Team
Our team consists of several technicians, post-docs and PhD students. You would find a friendly, well-connected and highly international environment, and a firm commitment to good scientific practice, good supervision and professional development. As we are always seeking to recruit additional excellent and enthusiastic researchers, we welcome applications with the usual documents in case you are interested in joining us.
Prof. Alexander Weber
W3/Full Professor and Head of the Department of Innate Immunity
+49 (0)7071 29-87623
Dr. Bettina Danker
PA/Scientific Manager
bettina.danker@uni-tuebingen.de
Caroline Schönfeld
Technician
Dr. Xiao Liu
Postdoc
"My main research focus is to decipher which cell death pathway Staphylococcus aureus employs to exit from within macrophages, which are the inducing factors, and what is the role of inflammasomes in this whole process."
Dr. Timmy Richardo
Postdoc
"I began my postdoctoral position in Weber lab in December 2023 after completing my doctoral degree in Infection Biology at Hannover Medical School. My project focuses on the perception of chitin by mammalian pattern recognition receptors."
András Szolek
Bioinformatician
"As the team's bioinformatician, I handle the computational analysis of the diverse molecular data produced by our lab, alongside clinical data obtained through our collaborations with the University Hospital of Tübingen."
BaherZalat
PhD student
"Following my Master's in Molecular Life Sciences, with a focus on Immunology and a thesis on NK cell evolution at Georg-August-University Göttingen, I embarked on my PhD in the Weber lab starting September 2023. My research focuses on understanding the roles of platelets, neutrophils, and Platelet-Neutrophil Complexes (PNC) in psoriasis."