The Exelixis Lab

group leader 

 

Alexandros (Alexis) Stamatakis (left: tough day doing field work in Crete; middle fighting the heat in Valencia; right very thirsty in latin america)

postdocs



Solon P. Pissis (PhD thesis in Computer Science, King's college London) joined The Exelixis Lab in November 2011 as PostDoc



Thomas Flouri (about to defend his PhD in computer science in Prague soon) joined us in May 2012

cluster admin



Christian Goll (PhD in Physics, University of Erlangen-Nürnberg) joined the IT part of the group in September 2010. When he is not busy with cluster issues he works with us on porting RAxML to smartphones, playing with ARM processors, and AVX instructions.

phd students



Fernando Izquierdo (MSc Bioinformatics, University of Hamburg) started working on his PhD project in January 2010.



Andre Aberer (MSc Bioinformatics) started working on his PhD project in April 2011.



Kassian Kobert (MSc Mathematics, University of Kaiserslautern) started working on his PhD project in October 2011.



Jiajie Zhang (BSc Biology, BSc Computer Science) started working with us in July 2012.



Alexey Kozlov (MSc Computer Science, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology) will start working with us in June 2013.


visiting phd students

None at present.

master students



Sebas Mendez (MsC Computer Science, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology) started working with us in April 2013 as student programmer (HiWi).

lab alumni

postdocs

  • Stephen A. Smith (PhD, Evolutionary Biology, Yale) worked as a shared PostDoc in the Exelixis Lab and the Dunn Lab  at Brown University from mid-2010 to the end of 2011. Stpehen is now an assistant professor at the university of michigan.
  • Pavlos Pavlidis (Dr. rer. nat, LMU Munich) worked as a PostDoc with us from February 2011 to december 2012. He went back to Crete to do a second PostDoc at IMBB since he had missed our beautiful island too much for too many years.

phd students

  • Michael Ott (Dr. rer. nat., TU Munich) has been co-supervised by Prof. Bode (chair of Computer Architectures and Computer Organization) and me and has succesfully defended his PhD thesis in October 2010. He did a PostDoc in Australia until fall 2011 with Lars Jermiin at CSIRO. He returned to Munich and is now working as staff scientist at the Munich supercomputing center.
  • Nikos Alachiotis (Dr. rer. nat, TU Munich) worked as PhD student in our group from February 2009 to December 2012. He received his PhD in November 2012 and has now went back to Greece to do his military service before continuing his scientific career.
  • Simon Berger (Dr. ing., Karlsruhe Institute of Technology) worked as PhD student in our group from January 2009 to January 2013. He received his PhD  in January 2013 and decided to start working in the automotive software industry in Munich as of February 2013.

visiting phd students

  • Paschalia Kapli, a PhD student from the Biology department at the University of Crete spent 6 months with us from September 2012 to March 2013
  • Diego Darriba, a PhD student from the University of Vigo at david Posada's lab spent three months working with us in fall 2012
  • Dilrini De Silva, a PhD student from Queens College London spent three months working with us in spring 2012
  • William Pearse (MSc Biology), a PhD student from Imperial College London spent three months with us in fall 2011
  • Jiajie Zhang (BSc Biology, BSc Computer Science) was a visiting PhD student from the University of Lübeck and spent with 6 months with us in 2011

master and bachelor students

  • Jörg Hauser (MSc Computer Science, Master's thesis, Heidelberg University) is now working at a software company in Munich
  • Denis Krompaß (MSc Bioinformatics, TUM/LMU, project work) is now doing a PhD in Munich
  • Pinar Özbay (MSc Computational Science and Engineering, TUM, project work)
  • Harald Kraft (with Prof. Bungartz and Prof. Kranzlmueller; Diploma student in Computer Science, LMU Munich, project work)
  • Jan Stutzki (with Prof. Bungartz and Prof. Kranzlmueller; Diploma student in Computer Science, LMU Munich, project work)
  • Roland Wittman (with Prof. Bungartz; BSc Computer Science, TUM, project work)
  • Valeriy Khakhutskyy (with Prof. Bungartz; Bachelor Thesis, Technical University of Munich)
  • Szymon Seliga (Student Programmer, Technical University of Munich)
  • Zsolt Komornik (Student Programmer, Technical University of Munich)
  • Nikos Alachiotis (with Prof. Dollas, Diploma Thesis, Technical University of Chania)
  • Masoud Alipur (Master Thesis, Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne)
  • Margarida Faria (Project Work, Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne)
  • Maria Charalambous (with Prof. Trancoso, Master Thesis, University of Cyprus) 
  • Michael Ott (Diploma Thesis, Technical University of Munich)
  • Georg Hoesch (Diploma Thesis, Technical University of Munich)
  • Bert van Heukelom (Diploma Thesis, Technical University of Munich)
  • Christoph Lauter (Project Work, Technical University of Munich)
  • Michael Ott (Project Work, Technical University of Munich)
  • Cornel Babel (Project Work, Technical University of Munich)