Since December last year, the University Executive Board has appointed 5 new TUD Young Investigators to the Faculties of Physics, Chemistry/Food Chemistry and Computer Science.

Dr. Franziska Lissel is a Liebig Fellow of the German Chemical Industry Association (VCI) and has been an independent junior research group leader at the Leibniz Institute for Polymer Research (IPF) since March 2017.
After completing her doctorate at ETH Zurich in 2014, she moved to Stanford University as a postdoctoral fellow. Previously, she studied biology and chemistry at the University of Bremen.

Since March 2018, physicist Dr. Katerina Falk has been researching the inner life of planets and stars at Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf (HZDR).
After completing her doctorate in atomic and laser physics at Oxford University, Dr. Falk began her research at the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico (USA). Three years ago, she moved to Prague to help set up the Beamline ELI.

Dr. Abhinav Sharma has been an independent junior research group leader at the Leibniz Institute for Polymer Research (IPF) since May 2017.
After receiving his PhD in Theoretical Physics from Eindhoven University of Technology in 2011, he spent several years as a postdoc in Amsterdam at the Vrije Universiteit, the University of Göttingen and the University of Fribourg in Switzerland.

Dr. Florian Jug studied Computer Science at the Technical University of Munich and received his doctorate in Computational Neuroscience at the ETH Zurich. After a short period as a postdoctoral fellow at ETH Zurich, he moved to Dresden, where he conducted research at the Max Planck Institute for Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics (MPI-CBG) in the Gene Myers laboratory. Since March 2017, Dr. Jug has been one of four independent junior research group leaders at the Center for Systems Biology Dresden (CSBD). He is investigating new methods in bioimage informatics.

Also at the Center for Systems Biology Dresden (CSBD), Dr.-Ing. Christoph Zechner has been researching biochemical networks since 2017 as an independent junior research group leader.
After studying telematics at the Technical University of Graz, he received his doctorate at the ETH Zurich and subsequently worked as a postdoc in the Khammash Lab, where he dealt with the research area "Design and Implementation of Noise-cancelling Synthetic Circuits".