A collaborative team across biology, physics, medicine, and engineering.
We are biophysicists, cell biologists, chemists and instrumentation engineers united by a shared curiosity about how cells organize themselves at the nanoscale.
Principal Investigator
Dr. Arindam Ghosh
Group Leader
Arindam (Lithu) Ghosh studied Biotechnology in his Masters at the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay. After completing his Masters degree, he moved to Göttingen, Germany for pursuing a PhD in Biophysics under the supervision of Prof. Jörg Enderlein within the International Max Planck Research School on Physics of Biological and Complex Systems (IMPRS-PBCS) at the University of Göttingen. He graduated in the summer of 2021 with Summa cum laude. Following his PhD, Arindam moved to the Biozentrum, University of Würzburg in July 2021 for his postdoctoral training with Prof. Markus Sauer. In 2024 September, he shifted to the EMBL Single Molecule Science Node, UNSW Sydney for a second postdoc training with A/Prof. Izzy Jayasinghe. Arindam returned to Germany again in January 2026 to establish his independent research group at the newly established NCT WERA under DKFZ in Würzburg. During his training years, Arindam has developed technologies like graphene induced energy transfer (GIET) imaging, TDI-DNA-PAINT, and applied these technologies in biophysical and biomedical research. He has consistently published main author articles in Science, Nature Photonics, ACS Nano, Nano Letters, etc.
Postdoctoral Scientists
Ms. Julia Weingart
Postdoctoral Scientist (started 14.09.2026)
I'm Julia Weingart and my journey into the field of biology already started with an apprenticeship as a Biology Laboratory Assistant in the private sector. After completing my apprenticeship, I decided to study biology at the University of Würzburg. Here, I had the chance to get deeper insights into cell and developmental biology using the model organism Trypanosoma brucei and gained first experiences in fluorescence microscopy. During my Masters I focused on human genetics, wherefore I modified Drosophila melanogaster larvae via CRISPR/Cas and investigated inheritance patterns of a hearing loss gene. My PhD project at the Department of Biophysics and Biotechnology was primarily about live cell imaging of therapeutic antibodies in context of chronic lymphocytic leukemia and multiple myeloma. Within this time, I gained a lot of experience with lattice light sheet (LLS), TDI-DNA PAINT and expansion microscopy (ExM).