Curriculum Vitae
Education
2017 – 2020
PhD in Biology (summa cum laude), Heidelberg University
Max Planck Institute for Medical Research (Prof. Joachim P. Spatz)
2015 – 2017
M.Sc. Molecular Biotechnology, Heidelberg University
Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems, Stuttgart, Germany
2011 – 2015
B.Sc. Molecular Biotechnology, Heidelberg University
Dept. for Biophysical Chemistry, Heidelberg University, Germany
Academic Positions
Since 2022
Research Group Leader
Leibniz Institute for New Materials, Saarbrücken Germany
Since 2022
Adjunct Research Group Leader
Max Planck Bristol Center for Minimal Biology, Bristol, UK
2021 – 2022
Marie Skłodowska Curie Individual Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology, University of Oxford, UK
2020 – 2021
Postdoctoral Scientist
Max Planck Institute for Medical Research, Heidelberg, Germany
Awards, Fellowships and Recognitions
- Emmy Noether Research Group Leader, German Science Foundation
- Daimler and Benz Foundation, Postdoctoral Fellow
- Otto Hahn Medal, Max Planck Society
- Young Investigator Award, International Society of Extracellular Vesicles
- Karl-von-Frisch Award, German Life Science Organization (vBio)
- Individual Fellowship, Marie Skłodowska Curie Program, European Commission
- Walter Benjamin Postdoctoral Fellowship, German Science Foundation
- Add-on Postdoctoral Fellowship, Joachim Herz Foundation
- PhD-Fellowship, Max Planck School Matter to Life
- PhD-Fellowship, Hartmut Hoffmann-Berling Graduate School
- Exchange Fellowship, Elisabeth Meurer Foundation
- Study Fellowship, German National Merit Fundation (Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes)
Publications
Burgstaller, Anna | Madureira, Sara | Staufer, Oskar
Current Opinion in Biotechnology , 2025, 92 103252.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0958166924001885?via%3Dihub
Leithner, Alexander | Staufer, Oskar | Mitra, Tanmay | Liberta, Falk | Valvo, Salvatore | Kutuzov, Mikhail | Dada, Hannah | Spaeth, Jacob | Zhou, Weijie | Schiele, Felix | Reindl, Sophia | Nar, Herbert | Hoerer, Stefan | Crames, Maureen | Comeau, Stephen | Young, David | Low, Sarah | Jenkins, Edward | Davis, Simon J. | Klenerman, David | Nixon, Andrew | Pefaur, Noah | Wyatt, David | Dushek, Omer | Kasturirangan, Srinath | Dustin, Michael L.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America , 2025, 122 (22), e2425781122.
https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2425781122
Zhou, Xiangda | Zhang, Sijia | Yang, Wenjuan | Gonder, Susanne | Sadjadi, Zeinab | Piernitzki, Nils | Moter, Alina | Sharma, Shulagna | Largeot, Anne | Küchler, Nadja | Kaschek, Lea | Schäfer, Gertrud | Schwarz, Eva C. | Eichler, Hermann | Ullrich, Evelyn | Rieger, Heiko | Staufer, Oskar | Paggetti, Jérome | Moussay, Etienne | Hoth, Markus | Qu, Bin
Advanced Science , 2025, xxx (xxx), 05731.
https://advanced.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/advs.202505731
Burgstaller, Anna | Nink, Tamara | Walter, Niklas | Lopez Lopez, Erick Angel | Chang, Shin-Fang | Staufer, Oskar
Advanced Healthcare Materials , 2025, xxx (xxx), e03498.
https://advanced.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/adhm.202503498
Burgstaller, Anna | Nink, Tamara | Walter, Niklas | Lopez Lopez, Erick Angel | Chang, Shin-Fang | Staufer, Oskar
Advanced Healthcare Materials , 2025, xxx (xxx), e03498.
https://advanced.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/adhm.202503498
Leithner, Alexander | Staufer, Oskar | Mitra, Tanmay | Liberta, Falk | Valvo, Salvatore | Kutuzov, Mikhail | Dada, Hannah | Spaeth, Jacob | Zhou, Weijie | Schiele, Felix | Reindl, Sophia | Nar, Herbert | Hoerer, Stefan | Crames, Maureen | Comeau, Stephen | Young, David | Low, Sarah | Jenkins, Edward | Davis, Simon J. | Klenerman, David | Nixon, Andrew | Pefaur, Noah | Wyatt, David | Dushek, Omer | Kasturirangan, Srinath | Dustin, Michael L.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America , 2025, 122 (22), e2425781122.
https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2425781122
Burgstaller, Anna | Madureira, Sara | Staufer, Oskar
Current Opinion in Biotechnology , 2025, 92 103252.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0958166924001885?via%3Dihub
Piernitzki, Nils | Staufer, Oskar
Advanced Therapeutics , 2024, 7 (3), 2300340.
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/adtp.202300340
Nature nanotechnology , 2024, 19 3-4.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41565-023-01509-w
Advanced NanoBiomed Research , 2024, 4 (9), 2400037.
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/anbr.202400037