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
AISHA AHMED
Research administrator
aisha.ahmed@ki.se
PhD 2010, Karolinska Institutet
LISA BAST
Postdoctoral fellow
lisa.bast@ki.se
PhD 2021, Technical University Munich
MSc 2014, Technical University Munich
BSc 2011, Koblenz University of Applied Sciences
HAYLEY FRENCH
PhD student
hayley.french@ki.se
MSc 2020, Karolinska Institutet
BSc 2018, University of Toronto
LYNN GEYER
Research assistant
lynn.yintao.geyer@stud.ki.se
ELIN GRUYTERS
Postdoctoral fellow
elin.gruyters@ki.se
PhD 2020, Stockholm University
CivEng 2009 Royal Insitute of Technology.
FATIMA MEMIC
Research coordinator
fatima.memic@ki.se
PhD 2012, Uppsala University.
KASRA NIKOUEI
PhD student
kasra.nikouei@ki.se
MD 2017, Karolinska Institutet
PAUL STÜMPGES
MD research student
paul.stumpges@gmail.com
MD 2021, Heidelburg University
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
EZEQUIEL GOLDSCHMIDT
Previous Van Wagenen fellow in the lab, currently neurosurgeon and assistant professor at UCSF, USA.
ezegold@gmail.com
JOSÉ A. MARTÍNEZ-LÓPEZ
Currently postdoc at Lund university, Sweden.
joseamartinezlopez@gmail.com
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
JENNY GEHLEN
Previous research assistant in the lab, currently PhD-student at King's College, UK.
jenny.gehlen@kcl.ac.uk
SABINE GNODDE
Previous master student in the lab.
sabine.gnodde@hotmail.com
MARLA HERR
Previous master student in the lab.
marla-katharina@gmx.de
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
AMPARO ROIG ADAM
Previous master student in the lab, currently PhD student at Vrije Universiteit, Netherlands.
a.roigadam@vu.nl