SynCell-nExUs Supervisors (Call I)

The SynCell‑nExUs covers four key research themes: division and replication, metabolism and energy, information processing and evolution, and enabling technologies.

Below you will find further information about the researchers and their laboratories taking part in the programme.

All researchers listed below are taking part in Open Call I (31st October - 31st December 2026).

You can use the grey buttons to filter the list according to the research area that interests you.

Division and Replication
Metabolism & Energy
Information Processing & Evolution
Enabling Technologies
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Division & Replication

Anđela Šarić

Institute of Science and Technology Austria (ISTA), Klosterneuburg, Austria
Division & Replication
Enabling Technologies
Metabolism & Energy

Andreas Bausch

Technische Universität München (TUM)/ Center for Functional Protein Assemblies, Munich, Germany
Information Processing & Evolution
Metabolism & Energy

Bert Poolman

University of Groningen (Department of Biochemistry), Netherlands
Division & Replication
Enabling Technologies
Information Processing & Evolution

Cees Dekker

Delft University of Technology, Netherlands
Enabling Technologies

César Rodriguez-Emmenegger

Institute for Bioengineering of Catalonia (IBEC) / Catalan Institution for Research and Advanced Studies (ICREA), Spain
Division & Replication

Charlotte Aumeier

University of Geneva, Biochemistry Department, Switzerland
Enabling Technologies
Information Processing & Evolution

Christophe Danelon

Toulouse Biotechnology Institute, INSA-TBI, France
Metabolism & Energy

Dirk Slotboom

University of Groningen, the Netherlands
Enabling Technologies
Information Processing & Evolution

Dora Tang

Saarland University, Germany
Division & Replication
Information Processing & Evolution

Erwin Frey

Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (LMU), Munich, Germany
Enabling Technologies

Francesco Ricci

Department of Chemistry, University of Rome Tor Vergata, Italy
Enabling Technologies

Frauke Gräter

Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research, Germany
Division & Replication
Information Processing & Evolution
Metabolism & Energy

Germán Rivas Caballero and James Francis Pelletier

Spanish National Research Council (CSIC), Spain
Division & Replication
Information Processing & Evolution

Gijsje Koenderink

Bionanoscience Department, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands
Enabling Technologies
Information Processing & Evolution

Henrike Niederholtmeyer

Technical University of Munich, Germany
Enabling Technologies

Irene Otero-Muras & Ángel Goñi-Moreno

CSIC-Agencia Estatal Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (Spanish National Research Council), Madrid, Spain
Information Processing & Evolution
Metabolism & Energy

Iván López Montero

Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain
Enabling Technologies

Javier Montenegro

Center for Research in Biological Chemistry and Molecular Materials (CiQUS), Universidade de Santiago de Compostela (USC), Spain
Enabling Technologies
Metabolism & Energy

Jean-Christophe Baret

CNRS, Univ. Bordeaux, Centre de Recherche Paul Pascal, France
Information Processing & Evolution

Julian Thiele

Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg, Institute of Chemistry, Germany
Enabling Technologies

Katharina Landfester

Max Planck Insitute for Polymer Research, Mainz, Germany
Enabling Technologies

Kerstin Göpfrich

Heidelberg University, Germany
Division & Replication
Enabling Technologies
Information Processing & Evolution

Laurent Blanchoin and Manuel Théry

Cytomorpholab (CNRS/CEA/ESPCI), France
Information Processing & Evolution

Lea-Laetitia Pontani

Sorbonne Université, Paris, France
Information Processing & Evolution

Liedewij Laan

Technical University of Delft, Netherlands
Division & Replication

Marileen Dogterom

Technical University of Delft, Delft, the Netherlands
Information Processing & Evolution

Martin Loose

Institute of Science and Technology Austria, Klosterneuburg, Austria
Division & Replication
Enabling Technologies
Information Processing & Evolution
Metabolism & Energy

Petra Schwille

Max Planck Institute, Germany
Division & Replication
Enabling Technologies
Information Processing & Evolution
Metabolism & Energy

Pierangelo Gobbo

University of Trieste, Italy
Division & Replication
Enabling Technologies
Information Processing & Evolution
Metabolism & Energy

Ramin Golestanian

Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization, Göttingen, Germany
Enabling Technologies

Roman Jerala

Department of Synthetic Biology and Immunology, National Institute of Chemistry, Ljubljana, Slovenia
Information Processing & Evolution

Seraphine Wegner

University of Münster, Münster, Germany
Division & Replication

Siewert-Jan Marrink

University of Groningen, Groningen, Netherlands
Information Processing & Evolution

Tanja Weil

Max-Planck-Institute for Polymer Research, Mainz, Germany
Division & Replication

Timon Idema

Technical University of Delft, Delft, the Netherlands
Enabling Technologies
Metabolism & Energy

Tobias Erb

Max Planck Institute for Terrestrial Microbiology, Marburg, Germany
Information Processing & Evolution

Wilhelm Huck

Radboud University, Nijmegen, the Netherlands