Dr. Stephan Wimmi - Curriculum Vitae
Education and Professional Career
Working Experience
since 08/2026: CMMC Career Advancement Program Group leader: Deciphering the Spatial-Temporal Regulation of Type IV Secretion-Mediated Bacterial Killing and Antibiotic Efflux Pumps in Stenotrophomonas maltophilia
since 02/2025: DFG Walter Benjamin Postdoc position, Institute for Biological Physics, University of Cologne, Germany, Secretome and efflux transition from single cells to microcolonies, Group of Berenike Maier
10/2022-01/2025: Postdoc, Institute for Biological Physics, University of Cologne, Germany, Type 4 Pili interactions, Group of Berenike Maier
10/2022-03/2024: Guest Scientist, MPI Marburg, Germany, Dynamics of T3SS components, Group of Andreas Diepold
06/2021-07/2021: DAAD founded research exchange, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, USA, Group of Ulrike Endesfelder
05/2021-10/2022: Postdoc, MPI Marburg, Germany, Dynamics of T3SS components, Group of Andreas Diepold
Education
2017-05/2021: Ph.D, Group of Andreas Diepold, Max Planck Institute for Terrestrial Microbiology in Marburg, Germany, Molecular function and regulation of the bacterial injectisome (T3SS), defended with magna cum laude 1.0
2014-2016: Master, Molecular and Cellular Biology, Philipps University of Marburg, Germany, Thesis: “Polar organization and development during the cell cycle of Vibrio cholerae and Vibrio parahaemolyticus” Max Planck Institute for Terrestrial Microbiology in Marburg, Germany; Research group of Dr. Simon Ringgaard.
2009-2014: Bachelor of Biological Sciences, Kaiserslautern University of Technology, Germany.