Team of the Institute of Human Genetics
Director

Univ.-Prof. Dr. Juliane Winkelmann
Director of the Institute of Human Genetics |
Human Geneticist |
Neurologist

Marilena Pinto
Personal assistance to the director
Consultants

PD Dr. Anne Quante, MPH
Deputy Director |
Senior Consultant | Human Geneticist

Dr. Ulrich Schatz
Consultant |
Human Geneticist

Dr. Matias Wagner
Consultant |
Human Geneticist |
Group leader Nucleic acid therapies

PD Dr. Dominik Westphal
Senior physician in cardiogenetics |
Human Geneticist | Group leader Cardiogenetics

PD Dr. Michael Zech
Consultant |
Human Geneticist | Neurologist | Group leader Genomics Plus
Physicians

Dr. Susann Badmann
Physician

Dr. Melanie Brugger
Human Geneticist

Dr. Theresa Brunet
Human Geneticist

Dr. Philip Harrer, PhD
Physician

Maureen Jacob
Physician
Dr. Reka Kovacs-Nagy
Physician

Dr. Ava Oberlack
Physician

Dr. Michael Raum
Physician

Dott. mag. Valerio Rhodio
Physician

Dr. Antonia Stehr
Physician

Dr. Nathalie Schandra
Neurologist, RLS outpatient clinic at Neuro-Kopf-Zentrum
Cytogenetics

Dr. Sabine Langer-Freitag
Head Cytogenetics

Maria Dinkel
Technical assistant
Gabriele Lederer
Technical assistant

Iwona Sikora
Technical assistant
Doris Sollacher
Technical assistant

Gabriele Strassner
Technical assistant
Molecular genetics laboratory

Dr. Elisabeth Graf
Head molecular genetics laboratory

Katharina Mayerhanser, M.Sc.
Genetic Counseler, Lead case and sample management
Nicola Plathner
Case and sample management

Sandy Lösecke
Technical assistant
Katharina Eyring
Technical assistant
Bioinformatics

Dr. Christian Mertes
Head of Bioinformatics and IT

Mohsen Shakibafar
Postdoc

Martin Pavlov
PhD student
Dr. Erik Tilch
Postdoc

Jochen Blesch
Research assistant

Alice Saparov
PhD student, research group Michael Zech
Administration
Nivedita Arora
Office

Marilena Pinto
Personal assistance to the director

Dr. Simone Schuffenhauer
Biologist
Quality management

Ann-Kathrin Jaroszynski
Quality management officer
Research

Dr. Holger Prokisch
Working group leader, mitochondriopathies
Prof. Dr. Thomas Meitinger
Emeritus, project lead Bavarian Genomes
apl. Prof. Dr. Bertram Müller-Myhsok
Associate Professor Max Planck Institute

Irene Ferro
PhD student, research group Matias Wagner

Ivana Dzinovic
PhD student, research group Michael Zech

Ugo Sorrentino
PhD student, research group Michael Zech

Alice Saparov
PhD student, research group Michael Zech