The Staff

Prof. Dr. Viktoria Däschlein-Gessner
Chairholder

Office: NC 2/70
Fon: +49 (0)234 32-24174
Fax: +49 (0)234 32-14174

viktoria.daeschlein-gessner[at]rub.de 

Sabine Pankau
Office and Administration

Office: NC 2/71
Fon: +49 (0)234 32-23629
Fax: +49 (0)234 32-14174

sabine.pankau[at]rub.de

Dr. Bert Mallick
Senior Scientist

Office: NC 2/73
Fon: +49 (0)234 32-27313

bert.mallick[at]rub.de

Dr. Kai-Stephan Feichtner
Senior Scientist

Office: NC 2/73        
Fon: +49 (0)234 32-23845   

kai-stephan.feichtner[at]rub.de

Dagmar Müller
Technical Coworker

Office: NC 2/74
Fon: +49 (0)234 32-28641

dagmar.mueller[at]rub.de

Maurice Valentin form. Paaßen
Technical Coworker

Office: NC 2/74   
Fon: +49 (0)234 32-12721
Lab: NC 2/68  

maurice.paassen[at]rub.de

Fabian Töpfer
Technical Coworker

Office: NC 2/74

Fon: +49 (0)234 32-28378

fabian.toepfer[at]rub.de

Post-Docs

Dr. Ian C. Chagunda

joined the group in 2025

Office: NC 2/67      


ian.chagunda[at]rub.de
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Dr. Andrey Petrov

joined the group in 2025

Office: NC 2/25      


andrey.petrov[at]rub.de
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Dr. Gregory Gaube

joined the group in 2025

Office: NC 2/67       

gregory.gaube[at]rub.de

Dr. Deepti Sharma

joined the group in 2023

Office: NC 2/26       
Lab: NC 2/25 2/68


deepti.sharma[ät]rub.de

Dr. Julian Löffler

joined the group in 2020

Office: NC 2/32



julian.loeffler[at]rub.de


Dr. Prasenjit Palui

joined the group in 2026

Office: NC 2/31      
Lab: NC 2/25 2/68


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Dr. Nicolas Kaiser

joined the group 2022

Office: NC 2/67       
Lab: NC 2/25 2/68


nicolas.kaiser[at]rub.de
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Ph.D. Students

Manoj Kumar

joined the group 2022

Office: NC 2/31       
Lab: NC 2/25 2/68


Manoj.Kumar[at]rub.de
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Sunita Mondal

joined the group 2022

Office: NC 2/26       
Lab: NC 2/25 2/68


sunita.mondal[at]rub.de

Aya Alhaddad

joined the group 2023

Office: NC 2/32  

aya.alhaddad[at]rub.de

Stephan Mayer

joined the group 2024

Office: NC 2/67  


stephan.mayer[at]rub.de

Rahul Parmar

joined the group 2025

Office: NC 2/31 

Rahul.Parmar[at]rub.de
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Julian Göbel

joined the group 2025

Office: NC 2/32

Julian.goebel-s6f[at]rub.de

Anna Mensing

joined the group 2025

Office: NC 2/31 

Lab: NC 2/25 2/68

Anna.Mensing[at]rub.de
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Prabhakar Tiwari

joined the group 2026

Office: NC 2/31 

Lab: NC 2/25 2/68

prabhakar.tiwari[at]ruhr-uni-bochum.de

Kumarjit Sen 

joined the group 2026

Office: NC 2/26 

Lab: NC 2/25 2/68

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Master/Bachelor/Indepth Students

Margarita Shishkova

Malina Schramm


Alexander Hoffmann

Vladislava Kulinich

Jasper Kraehe

Sabeeka Ahsan

Nico Peters

Alumni

Julia Weismann
Until 2015

Sebastian Molitor
Until 2016

Chandrajeet Mohapatra
Until 2019

S. V. S. N. Swamy. Varre
Until 2020

Heidar Darmandeh
Until 2021

Abir Sarbajna

Until 2022

Sébastien  Lapointe

Until 2022

Richard Gauld

Until 2022

Ilja Rodstein
Until 2022

Jens Handelmann
Until 2023

Michelle Kleinhaus (ehem. Schmidt) 
Until 2023

Zhao Zhao
Until 2023

Angela Burhenn
(ehem. Großjohann)

Until 2024

Felix Krischer
Until 2024

Alaa Omar Omar 

Until 2024

Mike Jörges

Until 2025

Robert Ward

Until 2025

Arpan Das

Until 2025

Quentin Le Dé

Until 2025

Lennart Hensle

Until 2025

 
Cheng-Han Yu

Until 2025

 
Leif Kelling

Until 2026


Daniel Knyszek

Until 2026


Henning Remm

Until 2026


Alexander Linke

Until 2026

Prakash Duari
Until 2026

Former students 

Julius Busse

Margarita Shishkova

 Tizian van Thiel 

 Julius Busse 

 Anna Marianovic 

 Lea Räkow 

 Perinbanthan S 

Manh Hung Tran

Steve Mecklenburg