
SGG, 2025 spring. Top – left to right: Robin, Samuel, Théo, Tabea. Bottom – left to right: Leona, Adriaan, Zoltán, Diana, Cailyn
Current members
| Name | Position | Topic | Date |
| Zoltán Kutalik | Associate professor | MR of all kinds | 2013- |
| Mariona Lopez Gil | Executive Assistant | 2018- | |
| Tabea Schoeler | Post-doc | Genetic contribution to mental health outcomes | 2020- |
| Adriaan van der Graaf | Post-doc | Causal networks | 2021- |
| Leona Knüsel | PhD student | Sporadic Alzheimer’s disease | 2022- |
| Kaido Lepik | Post-doc (part time) | Mediation MR | 2022- |
| Samuel Moix | PhD student | Aging and pharmacogenetics | 2023- |
| Nicolas Goss | PhD student | Metabolomics & complex health outcomes | 2023- |
| Robin Hofmeister | Post-doc | Parental causal effects | 2023- |
| Mihaela-Diana Zanoaga | PhD student | Selection strength estimation | 2023- |
| Théo Cavinato | PhD student | Population genetics & data privacy | 2023- |
| Sadegh Rizi | Intern | Metabolite ratio causality | 2024- |
| Milka Zakja | Intern | Drug side effects | 2025- |
| Sydney Fleming | MSc student | Ground-truth networks to identify robust drug target interactions | 2025- |
| Martin Quintas | MSc student | Parent of origin effect rare variants gene burden tests | 2025- |
Past members
| Name | Position | Topic | Date |
| Chaymae Ziyani | PhD student | Single cell RNA-seq QTLs | 2024-25 |
| Chiara Auwerx | PhD student | Rare-common variant continuum | 2020-24 |
| Marie Sadler | PhD student | Drug repurposing | 2020-24 |
| Liza Darrous | PhD student | Robust MR | 2019-23 |
| Amelie Fritz | Visiting PhD student | Sex-specific genetic differences between trait pairs | 2023 |
| Samuel Moix | MSc student | Telomere length & aging | 2022-23 |
| Sven Erik Ojavee | PhD student | Bayesian time-to-event analysis | 2020-22 |
| Kaido Lepik | Post-doc | Mediation MR | 2021-22 |
| Jenny Sjaarda | Post-doc | Cross-partner MR | 2019-22 |
| Marion Patxot | PhD student | Genetic architecture of complex traits | 2020-22 |
| Malú Zamariolli | Visiting PhD student | 22q11.2 deletion syndrome | 2021-22 |
| Tristan Woh | Visiting MSc student | Causal relationships between DNAm and complex traits | 2022 |
| Yanina Timasheva | visiting Post-doc | Estimation of multi-trait selection strength | 2021-22 |
| Ninon Mounier | PhD student | Bayesian GWAS | 2017-22 |
| Eleonora Porcu | Post-doc | Gene expression-trait causality | 2016-21 |
| Jonathan Sulc | PhD student | Genetics subclasses of obesity | 2017-21 |
| Mathieu Schornoz | MSc student | Estimation of multi-trait selection strength | 2021 |
| Vanessa Pitz | visiting PhD student | Parkinson’s genetics | 2019 |
| Tess Bonato | MSc student | Genomic privacy | 2018 |
| Emilie Ha | MSc student | Zinc homeostasis genetics | 2018 |
| Sina Rüeger | PhD student | Summary statistic imputation | 2013-18 |
| Peter Joshi | visiting scientist | Lifespan genetics | 2018 |
| Elisabeth Dahlqwist | Visiting PhD student | Attributable risk and causal inference | 2017-18 |
| Damia Noce | Visiting PhD student | Genetics of the complement pathway | 2018 |
| Anthony Sonrel | MSc student | Obesity genetics & diet | 2017-18 |
| Aaron McDaid | Post-doc | Genetics of Aging | 2014-17 |
| Kaido Lepik | Visiting PhD student | Gene expression biomarkers for CRP | 2017 |
| Jing Cui | PhD student | Neuro-genetics | 2013-16 |
| Aurélien Macé | PhD student | CNV analysis | 2012-16 |
| David Lamparter | PhD student | Pathway GWAS | 2012-16 |
| Yujuan Gui | MSc student | Metabolic fingerprints of drugs | 2015 |
| Sophie Debonneville | MSc student | Diet-genetics | 2014 |
| Rico Rueedi | Post-doc | Metabolome genetics | 2012-14 |
| Antony Le Béchec | Post-doc | Exome sequencing analysis | 2012-13 |
| Cristian Riccio | MSc student | Diet-genetics | 2013 |

SGG, 2024 Bouldering. Top – left to right: Zoltán, Robin, Samuel, Adriaan, Sadegh, Tabea (frame). Bottom – left to right: Diana, Chiara, Leona, Chaymae

SGG, 2023 winter retreat. Left to right: Zoltán, Samuel, Leona, Adriaan, Tabea, Chiara, Liza, Marie, Robin.

SGG, 2021 fall. Top – left to right: Sven, Malú, Jonathan, Kaido, Adriaan, Eleonora, Chiara, Jenny, Zoltán. Bottom – left to right: Tabea, Liza, Ninon, Marie.

SGG, 2021 winter dinner. Left (front to back): Kaido, Ninon, Adriaan, Jonathan, Tabea, Marion. Right(front to back): Yanina, Liza, Malú, Zoltán, Sven, Chiara, Marie.

SGG, 2020 summer. Left to right: Sven, Marie, Liza, Eleonora, Chiara, Marion, Zoltan, Jonathan, Ninon.
SGG, 2017 Summer. Left to right: Aaron, Maarja, Kaido, Sina, Zoltán, Jonathan, Ninon, Anthony, Eleonora.
SGG, 2016 Summer. Left to right: Zoltan, Eleonora, Yujuan, Aaron, David, Sina, Aurelien.


