The Team
Prof. Dr. Franziska Thomas
09/2025-now
10/2019-08/2025
06/2015-09/2019
11/2010-05/2015
11/2004-04/2010
10/1999-09/2004
Full Professor, Heidelberg University
Junior Professor, Heidelberg University
Junior Group Leader, University of Göttingen
Postdoc, University of Bristol
Doctoral Student, Humboldt-University Berlin
Diploma Student, Humboldt-University Berlin
Thomas Heim
PhD Student
thomas.heim@oci.uni-heidelberg.de
Phone: +49 6221 54 6231
Office: INF 272, 02.002A
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Thomas works on the design of self assembling peptides for material and drug delivery applications.
Jonas Huber
PhD Student
jonas.huber@oci.uni-heidelberg.de
Phone: +49 6221 54 6231
Office: INF 272, 02.002A
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Jonas designs next-gen carbohydrate binding peptides for cellular applications.
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Agi Kishore
PhD Student
agi.kishore@mtl.maxplanckschools.de
Phone: +49 6221 54 6230
Office: INF 272, 02.001A
Joint project with the Comba Lab
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Agi investigates applications of metal binding peptides for differential sensing.
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Antonio Páez Pilz
PhD Student
antonio.paez@oci.uni-heidelberg.de
Phone: +49 6221 54 6231
Office: INF 272, 02.002A
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Antonio designs catalytically active metal binding peptides.​​​
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Jennifer Zilke
PhD Student
jennifer.zilke@oci.uni-heidelberg.de
Phone: +49 6221 54 6231
Office: INF 272, 02.002A
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Jenny investigates nucleotide binding peptides in the context of biocatalysis.
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Niklas Schwegler
PhD Student
niklas.schwegler@oci.uni-heidelberg.de
Phone: +49 6221 54 6231
Office: INF 272, 02.002A
Joint project with the Blasco Lab
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Niklas develops functional peptides for 3D printed biomaterials.
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Chiara Keil
PhD Student
chiara.keil@iwr.uni-heidelberg.de
Phone: +49 6221 54 6231
Office: INF 272, 02.002A
Joint project with the Gräter Lab
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Chiara investigates structural and functional aspects of collagen-mimetic peptides and materials.​
Chandan Reddy
PhD Student
chandan.reddy@mtl.maxplanckschools.de
Phone: +49 6221 54 6231
Office: INF 272, 02.002A
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Chandan designs de novo protein scaffolds to host new-to-nature catalytic reactivities.​​
Agon Kokollari
PhD Student
agon.kokollari@stud.uni-heidelberg.de
Phone: +49 6221 54 6230
Office: INF 272, 02.001A
Joint project with the Klein Lab​​​​​​
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Agon optimizes methodological aspects of late-stage derivatization of peptides.​​
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Markus Heiduk
PhD Student
markus.heiduk@stud.uni-heidelberg.de
Phone: +49 6221 54 6231
Office: INF 272, 02.002A
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Markus engineers peptide therapeutics with a hybrid computational/experimental approach.
Marius Werner
PhD Student
marius.werner@uni-heidelberg.de
Phone: +49 6221 54 6231
Office: INF 272, 02.002A
Joint project with the Klein Lab
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Marius works on chemical late-stage peptide derivatization for therapeutic applications.​
Marcos R. Conde-González
PhD Student
Phone: +49 6221 54 6230
Office: INF 272, 02.001A
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Marcos develops catalytically active peptides based on de novo designed folding architectures.
Julian Brinkhofer
PhD Student
julian.brinkhofer@oci.uni-heidelberg.de
Phone: +49 6221 54 6231
Office: INF 272, 02.002A
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Julian designs catalytic metallo-miniproteins with artificial cofactors introduced by late-stage diversification.
Raphaela Küppers
PhD Student
Phone: +49 6221 54 6230
Office: INF 272, 02.001A
Joint project with the Sarott Lab​
Raphaela works on peptide binders for the promotion of proximity induced protein-protein interactions.
Leon Hammermüller
Master Thesis Student
Phone: +49 6221 54 6231
Office: INF 272, 02.002A
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Leon develops novel approaches to late-stage peptide modifications for click chemistry.