The Team


Dr. Frederike Beyer
BSc Chemistry at RUB (2019)
MSc Chemistry at RUB (2021)
Dr. rer. nat at RUB (2025)

Deborah Drost
BSc Chemistry at RUB (2021) MSc Chemistry at RUB (2023)

Malte Feßner
BSc Chemistry at RUB (2021) MSc Chemistry at RUB (2023)

Prof. Dr. Christian Merten

Sven Reese
BSc Chemistry at RUB (2020)
MSc Chemistry at RUB (2022)

Alcides Simao
BSc in Chemistry at Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal (2005)
MSc in Chemistry at Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal (2008)
PhD in Chemistry at Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal (2020)
Postdoc at DESY, Hamburg (2021/2022)

Veronika Stoianova
BSc in Chemistry at Karazin Kharkiv National University, Ukraine (2022) // MSc in Chemistry at RUB 2025 PhD student associated with the RTG 2376 working on encapsulation studies and chiral azacryptands

Dilber Tan
BSc Chemistry at TU Dortmund (2020)
MSc Chemistry at TU Dortmund (2022)

Olaf & R2D2
Wanna know what Olaf and R2D2 are doing? Just visit our lab and meet them!
Alumni
Postdocs
- Dr. Tim Steinke (01/2024-12/2024)
- Dr. Nora Kreienborg (04/2022-02/2023)
- Dr. Ernesto Santoro (03/2020-01/2023)
- Dr. Daniel P. Demarque (03/2019-02/2021)
- Dr. Corina H. Pollok (11/18-03/21)
PhD students
- Dr. Frederike Beyer (11/2021-07/2025)
- Dr. Elliot Tay (11/2020-11/2024)
- Dr. Corentin Grassin (10/2020 – 12/2023)
- Dr. Michael Kemper (03/2019 – 12/2022)
- Dr. Nora Kreienborg (04/2018 – 03/2022; MSc 2018; BSc 2015)
- Dr. Tino Golub (04/2018 – 05/2022; MSc 2018)
- Dr. Luisa Weirich (10/2018 – 03/2022; MSc. 2018)
- Dr. Kevin Scholten (03/2019/-07/2022; MSc 2019)
- Dr. Karoline Bünnemann (04/2016-11/2019; M.Sc. 2016)
- Dr. Corina H. Pollok (11/2014-10/2018)
Master
- 2023: Malte Feßner
- 2023: Deborah Drost
- 2022: Sven Reese
- 2022: Simon Vortmann
- 2019: Kevon Scholten
- 2018: Luisa Weirich
- 2018: Tino Golub
- 2018: Nora Kreienborg
- 2016: Karoline Bünnemann
- 2016: Tobias Osowski (Master thesis student)
Bachelor
- Summer 2025: Paula Mundry
Summer 2025: Daniel Sommer - Summer 2024: Anojen Arunthavarasa
- Winter 2024/25: Matteo Maiweg
- Summer 2021: Malte Feßner
- Summer 2019: Katharina Blanke
- Summer 2019: Philip Woite
- Summer 2018: Jan Philip Nau
- Summer 2017: Melinda Nolten
- Summer 2016: N. Hendrik Mohrbach
- Summer 2016: Jana-Alina Zur
- Summer 2015: Nora Kreienborg
- Summer 2014: Simon Nikutta
Guests
- Feb-Apr & Sep-Nov 2024: Dr. Frantisek Kralik (University of Chemistry and Technology, Prague, CZ)
- May-Oct 2018: Juliana Magalhães de Oliveira (visiting Master student from Universidade Federal de São Carlos, Brazil)
- Jun-Nov 2017: Zakia Afzal (visiting PhD student from Allama Iqbal Open University, Islamabad, Pakistan)
- Feb-Jun 2017: Daniel P. Demarque (visiting PhD student from University of Sao Paulo, Ribeirao Preto, Brazil)
- Summer 2017: Tom Vermeyen (Erasmus student from Belgium)
- Summer 2015: Jonathan Bogaerts (Erasmus student from Belgium)








