CURRENT LAB MEMBERS
JENS HJERLING LEFFLER
Associate professor and group leader
+46 8 52486974
jens.hjerling-leffler@ki.se
PhD 2006, Karolinska Institutet
Twitter: @HjerlingLeffler
LISA BAST
Postdoctoral fellow
lisa.bast@ki.se
MSc 2014, Technical University Munich
BSc 2011, Koblenz University of Applied Sciences
HAYLEY FRENCH
Master student
hayley.french@stud.ki.se
BSc 2018, University of Toronto.
JENNY GEHLEN
Research assistant
jenny.gehlen@stud.ki.se
EZEQUIEL GOLDSCHMIDT
Van Wagenen fellow
ezegold@gmail.com
Neurosurgery residency finished 2020, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center
PhD 2015 Buenos Aires University Medical School
MD 2009 Buenos Aires University Medical School
ELIN GRUYTERS
Postdoctoral fellow
elin.gruyters@ki.se
PhD 2020, Stockholm University
CivEng 2009 Royal Insitute of Technology.
MARLA HERR
Master student
marla-katharina@gmx.de
BSc 2018, Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz.
JOSÉ A. MARTÍNEZ-LÓPEZ
Postdoctoral fellow
jose.martinez.lopez@ki.se
PhD 2016, University of Seville
MEng 2013, University of Seville
BE 2008, University of Seville
FATIMA MEMIC
Research coordinator
fatima.memic@ki.se
PhD 2012, Uppsala University.
KASRA NIKOUEI
PhD student
kasra.nikouei@ki.se
MD 2017, Karolinska Institutet
AMPARO ROIG ADAM
Master student
amparora@kth.se
BSc 2018, Polytechnic University of Valencia
MILDA VALIUKONYTE
PhD student
milda.valiukonyte@ki.se
MSc 2019, Royal Institute of Technology (with Karolinska Insitutet and Stockholm University)
BSc 2017, Vilnius University.
ALUMNI
POSTDOCTORAL FELLOWS
TANJA BHUIYAN
Currently postdoc at the German Cancer Consortium (DKTK), Freiburg, Germany.
t.bhuiyan@dkfz-heidelberg.de
CLAIRE FOLDI
Currently group leader at Monash University, Australia.
Foldi lab webpage
claire.foldi@monash.edu
ANA B. MUÑOZ-MANCHADO
Currently group leader at University of Cádiz/INiBICA, Spain.
ana.munoz.manchado@ki.se
ana.munoz@uca.es
NATHAN SKENE
Currently group leader at Imperial College London, UK.
Skene lab webpage
n.skene@imperial.ac.uk
PhD STUDENTS
CAROLINA BENGTSSON GONZALES
Thesis: Electrophysiological and Molecular Diversity of Forebrain Interneurons.
bengtssongonzales@gmail.com
HERMANY MUNGUBA
Currently postdoc at Cornell University, USA.
Thesis: On GABAergic interneurons diversity and maturation
hermanymv@gmail.com
MASTER STUDENTS AND RESEARCH ASSISTANTS
BO BEKKOUCHE
Previous master student in the lab, currently PhD-student at Lund University, Sweden.
bo.bekkouche@biol.lu.se
ALEXANDRA KOUZNETSOVA
Previous project student and research assistant in the lab, currently veterinary student at Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences.
ROGER LAKTENA
Previous research assistant in the lab, currently clinically active as a dentist in Stockholm, Sweden.
MARLENA LÜBKE
Previous master student in the lab, currently PhD-student at Friedrich Miescher Institute, Germany.
marlena.luebke@fmi.ch
STEPHAN NILSSON
Previous project student and research assistant in the lab, currently clinically active as a medical doctor at Sankt Göran's hospital in Stockholm.
nilsson.stephan@gmail.com
POLINA OBERST
Previous master student in the lab, currently postdoc at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, USA.
oberstp@mskcc.org