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. Ralf Galuske
Dean for Student Affairs
Systems neurophysiology
+49 6151 16-20950
B1|01 167
Prof. Dr. H. Ulrich Göringer		Molecular genetics
+49 6151 16-24642
B2|03 330a
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. Andreas Jürgens		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
Department spokesperson for PhD
Systems biology of the stress response
+49 6151 16-28060
B2|06 205
Prof. Dr. Dominik Niopek		Biology of eukaryotic gene and genome regulation
20658
B2/05 09
Prof. Dr. Ulrike A. Nuber		Stem cell and developmental biology
+49 6151 16-24600
B2|06 06
Prof. Dr. Felicitas Pfeifer		Microbiology and Archaea
+49 6151 16-23670
B2|03 350
Prof. Dr. Jörg Simon
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|05 208
Prof. Dr. Beatrix Suess		Synthetic RNA biology
+49 6151 16-22000
B2|03 064
Prof. Dr. Gerhard Thiel		Plant membrane biophysics
+49 6151 16-21940
B1|01 183
Prof. Dr. Torsten Waldminghaus		Molecular microbiology
20332
B2/05 207
Prof. Dr. Heribert Warzecha		Plant biotechnology & metabolic engineering
+49 6151 16-20900
B1|02 4

Junior & independent faculty

  Name Working area(s) Contact
Madeleine Crößmann-Amend 		Fachdidaktik Biologie
+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
Dr. Meike Saul		Extracellular vesicles & miRNA research
+49 6151 16-22005
B2|03 E27
Dr. Julia Weigand		RNA biochemistry
+49 6151 16-22005
B2|03 E27
PD Dr. Simon Poppinga		Botanical Garden, Plant biomechanics, functional morphology, and biomimetics
22340
B1/08

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
PD Dr. Matthias Munk
Universitätsklinikum Tübingen
Neural plasticity modulated by oscillations
+49 6151 16-20952

Emeritus Professors

Prof. Dr. Adam Bertl

Yeast Membrane Biology

Prof Dr. Paul Layer

Developmental Biology and Neurogenetics

Prof. Dr. Angelika Schwabe-Kratochwil

Vegetation Ecology and Restoration Ecology

Former junior & independent labs

PD Dr. Christopher Kaiser-Bunbury

Applied Network Ecology and Island Conservation

PD Dr. Indra Schröder

High Resolution Ion Channel Dynamics

PD Dr. Astrid Vogel-Höpker

Regulation of Early Eye Development