatrix Suess
Synthetic RNA biology
+49 6151 16-22000
B2|03 064
Prof. Dr. Torsten Waldminghaus
Molecular microbiology
+49 6151 16-20332
B2|08 103
Prof. Dr. Heribert Warzecha
Plant biotechnology & metabolic engineering
+49 6151 16-20900
B1|02 4

Independent faculty

  Name Working area(s) Contact
Madeleine Crößmann-Amend
, Fachdidaktik
+49 6151 16-22059
B2I03 132
PD Dr. Arnulf Kletzin
Sulfur biochemistry & microbial bioenergetics
+49 6151 16-23682
B2|03 355
Dr. Andreas Leclerque
Insect-associated Microorganisms and Microbial Control
B1|02 102
PD Dr. Simon Poppinga
Botanical Garden, Plant biomechanics, functional morphology, and biomimetics
22340
B1/08
  Name Working area(s) Contact
PD Dr. Christopher Kaiser-Bunbury
Senior Lecturer in Conservation & Ecology
Applied Network Ecology and Island Conservation
Dr. Meike Saul
Extracellular vesicles & miRNA research
+49 6151 16-22005
B2|03 E27
PD Dr. Indra Schröder
Heisenberg Fellow
High Resolution Ion Channel Dynamics
03641 - 9 397686
PD Dr. Astrid Vogel-Höpker
Regulation of Early Eye Development in the Developing Chick Embryo
+49 6151 16-27279
B2|07
Dr. Julia Weigand
RNA biochemistry
+49 6151 16-22005
B2|03 E27

Associated faculty

  Name Working area(s) Contact
PD Dr. Jürgen Gross
Head of Applied Chemical Ecology Lab
Institute for plant protection in fruit crops and viticulture, Julius Kühn Institute (JKI) Dossenheim
+49 (0) 6221 868 05-21
apl. Prof. Dr. Johannes Jehle
Institute for Biological Control Federal Research Center for Cultivated Plants, Julius Kühn Institute (JKI), About Johannes Jehle
+49 6151 407220
Prof. Dr. Heinz Koeppl
Department of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology, TU Darmstadt
Self-Organizing Systems
+49 6151 16-57 235
S3|06 202
PD Dr. Tobias Meckel
Department of Chemistry, TU Darmstadt
Membrane and paper dynamics
+49 6151 16-23729
L2|04 E307
Prof. Dr. Burkhard Jakob
Head Molecular Radiobiology & Imaging Group
Dept. Biophysics GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung