​​PhD students who have graduated and their next position
Sally Cudmore - EMBL 1996 -Postdoc Tim Mitchison, UCSF, USA.
Sabine Röttger - EMBL 1999 - Moved into management consultancy, Germany.
Freddy Frischknecht - EMBL 1999 - Postdoc Robert Menard, Institut Pasteur, Paris, France.
Boyan Garvalov - EMBL 2002 - Postdoc Frank Bradke, MPI-Neurobiology, Martinsried
Markus Zettl - LRI 2004 - Postdoc, Matthew Freeman, MRC-LMB, Cambridge, UK
Niki Scaplehorn - LRI 2004 - Postdoc, Thomas Preat, CNRS-ESPCI, Paris, France
Ceri Edwards - LRI 2005 - Research Manager, Translational Research, Cancer Research UK
João Corderio - LRI 2008 - Postdoc, António Jacinto, University of Lisbon
Ina Weisswange - LRI 2008 - Postdoc, Joachim Wittbrodt, University of Heidelberg
Xing (Judy) Chen - LRI 2011 - Postdoc, Gareth Jones, King’s College London, UK
Charlotte Durkin - LRI 2012 - Postdoc, David Holden, Imperial College London, UK
Sara Donnelly - LRI 2012 - Postdoc, Louis Hodgson, Albert Einstein, New York.
Ashley Humphries - LRI 2013 - Postdoc, Marek Mlodzik, Mount Sinai, New York, USA
Xenia Snetkov - LRI 2015 - Postdoc, Clare Jolly, University College London, UK
Chiara Galloni - LRI 2016 - Postdoc, Georgia Mavria, Leeds University, UK
Julia Pfanzelter - Crick 2018 - Postdoc, Stephan Grill, Dresden MPI, Germany
Lesley Sheach - Clinical fellow 2020 - ST6 Obstetrics & Gynaecology, Barts Health NHS, UK
Davide Carra - Crick 2021 - Postdoc, Leonardo Morsut, USC, LA, USA
Amadeus Xu - Crick 2022 - Higher Scientific Officer, Andrew Tutt lab, Institute of Cancer Research, London
Stefanie Drymiotou - Clinical fellow 2024 - ST5 Obstetrics & Gynaecology, Barts Health NHS, UK
Shaina Huang - Crick 2024 - In vitro model Research Scientist at GSK, Stevenage, UK
Olivia Hill - Crick 2025 - Discovery Biology Scientist, Cora Biosciences, London, UK
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Postdocs and their next position
Violaine Moreau - Nov 1996-Aug 1999 - Assistant Professor with tenure, University of Bordeaux, France
Aspasia Ploubidou - July 1998-Sept 2003 - Group leader, FLI-Leibniz Institute for Age Research, Jena, Germany
Ferran Valderrama - Sept 2001-Mar 2006 - Senior Postdoc with Anne Ridley UCL/King’s College London, UK
Tim Newsome - Sept 2001-Sept 2006- Lecturer in Virology, University of Sydney, Australia
James Sutherland - Jan 2002-Jan 2005 - Principal Investigator, CIC bioGUNE, Bilbao, Spain
Antonio Postigo - Jan 2002-Jan 2007 - Senior Postdoc with Geoff Smith Imperial College London
Batiste Boëda - Mar 2003 -Mar 2008 - INSERM position with Sandrine Etienne-Manneville, Institut Pasteur, France
Mike Redd - Sept 2003-Sept 2005 - Research Associate, Huntsman Cancer Institute, University of Utah, USA
Yoshiki Arakawa - Jun 2005-May 2007 - Assistant Professor, Dept of Neurosurgery, Kyoto University, Japan
Morag Martin - Jun 2006-Apr 2010 - Research Strategy & Development Officer, University of Dundee, UK
Mark Dodding - Jan 2007-Jan 2011 - Group leader Wellcome Trust CDR Fellow, Kings College London
Naoko Kogata - Apr 2008-Sept 2009 - Research Assistant with Beatrice Howard, Institute of Cancer Research, UK
Amy Ramsden - Apr 2008-May 2011 - Associate Medical Writer with Stem Scientific, Lyndhurst, NJ, USA
Yutaka Handa - Nov 2008-Apr 2013 - Senior Research Scientist with Noriko Toyama-Sorimachi, Depart of Molecular Immunology and Inflammation Research Institute, National Center for Global Health and Medicine, Tokyo, Japan
