Phone: +1 212 327 7993
Email: vaziri[at]rockefeller[dot]edu
Professor, Head of Laboratory
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Alipasha Vaziri, Ph.D.
Laboratory Manager
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John Mavroudes, M.Sc.
Phone: +1 212 327 7994
Email: jmavroudes[at]rockefeller[dot]edu
Research Assistant Professor
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Tobias Noebauer, Ph.D.
Phone: +1 212 327 7996
Email: tnobauer[at]rockefeller[dot]edu
Staff
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Yujie Shen, Ph.D.
Optical Engineer II
Phone: +1 212 327 7995
Email: yshen01[at]rockefeller[dot]edu
Postdocs
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Hao Li, Ph.D.
Phone: +1 212 327 7995
Email: hli03[at]rockefeller[dot]edu
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Kalyan Santra, Ph.D.
Phone: +1 212 327 7995
Email: ksantra[at]rockefeller[dot]edu
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Jingkun Guo, Ph.D.
Phone: +1 212 327 7995
Email: jguo[at]rockefeller[dot]edu
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Yao Wang, Ph.D.
Phone: +1 212 327 7995
Email: ywang07[at]rockefeller[dot]edu
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Agustina Frechou, Ph.D.
Phone: +1 212 327 7995
Email: frechou[at]rockefeller[dot]edu
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Nikita Kulachenkov, Ph.D.
Phone: +1 212 327 7995
Email: nkulachenkov[at]rockefeller[dot]edu
Ph.D. Students
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Kevin Barber, M.Sc.
Phone: +1 212 327 7995
Email: kbarber[at]rockefeller[dot]edu
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Matthew Davenport, B.Sc.-BME
Phone: +1 212 327 7995
Email: mdavenport[at]rockefeller[dot]edu
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Santiago Otero Coronel, M.D.
Phone: +1 212 327 7995
Email: soterocoronel[at]rockefeller[dot]edu
Visiting Researchers
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Jyun-you Liou, M.D., Ph.D
Visting Assistant Professor
Phone: +1 212 327 7995
Email: jliou[at]rockefeller[dot]edu
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Arash Bellafard, Ph.D.
Visiting Research Scientist
Phone: +1 212 327 7995
Email: abellafard[at]mednet[dot]ucla[dot]edu
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Francesca Logiacco, Ph.D.
Visiting Fellow
Phone: +1 212 327 7995
Email: flogiacco[at]rockefeller[dot]edu
Alumni
- Francisca Martínez Traub, Ph.D.
- Jason Manley, Ph.D., Neuroscientist at Beacon Biosignals
- David Chen, Ph.D., Light-microscopy specialist at 3i
- Qian Lin, Ph.D., Assistant Professor at University of Toronto
- Yuanlong Zhang, Ph.D., postdoc at Tsinghua University
- Jeffery Demas, Ph.D., Research Assistant Professor at Boston University College of Engineering
- Hossein Sarafraz Yazdi, Ph.D.
- Frank Tejera, Ph.D.
- Lei Zhang, B.S.
- Hyewon Kim, B.S., Scientific Communications & Engagement Manager at Sainsbury Wellcome Centre
- Yongxiao Li, Ph.D.
- Yang Wang, Ph.D., Senior Quantum Scientist at Qunnect
- Nicholas Tenci, B.Sc., B.Com., Ph.D. student at University of Oxford
- Brandon Chen, B.A., Ph.D. student at NYU
- Ben Urban, Ph.D., Research Scientist at Colgate-Palmolive
- Siegfried Weisenburger, Ph.D., DSM R&D Performance Team Lead & Technology Development Engineer at Lumicks
- Maxim Molodtsov, Ph.D., Prof. and Group Leader, University College London, Francis Crick Institute
- Friederike Schlumm, Ph.D., IMP in Vienna, Austria
- Nathan Earnest, BSc.
- Oliver Skocek, MSc.
- Sascha Agne, Ph.D., postdoc at the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light, Erlangen, Germany
- Dr. Minggui Chen, postdoc in Winrich Freiwald’s lab at the Rockefeller University
- Olav Olsen, Ph.D., Director at Regeneron Pharmaceuticals
- Ren Zhicheng, BSc.
- Michael Taylor, Ph.D., postdoc at The University of Queensland
- Christoph Goetz, Ph.D., COO at Image Biopsy Lab
- Robert Prevedel, Ph.D., group leader at EMBL in Heidelberg, Germany
- Alejandro J. Pernía-Andrade, Ph.D.
- Lukas Weilguny, BSc., The University of Vienna
- Johannes Leitner, BSc., Technical University of Vienna
- David Cisneros, Ph.D., IMP in Vienna, Austria
- Martin Frank, Dipl. Ing., Technical University of Vienna
- Magdalena Helmreich, Dipl. Ing., Lohmann & Rauscher GmbH
- Stephanie Walcher, BSc.
- Jonathan Tinsley, MSc., Ph.D., Lecturer at University of Liverpool
- Maximilian Hoffmann, MSc., Ph.D. student at Benjamin Judkewitz’ lab at Charité / Humboldt University
- Peter Rupprecht, MSc., Ph.D. student at FMI in Basel, Switzerland
- David Wartman, MSc., Ph.D. student at The University of California, Berkeley
- Aimee Gunther, BSc., Ph.D. student at Thomas Jennewein’s lab at the University of Waterloo
- Ugur Sezer, BSc., Ph.D. student at Markus Arndt’s lab at the University of Vienna
- Elie Fink, MSc., Ph.D. student at Matthieu Louis’ lab at the Center for Genomic Regulation
- Moritz Numrich, MSc.
- Michael Wong, BSc., Ph.D. student at the Baylor College of Medicine
- Philip Schmiedhofer, BSc.
- Antonio Orgaz, BSc.
- Marie Synakiewicz, MSc.