Team

Members
Daniel Petras
Principal Investigator

Daniel started the Functional Metabolomics Lab in 2021. Before, he worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the University of California San Diego and did his PhD in biochemistry at the Technical University Berlin. Before this, Daniel studied biotechnology at the University of Applied Science in Darmstadt and at the Polytechnic University of Valencia.
Abzer Pakkir Mohamed Shah
PhD Student

Abzer joined the group for her PhD studies in 2022. Abzer holds a bachelor's degree in Biomedical Engineering from the Dhanalakshmi Srinivasan Engineering College and a Master's degree in Medical Photonics from the Friedrich Schiller University Jena.
Karoline Steuer-Lodd
Master's Student

Karo joined the group as master student in 2022. She studies microbiology in her master's prgram at the University of Tuebingen and holds a bachelor's degree in molecular medicine from the University of Ulm.
Tilman Schramm
Master's Student

Tilman joined the group as a joint master student between us and the Kappler Lab in 2022. He holds a bachelor’s degree in Biology from the University of Tuebingen, where he currently also studies microbiology for his master's.
Christian Geibel
Postdoctoral Researcher

Christian joined the group in 2023 as a postdoctoral researcher. He received his licence as pharmacist in 2018 and Master (M. Sc.) in Pharmaceutical Sciences and Technologies in 2019, before then doing a PhD in Analytical Chemistry at the University of Tuebingen.
Community
We are part of a larger team

The lab is actively engaged in multiple larger collaborations and consortia, including the Virtual Multi-Omics Lab (V-MOL), the GNPS computational mass spectrometry community.
Paolo Stincone
Postdoctoral Researcher (MSCA fellow)

Paolo joined the group in 2021 as a postdoctoral researcher. He reseived his PhD student in cellular and molecular biology from the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul. Before this, Paolo obtained his master's degree in biology from the University of La Laguna and the University of Palermo, where he also got his bachelor's degree in environmental science.
Stilianos Papadopoulos Lambidis
PhD Student (IMPRS fellow)

Stelio joined the group for his master project in 2022, and continues now his PhD studies jointly at the Ley Lab at the Max Planck Institute for Biology. Stilianos studied biochemistry at the University of Tübingen where he also obtained his bachelor degree before.
Sibgha Tayyab
PhD Student (DAAD fellow)

Sibgha joined the group as a PhD student in 2022. Sibgha holds a bachelor’s degree in Microbiology from the Hazara University and a Master’s degree in Biotechnology from the Quaid-i-Azam University.
Marcelo Navarro Díaz
Postdoctoral Researcher

Marcelo joined the group as a postdoctoral researcher in 2022 in a joint position with the Link Lab. He holds a bachelor’s and Master’s degree in Biotechnology from the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, where he is also did his PhD in microbial ecology.
Giovanni Vitale
Postdoctoral Researcher

Giovanni joined the group as a postdoctoral researcher in 2023. He holds a bachelor’s and Master’s degree in Chemistry from the University of Naples Federico II, he did his PhD in Natural Products Chemistry at the National Research Council of Italy, and worked two years as Postdoctoral Researcher at the Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn of Naples.
Alumni
Eunah Jeong
Visiting PhD Student (2023)

Kyo Bin Kang
Visiting Professor (2023)

Silvana Tapia Paniagua
Visiting Professor (2023)

Alicia Pérez Lorente
Vistiting PhD Student (2022)

Federico Muzio
Vistiting PhD Student (2022)

Huong Pham
Visiting PhD Student (2023)

Sofia Iliakopoulou
Visting PhD Student (2023)

Shane Farrel
Visting PhD Student (2022)

Albert Hernandez
Research Engineer (2021-2022)

Khoi-Si-Dan Le
(Bachelor Thesis 2022)
