The Student Biolab Mission

The Student Biolab is a platform and a community for students to design, prototype, and implement their life science research and product ideas.

We are a community of motivated students passionate about biotech, synbio, and all things biology, with a drive to do things ourselves. We operate our wet lab, where we run experimental workshops, build startup prototypes, and have fun with our community of students. We maintain close ties with academia and industry by organizing events with leaders in these fields. 

Meet the Team

  • Timothy Kurer

    President | iGEM Lead
    UZH M.Sc. Neural Systems and Computation

  • Sasha Melkonyan

    Quästor | Biolab Space | iDEC
    ETH M.Sc. CompBio | ex-Google engineer

  • Flavio Rump

    Vice-President
    ETH M.Sc. ComBio | ex-Ginkgo

  • Joseph Iwasyk

    BioIncubate Lead
    ETH M.Sc.; UPenn Alumnus | ex-AlphaThera

  • Justyna Stefaniak

    Marketing Lead
    ETH PhD D-PHYS

  • Larissa Bison

    Community & Events Lead
    UZH M.A. English and Biology

  • Ivona Juric

    Vice-Community & Events UZH M.Sc. Biology

  • Ekaterina Tocheva

    Vice-Community & Events UZH B.Sc. Biomedicine

  • Julia Wyss

    Vice-iGEM UZH B.Sc. BIomedicine

  • Oliver Nagl

    Vice-Biolab Space
    ETH B.Sc. Interdisciplinary Sciences

  • Elina Jansone

    Vice-Biolab Space ETH M.Sc. CompBio

  • Gabriel Cervera Arriaga

    Vice-iDEC ETH M.Sc. Biology

  • Kian Bigovic Villi

    Vice-iDEC ETH M.Sc.Biology

  • Kiran Kurinjirappalli

    Vice-Quästor
    UZH B.Sc. Medicine

Our Advisors

  • Dr. Ulrich Genick

    ISMB, ETH

  • Lucie Rejman

    Head of SPH | ETH

  • Prof. Dr. Markus Künzler

    Prof. D-BIOL, ETH

  • Dr. Matthias Gstaiger

    D-BIOL, ETH

Our Sponsor

CSEM is the first official sponsor of the Student Biolab. We greatly appreciate their support enabling our workshops, offering scientific expertise, & helping power the student impact from our lab space!

CSEM is a non-profit R&D company with locations throughout Switzerland, specializing in cutting-edge R&D. Their mission is to support the Swiss economy through R&D work & subsequent technology transfer, with a large focus in life sciences ranging from small startups to multinational pharmaceutical companies.

Partners