Team

Team Members

Karl Boegel

Molecular and Cellular Biology Education

Karl is both the most serious and the funniest person on the team, which may be why he is able to keep the education team running smoothly.

Matvii Lomonosov

Molecular Biotechnology Project Manager

As our Project Manager, Matvii keeps our team on track with various project goals and organises fantastic team-building events.

Felipe Navarro Martinez

Responsibility in Science, Engineering and Technology Human Practices

As a human practices responsible, Felipe helps to find the best experts for our team and drives the important self-reflection of the team's actions.

Natalia Kuzmierkiewicz

Human Biology Wet Lab

Natalia’s undying energy and strong sense of responsibility motivates everyone in the bacterial part of the lab. Moreover, she manages our iGEM parts register.

Raya Moyankova

Molecular Biotechnology Design & Social Media

Raya has the honour of being the design team. If you have appreciated our social media posts, it is because she is the team's publicity expert.

Annika Siebenhaar

Bioinformatics Wiki

Annika passionately handles everything that is related to Wiki, especially code-based tasks, and helps out a lot in the dry lab.

Mykhailo Lytvynenko

Molecular and Cellular Biology Wet Lab

Mike’s experience in the mammalian cell lab and iGEM allows the wet lab to work relentlessly and in the most optimal way.

Matias Brezina Borges

Molecular and Cellular Biology Dry Lab

Matias is responsible for managing the dry lab. He is always full of ideas and makes all the necessary improvements to our model.

Nika Kobetic

Biochemistry Finance

Nika’s tasks include finding and contacting new sponsors, although she also helps other team members with various issues.

Virginia Dorigo

Biochemistry Finance & Education

As a highly energetic person, Virginia handles financial tasks and creates fantastic educational events.

Nicole Soza Santiestevez

Molecular Biotechnology Human Practices

Nicole is a really enthusiastic person and likes to travel a lot. She helps to find and contact the experts.

Kristina Poliakova

Bioinformatics Software

Kristina is part of the wiki team, dry lab team and has worked really hard to create our software tool.

Team PI

Prof. Dr. Gil Westmeyer

Professor Westmeyer, based both at TUM and Helmholtz Center Munich, focuses on engineering molecular sensors and actuators for imaging and controlling cellular processes across entire organisms. His work combines synthetic biology and nanotechnology to advance tissue engineering and cell therapies, with applications in neurobehavioral and organoid research.

Team Advisors

Igor Koop

Advisor

Igor has already been twice part of the iGEM Munich team. He advises us on being a perfect iGEM team and guides us on the way of developing our project

Till Gundlach

Advisor

Till is an iGEM Munich 2022 veteran. His help was essential for visualizing and conceptualizing the project.

Lilly May

Advisor

Lily was a part of the iGEM Munich 2022. This year she conducted workshops within the Bioinformatics day for high school students.

Jonathan Costa

Advisor

Being the head of the Wiki in iGEM Munich 2022 and 2023 teams, Jonathan helped us a lot in creating code for the wiki.

Anna Eisenmenger

Advisor

Anna was a member of iGEM Munich 2023. She helped fundrasing, as well as organized a retreat for team development.

Martin Biechl

Advisor

Being a member in iGEM 2023, this year Martin provided the help improve the orginising education events.

Team Instructors

Lucas Mair

Instructor Wiki

Lucas is a great instructor for our team, his experience and knowledge help us enormously, especially in the dry lab. He is interested in development of neuronal-computational systems

Alberto Piovessan

Instructor WetLab

Alberto is a PhD focuses on the de novo design of protein-based nanostructures for use as high-resolution reporters and sensors. He helped with day-to-day supervision in lab