Research Group

Back row (from left to right):
Arun Pal, Anupam Sarkar, Mohammad Saym, Ulrich Kortz, Friedrich Matteo Lüderitz, Mahmoud Elcheikh Mahmoud

Front row (from left to right):
Vinaya Siby, Sahar Khandan, Devanshi Shukla, Pooja Kulashri, Misaki Maeda, Lakita Khidtta, Mojesi Monica Rampai, Hwanhui An

Very Front:
Tica

Current Members

Prof. Dr. Ulrich KortzGroup LeaderGermany
Dr. Bassem BassilAdjunct ProfessorGermany
Dr. Arun PalPost-Doctoral FellowIndia
Dr. Anupam SarkarPost-Doctoral FellowIndia
Dr. Vinaya SibyPost-Doctoral FellowIndia
Sahar KhandanPh.D. StudentIran
Lakita KhidttaPh.D. StudentIndia
Pooja KulashriPh.D. StudentIndia
Mahmoud Elcheikh Mahmoud Ph.D. StudentLebanon
Mojesi Monica RampaiPh.D. StudentSouth Africa
Devanshi ShuklaPh.D. StudentIndia
Aldiyar AlkanovUndergraduate StudentKazakhstan
Hiam AlkhabbazUndergraduate StudentSyria
Hwanhui AnUndergraduate StudentSouth Korea
Friedrich Matteo LüderitzUndergraduate StudentGermany
Mohammad SaymUndergraduate StudentPakistan
Silvestrs Austris Zemnickis Undergraduate StudentLatvia

Former Members

Ph.D. Students and Post-Doctoral Fellows

Dr. Ghada Al-KadamanyPh.D. Student; Post-Doctoral FellowLebanon
Dr. Rami Al-OweiniPh.D. Student; Post-Doctoral FellowLebanon
Dr. Abhishek BanerjeePh.D. Student; Post-Doctoral FellowIndia
Dr. Maria Barsukova-StuckartPh.D. Student; Post-Doctoral FellowRussia
Dr. Ali HaiderPh.D. Student; Post-Doctoral FellowPakistan
Dr. Masooma IbrahimPh.D. Student; Post-Doctoral FellowPakistan
Dr. Nadeen NsouliPh.D. Student; Post-Doctoral FellowLebanon
Dr. Yixian XiangPh.D. Student; Post-Doctoral FellowChina

Post-Doctoral Fellows

Dr. Saurav BhattacharyaPost-Doctoral FellowIndia
Dr. Li-Hua BiPost-Doctoral FellowChina
Dr. Elena ChubarovaPost-Doctoral FellowRussia
Dr. Daipayan DuttaPost-Doctoral FellowIndia
Dr. Joydeb GouraPost-Doctoral FellowIndia
Dr. Natalya IzarovaPost-Doctoral FellowRussia
Dr. Sachin JoshiPost-Doctoral FellowIndia
Dr. Balamurugan KandasamyPost-Doctoral FellowIndia
Dr. Zhengguo LinPost-Doctoral FellowChina
Dr. Paulami MannaPost-Doctoral FellowIndia
Dr. Juan Francisco Miñambres-RedondoPost-Doctoral FellowSpain
Dr. Santiago ReinosoPost-Doctoral FellowSpain
Dr. Debasmita SardarPost-Doctoral FellowIndia

Ph.D. Students

Wassim W. AyassPh.D. StudentLebanon
Firasat HussainPh.D. StudentIndia
Amal IsmailPh.D. StudentEgypt
Rehan LatafatPh.D. StudentPakistan
Tian MaPh.D. StudentChina
Xiang MaPh.D. StudentChina
Sib Sankar MalPh.D. StudentIndia
Ali MougharbelPh.D. Student/Technical AssistantLebanon
Nickolet NcubePh.D. StudentZimbabwe
Luis Piedra-GarzaPh.D. StudentIndia 
Hafiz M. QasimPh.D. StudentPakistan
Ananthu RajanPh.D. StudentIndia
Awatef SaadPh.D. StudentEgypt
Anusree SundarPh.D. Student/Technical AssistantIndia 
Kai-Yao WangPh.D. StudentChina
Xiaolin XingPh.D. StudentChina
Peng YangPh.D. StudentChina
Jiayao ZhangPh.D. StudentChina

M.Sc. Students

Imtiaz BegumM.Sc. StudentPakistan
Masoud Farhadi KhouzaniM.Sc. StudentIran
Aleksandar KondinskiM.Sc. StudentMacedonia
Sivasankar KoppalaM.Sc. StudentIndia
Farah RaadM.Sc. StudentLebanon
Isabella RömerM.Sc. StudentVenezuela
Inamullah Hakeem SaidM.Sc. StudentAfghanistan
Michael SanguinetiM.Sc. StudentUSA
Jan SchusterM.Sc. StudentGermany
Dipendra ShastriM.Sc. StudentIndia
Ghada YassinM.Sc. StudentLebanon

Crystallographer

Dr. Michael DickmanCrystallographer

Lab Assisants

Dr. Andrea PatzerLab AssistantGermany
Markus ReickeLab AssistantGermany
Andreas SuchoparLab AssistantGermany
Bernd von der KammerLab AssistantGermany

Visiting Scientists

Prof. Uk LeeVisiting ScientistSouth-Korea
Prof. Xuemei LiuVisiting ScientistChina
Prof. Zia-ur-RehmanVisiting ScientistPakistan
Prof. Xinfang WangVisiting ScientistChina
Dr. Mauro CarraroVisiting ScientistItaly
Dr. Diana FernandesVisiting ScientistPortugal
Dr. Matthew GottVisiting ScientistUSA
Dr. Irina KalininaVisiting ScientistRussia
Dr. Saritha NellutlaVisiting ScientistIndia
Dr. Elena VisserVisiting ScientistRussia