Joseph Cockburn - Oct 2011-Sept 2014 - Lecturer in X-ray crystallography, Leeds University, UK
Jasmine Abella- Jan 2010-Apr 2015 - Senior Laboratory Research Scientist, Way Lab, Francis Crick Institute
David Barry - Nov 2010 -Oct 2016 - Senior Lab Research Scientist, (Image Analyst) Light Microscopy, Crick Institute Flavia Leite - Jan 2014-Jan 2019 - Head of Virus Services, IST, Vienna, Austria
Caitlin Tolbert - Aug 2014 -Aug 2019 - House Editor and Medical Writer at Niche Science & Technology Ltd, UK
Gabrielle Larocque - July 2020-July 2023 - Postdoc, Steve Royle lab, Warwick University, UK
Angika Basant- Apr 2017-Oct 2023 - Group leader, Wellcome Trust, Career Development Award, King’s College, UK LuYan Cao - Sept 2020-Oct 2024 - Independent CNRS Researcher, Institut Jacques Monod, Université Paris Cité, Miguel Hernandez-Gonzalez - Jul 2019-Aug 2025 - Group leader, Pirbright Institute, Woking, UK
Technicians & Research Scientists together with their next position
Inge Reckmann - Jan 95-Sept 2001 - EMBL - Technician with Prof. Felix Wieland University of Heidelberg, Germany
Sibylle Schleich - June 04-Dec 07 - LRI - Technician with Dr Aurelio Teleman, DFKZ, University of Heidelberg
Theresa Higgins - Sept 2001-Aug 2015 -LRI - Quadrant manager at The Francis Crick Institute
Dr Jasmine Abella - April 2015-Oct 2017 - LRI/Crick Institute - In Basel
Dr Antonio Postigo - July 2008-April 2018 - LRI - Head of Innovation at Psioxus Therapeutics Ltd, Oxford, UK.
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Undergraduate, Diploma and Masters Students & where they went
Gwenael Rabut - Sept 99 to Sept 2000 -DEA from University of Nice Sophia Antipolis.
Gwenael went on to do a Ph.D. with Jan Ellenberg EMBL, Heidelberg, Germany
Julian Heuberger - July - Dec 2006 - Diploma student from Freie Universität Berlin
Julian went on to a Ph.D. with Prof. Walter Birchmeier, Max-Delbrück-Center for Molecular Medicine, Berlin, Germany
Machiel Geleijnse - May - Dec 2015 - Masters in Cancer, Stem Cells and Developmental Biology at Utrecht University, the Netherlands
Alessio Yang - Jul 2019 - Sept 2020 Sandwich Student from Manchester University, UK - spending 3rd year of 4 yr Molecular Biology degree in lab. Alessio went on to do PhD with Nassos Typas at EMBL, Heidelberg in Oct 2021
Gema Rodriguez Valentin - March - Aug 2022 - Masters in Molecular Biology & Pathology of Viruses. Imperial College London. Gema then joined Steve Wilson lab as a technician in UCL, London.
Erin van der Venne - March - Aug 2023 Masters in Molecular Biology and Pathology of Viruses. Imperial College London. Erin went on to do PhD with Eric Snijder at Leiden University Medical Center, Netherlands in Jan 2024
Emma Kinloch - Jan - Aug 2023 Masters in Biomedical Sciences: Cell Biology and Advanced Microscopy track. University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Emma remained in Way lab as a research scientist until the end of April 2024 and went on to do PhD with Karen Vousden at Crick Institute in Oct 2024.
Hoi Lam Leung - March - Aug 2025 - Masters in Molecular Biology & Pathology of Viruses. Imperial College, London
Hoi Lam returned to teaching science to high school students.
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