The work in our lab is driven by scientific curiosity: we seek to understand and describe how biology works. We sometimes also modify and engineer biological systems for various purposes useful to the society.
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The Mijakovic lab is active at two sites: Chalmers (Sweden) and DTU (Denmark).
Our lab started out as a microbiology group, but as our ambitions and curiosity grew, we expanded into several other areas of life science, often using interdisciplinary approaches. Today, in addition to general bacteriology, we work with applications of various nanomaterials in biomedicine and biotechnology, metabolic engineering of microbial cell factories and experimental evolution.
Scientific freedom and excellence
The spirit in which we work together as a team is that of scientific freedom. With that freedom come many responsibilities: to strive for scientific excellence, to guarantee the quality and reproducibility of our results, to always be aware of ethical dimensions of our research and to ensure support for our research, which is financed with external funding from public research councils and private foundations.
Collaboration - essential part of our work
Another important aspect of working in the Mijakovic lab is the spirit or collaboration. Since we all come from diverse scientific disciplines, we all have a lot to learn from each other. We all help and support each other - our best work is done when we work together.
IMPORTANT NOTE FOR STUDENTS APPLYING FOR INTERNSHIPS
Please note that our group does not admit internships/student projects shorter than one semester (5-6 months). Master projects carried out in our laboratory are not remunerated, so international students have to secure their own scholarships.
IMPORTANT NOTE REGARDING SPONTANEOUS APPLICATIONS FOR PhD and POSTDOC POSITIONS
Please note that our group cannot accommodate such requests. All our PhD/postdoc positions are always advertised at the university vacancies website. If you see a position that suits you, please apply via the official channels. If you don’t see any positions, that means we have none currently.
Group members
Current members of the Mijakovic Lab at Chalmers SysBio:
Martin Lovmar, Adjunct Professor
Dina Petranovic, Visiting Professor
Lei Shi, Researcher
Santosh Pandit, Researcher
Shadi Rahimi, Research specialist
Monika Gupta, Post-doc
Vikash Kumar, Post-doc
Golnaz Mobasseri, Post-doc
Eleonora Ornati, Post-doc
Olena Tkachova, Post-doc
Linnea Max, PhD student
Jennie Önnermalm, MSc student
Sonia Ramm, MSc student
Current Members of the Mijakovic lab at DTU Biosustain:
Carsten Jers, senior researcher
Colleen Manyumwa, Post-doc
Chenxi Zhang, Post-doc
Mohammed Ghalib, PhD student
Saranya Nallapareddy, PhD student
Peter Gockel, PhD student
Darko Kjiproski, Project manager
Previous members:
Research Associates/Assistant Professors:
Sandrine Poncet
Yves Pagot
Tao Chen
Researchers:
Xin Chen
Postdoctoral fellows:
Fen Yang
Valentina Cantatore
Aida Kalantari
Hee Jin Hwang
Raghu Mokkapati
Abida Sultan
Abderahmane Derouiche
Mériem Senissar
Abhroop Garg
Vaishnavi Ravikumar
Mohsen Zareian
Avlant Nilsson
Julie Bonne Køhler
Yanyan Chen
Caroline Wasén
Julie Couillaud
Paula Martínez Pérez
Jian Zhang
Mostafa Salehirozveh
Zhejian Cao
Priyanka Singh
PhD students:
Mette Erichsen Hansen
Carsten Jers
Boumediene Soufi
Sujata Vijay Sohoni
Ahasanul Kobir
Abderrahman Deroiuche
Charlotte Cousin
Aida Kalantari
Pedro Aragón Fernández
Chenxhi Zhang
Mukil Madhusudanan
Ema Svetlicic
Hengzi Ruan
Leonarda Acha Alarcon
Suvasini Balasubramanian
Belay Tilahun Tadesse
Anargyros Alexiou
Visiting PhD students:
Alireza Neissi
Hossein Helalat
Samira Ebrahimi
Amani Belaiba
Pragati Rajendra More
Claudia Capella
Kristian Nakic
Visiting Postdocs:
Renata Biba
Asma Gholami
Technicians:
Violeta Djekic
Mohammad Abdellatif
Master students/interns:
Catarina Silva
Carsten Jers
Boumediene Soufi
Elsebeth Oline Sondergaard
Malene Mejer Hansen
Marcin Krzystanek
Katarzyna Warzyzinska
Christina Johnsson
Dafni Paspaliari
Romilda Wangari
Ahasanul Kobir
Ana Boskovic
Lorena Kolar Znika
Paula Dobrinic
Kristina Kovac
Sanja Tunjic
Alessandra Merlo
Anja Tusar
Li Xu
Sophie Antonsson
Mugdha Bapat
Iza Erzar
Nisha Neupane
Victor Lanai
Nihal Kottan
Mohsen Bahmani
Jose Manuel Outomuro
Ivana Saraga
Ellen Sjöstrand
Linnea Arum
Narges Goli
Group leader
- Deputy Head Of Department, Life Sciences