Visiting Ph.D. Students

Abou-Bakr Abdel-MonsefVisiting Ph.D. StudentEgypt
Saowapak ChoomwattanaVisiting Ph.D. StudentThailand
Marina DronovaVisiting Ph.D. StudentRussia
Claire JahierVisiting Ph.D. StudentFrance
Stef VanhaechtVisting Ph.D. studentBelgium

Visiting Students

Sally BovillVisiting StudentUK
Lu CuiVisiting StudentChina
Dilara Börte EmiroğluVisiting StudentTurkey
Yoshifumi IimuroVisiting StudentJapan
Rie IschidaVisiting StudentJapan
Elynor KamilVisiting StudentUK
Özge KoçerVisiting StudentTurkey
Thomas LonsdaleVisiting StudentUK
Karen MeadowsVisiting StudentUK
Sachie MoroiVisiting StudentJapan
Akie ShimamuraVisiting StudentJapan
Daisuke TsukumaVisiting StudentJapan
Eito YamanishiVisiting StudentJapan

Undergraduate Students

Erda AkshijaUndergraduate StudentAlbania
Beste TripanUndergraduate StudentTurkey
Arnav Avinash GaikwadUndergraduate StudentIndia
Aruzhan KaliyevaUndergraduate StudentKazakhstan
Muhammad Usman ArainUndergraduate StudentPakistan
Kwabena AcquayeUndergraduate StudentGhana
Rizul GuptaUndergraduate StudentIndia
Nikol KripaUndergraduate StudentAlbania
Nikhil PandeyUndergraduate StudentNepal
Hazim SalimUndergraduate StudentPakistan
Tina AndonovskaUndergraduate StudentMacedonia
Damin KimUndergraduate StudentKorea
Ji-o KimUndergraduate StudentKorea
Alisher KuanyshUndergraduate StudentKazakhstan
Runxuan MaUndergraduate StudentChina
Aigerim AbishevaUndergraduate StudentKazakhstan
Sihana AhmediUndergraduate StudentKosovo
Alyssa AdcockUndergraduate StudentUSA
Radu AntonUndergraduate StudentRomania
Vidushi Galwadu ArachchigeUndergraduate StudentSri Lanka
Marie AsanoUndergraduate StudentJapan
Dianna BautistaUndergraduate StudentUSA
Obida BawadkjiUndergraduate StudentSyria
Aukse BraziunaiteUndergraduate StudentLithuania
Akina CareyUndergraduate StudentUSA
Inga DammannUndergraduate StudentGermany
Welbeck DanquahUndergraduate StudentGhana
Letisa DerveniUndergraduate StudentAlbania
Shibani de SilvaUndergraduate StudentSri Lanka
Lara DelevicUndergraduate StudentSerbia
Dragos DeneanuUndergraduate StudentRomania
Alexandra DumitriuUndergraduate StudentRomania
Qianyu FengUndergraduate StudentChina
Jaafer FutuwiUndergraduate StudentEthiopia
Bimersha GautamUndergraduate StudentNepal
Paul HackettUndergraduate StudentUSA
Peter HaferlUndergraduate StudentUSA
Sara HakaUndergraduate StudentAlbania
Inga HelgadottirUndergraduate StudentIceland
Mellina HurrymannUndergraduate StudentMauritius
Jaime HurtadoUndergraduate StudentColombia
Vera JanowskiUndergraduate StudentGermany
Nouria Jantz-NaeemUndergraduate StudentGermany
Joseph KiprotichUndergraduate StudentKenya
Cornelius KlöckUndergraduate StudentGermany
Veronika KottischUndergraduate StudentGermany
Marius MateiUndergraduate StudentRomania
Fitsumbirhan MehariUndergraduate StudentEthiopia
Borislav MilevUndergraduate StudentBulgaria
Sofiya MityushkinaUndergraduate StudentRussia
Nickolet NcubeUndergraduate StudentZimbabwe
Fiona NkalaUndergraduate StudentZimbabwe
Juliane ObersteinUndergraduate StudentUSA
Thupten PaldenUndergraduate StudentChina
Jaclyn ParrisUndergraduate StudentUSA
Makar PobiyakhoUndergraduate StudentKazakhstan
Antonia PraetoriusUndergraduate StudentGermany
Urs RauwaldUndergraduate StudentGermany
Nils RedekerUndergraduate StudentGermany
Amna RubabUndergraduate StudentPakistan
Lisa RullikUndergraduate StudentGermany
Giannina SchaeferUndergraduate StudentGermany
Sebastian SchmackUndergraduate StudentGermany
Jan SchusterUndergraduate StudentGermany
Anqi ShenUndergraduate StudentChina
Rachelle SmithUndergraduate StudentUSA
Tina SovdatUndergraduate StudentSlovenia
Jovana SpalevicUndergraduate StudentSerbia
Prabal SubediUndergraduate StudentNepal
Tim SudmeierUndergraduate StudentGermany
Diarra ThiamUndergraduate StudentSenegal
Lisa TichagwaUndergraduate StudentZimbabwe
Anca TiganUndergraduate StudentRomania
Anh Nguyen VietUndergraduate StudentVietnam
Franscesco VivanUndergraduate StudentItaly
Julian VollUndergraduate StudentGermany
Hongying WuUndergraduate StudentChina
Tsedenia ZewdieUndergraduate StudentEthiopia
Maria ZhelyazkovaUndergraduate StudentBulgaria
Alexandra ZulaicaUndergraduate StudentVenezuela