We are an interdisciplinary and international team, working in the center of Berlin. We are passionate about understanding genetic variations, biomedical challenges, and how to transform data into clinically actionable results.
Head
- Prof. Dr. Dieter Beule
- Carola Herrmann (Team assistant, shared with labs of Kübler, Kircher, Scholl and Seelow)
Services Team (CUBI)
- Dr. Andranik Ivanov (Functional genomics, spatial transcriptomics)
- Dr. Clemens Messerschmidt (Systems engineering and administration)
- Dr. Eric Blanc (Cancer genomics, machine learning)
- Dr. January Weiner (Functional genomics, biostatistics, service coordination)
- Dr. Pamela Riemer (Scientific project coordination)
Research Team (The Beule Lab)
- Dr. Benedikt Obermayer-Wasserscheid (functional genomics, single cell analyses, CRC 1444)
- Dr. Divya Ratan Popli (cancer genomics, NCT)
- Dr. Federico Marotta (Software engineering, NCT)
- Mamata Gharti Magar (Cancer genomics, IntSim-Onko)
- Dr. Mathias Kuhring (Systems engineering, GHGA)
- Dr. Miha Milek (functional genomics, single cell, CRC 1588)
- Mikko Nieminen (Software engineering)
- Dr. Shuba Varshini Alampalli (microbial genomics, data stewardship, TRR 241 and FOR 2841)
- Dr. Thomas Sell (Systems engineering, project lead of the Genome Data Center Berlin, part of GenomDE Modellvorhaben).
PhD Students
- Aliki Grammatikaki in CompCancer graduate school
- Cédric Moris in TEP-CC Bruno und Helene Jöster Stiftung
- Erika Zuljan in CompCancer graduate school
- Fatemeh Habibolahi in CompCancer graduate school
- Jakub Liu in CompCancer graduate school
- Vinzenz May in DZKJ and CompCancer graduate school
Guests
Alumni
- Oliver Stolpe
- Dr. Nicolai von Kügelgen
- Tzu-Ting Wei
- Dr. Yoann Gloaguen - Post-Doc (moved on to Centogen AG)
- Dr. Patrick Pett - Post-Doc (moved on to the Teichmann lab at Wellcome Sanger Institute)
- Franziska Schumann - Bachelor student (became a Master student in the data science programm at HPI, Potsdam)
- Nico Borgsmüller - Master student (became a PhD student at ETH with Niko Beerenwinkel)
- Dr. Dermot Harnett - Post-Doc (moved on to Ohler lab at MDC-Berlin)
- Dr. Oliver Drechsel - Post-Doc (moved on to become staff Bioinformatician at Robert-Koch-Institute)
- Dr. Kajetan Bentele - Post-Doc (moved on to industry)
Last modified: Feb 4, 2026