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
Stella Axelsson
Master's Student
stellaax@kth.se
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
MARLA HERR
PhD Student
marla.herr@ki.se
MSc 2022, Heidelberg University
BSc 2018, University of Mainz
FATIMA MEMIC
Research Coordinator
fatima.memic@ki.se
PhD 2012, Uppsala University
KASRA NIKOUEI
PhD Student
kasra.nikouei@ki.se
MD 2017, Karolinska Institutet
Evgenia Ntaouka
Master's Student
zeniazen5@gmail.com
BSc 2021, Democritus University of Thrace
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
Current position: Postdoctoral Fellow at the German Cancer Consortium (DKTK), Freiburg, Germany
t.bhuiyan@dkfz-heidelberg.de
CLAIRE FOLDI
Current position: Group Leader at Monash University, Australia
Foldi lab webpage
claire.foldi@monash.edu
EZEQUIEL GOLDSCHMIDT
Visiting Van Wagenen Fellow
Current position: Neurosurgeon and Assistant Professor at the University of California, San Francisco, USA
ezegold@gmail.com
JOSÉ A. MARTÍNEZ-LÓPEZ
Current position: Postdoctoral Fellow at Lund University, Sweden
joseamartinezlopez@gmail.com
ANA B. MUÑOZ-MANCHADO
Current position: Group Leader at the University of Cádiz/INiBICA, Spain
ana.munoz.manchado@ki.se
ana.munoz@uca.es
NATHAN SKENE
Current position: Group Leader at Imperial College London, United Kingdom
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
Current position: Postdoctoral Fellow at Cornell University, USA
Thesis: On GABAergic interneurons diversity and maturation
hermanymv@gmail.com
MASTER STUDENTS AND RESEARCH ASSISTANTS
BO BEKKOUCHE
Previous Master's Student
Current position: PhD Student at Lund University, Sweden
bo.bekkouche@biol.lu.se
JENNY GEHLEN
Previous Research Assistant
Current position: PhD Student at King's College, United Kingdom
jenny.gehlen@kcl.ac.uk
SABINE GNODDE
Previous Master's Student
sabine.gnodde@hotmail.com
ALEXANDRA KOUZNETSOVA
Previous Project Student and Research Assistant
Current position: Veterinary Student at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Sweden
ROGER LAKTENA
Previous Research Assistant
Current position: Dentist in Stockholm, Sweden
MARLENA LÜBKE
Previous Master's Student
Current position: PhD Student at Friedrich Miescher Institute, Germany
marlena.luebke@fmi.ch
STEPHAN NILSSON
Previous Project Student and Research Assistant
Current position: Medical Doctor in Stockholm, Sweden
nilsson.stephan@gmail.com
POLINA OBERST
Previous Master's Student
Current position: Postdoctoral Fellow at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, USA
oberstp@mskcc.org
AMPARO ROIG ADAM
Previous Master's Student
Current position: PhD Student at Vrije Universiteit, Netherlands
a.roigadam@vu.nl
PAUL STÜMPGES
Previous MD Research Student
Current position: Consultant at McKinsey & Company
paul.stumpges@gmail.com