Current group

Molecular science is a team effort.

An interdisciplinary group bringing together chemical biology, DNA nanotechnology, membrane biophysics and single-molecule science.

Prof. Stefan Howorka

Principal Investigator · Professor of Chemical Biology

DNA nanotechnology, nanopores, chemical biology

Dr Alexia Rottensteiner

Research Fellow in Chemical Biology

DNA nanotechnology, membrane biophysics, cancer diagnostics and therapeutics

Dr MoMo Zandieh

Research Fellow in DNA Nanotechnology

DNA–lipid interfaces, colloid and interface science

Anna Gaugutz

Doctoral Researcher

Single-molecule microscopy and DNA nanotechnology

Dr Jonah Ciccone

Postdoctoral Researcher

DNA nanotechnology, nanopore sensing and synthetic biology

Postdoctoral researchers

Dr Elena Georgiou2024
Dr Javier Cabello García2022–2024
Dr Adam Dorey2018–2023
Dr Yongzheng Xing2015–2023
Dr Jon Burns2015–2022 and 2011–2014
Dr Rachael Dickman2013–2020
Dr Vinciane Borsenberger2006–2008
Dr David Papapostolou2001–2014

PhD graduates

Dr Elena Georgiou2019–2023
Dr Nora Hagleitner2019–2023
Dr Catherine Webley2019–2023
Dr Aamina Murtza2019–2023
Dr Alexia Rottensteiner2019–2022
Dr Jonah Ciccone2018–2022
Dr Sioned Fôn Jones2017–2022
Dr Hubert Suh Saanfor2018–2021
Dr William Whitehouse2017–2021
Dr Helena Philpott2017–2021
Dr Conor Lanphere2016–2021
Dr Katya Ahmad2017–2020
Dr Daniel Offenbartl-Stiegert2016–2019
Dr Patrick Marthijn Arnott2015–2019
Dr Joanna Louise Donnelly2015–2018
Dr Genevieve Pugh2014–2018
Dr Ha Phuong Nguyen2013–2018
Dr Richard Kerr2010–2014
Dr Paulina Rakowska2010–2014
Dr Mikiembo Kukwikila2008–2013
Dr Hugh Martin2006–2011
Dr Nick Mitchell2005–2010
Dr Helen Kinns2005–2010

Master’s and undergraduate researchers

Anna Szczeniowski2023–2024
Georgina Beese2023–2024
Ting Liu2021–2022
Naeem Kaiyum2019–2020
Shiyi Anna Wang2018–2019
Cindy Feng2018–2019
Kai Chen2017–2018
Katarina Korlova2017–2018
Farzaneh Ataei2017–2018
Gorjan Stojanovski2017
Charlie Haywood2017
Luka Jelic2016–2017
Miguel Paez Perez2016–2017
Gurpreet Virdi2016
Yasmin Surani2016
Matthew Chin2016