p.huesgen[a]fz-juelich.de
phone +49 2461 61-6873

Dr. Pitter Huesgen
Team leader / PI
After undergraduate studies in chemistry, Pitter´s interest turned to biochemistry and proteolysis. Graduate studies on plant Deg/HtrA proteases in Stockholm, Sweden, and Konstanz, Germany, involved a challenging quest for their physiological substrates. Determined to solve this problem, Pitter spent an extended Postdoc in Vancouver, BC, Canada, figuring out how to do so with fancy - and costly - instrumentation before joining Forschungszentrum Jülich.

Activities: Writing grants/papers/reports/..., talking to people, solving problems, drinking coffee

Dr. Fatih Dem​ir
Postdoc
After studying many different topics during his biology studies in Heidelberg, Fatih focussed on biochemistry of plant membrane protein complexes in Arabidopsis, tobacco and venus fly trap for his PhD studies in Würzburg. Fatih not only discovered new membrane proteins and their interactions, but also that mass spectrometry can be a fun and useful thing to do. After first postdoctoral research in neuro- and cardiophysiological at the University Hospital Düsseldorf he has now returned to his core interest, plant proteomics.

Activities: Hunting protease substrates, talking to LC systems and company representatives

Dr. Estibaliz Gonzalez de San Roman Martin
 Postdoc

Activities: Mass spectrometry imaging

Stefan Niedermaier

PhD student
Stefan obtained his B.Sc. in biochemistry and a M.Sc in biomedical sciences from Mannheim University of Applied Sciences, Germany, with both thesis projects conducted in industry. A desire to gain more experience in protein mass spectrometry and proteomics convinced him to join us for a PhD thesis on plant proteolysis.

Main activities: Plant degradomics, (high light) stress, exploring city life (outside Jülich) 

Andreas Perrar

PhD student
Andreas studied Biology at the University of Cologne and soon became fascinated by plants. After graduating with BSc project on carotenoid production in microalgae he moved on to obtain a Master´s degree in plant sciences at the University of Bonn. During his graduate studies he gained insights into molecular, physiological and structural aspects of plants and the biodiversity and evolution of embryophytes. After graduating with a MSc project involving  NextGen sequencing, Andreas decided to change fields again and to learn more about proteomics and plant-pathogen interactions.

Activities: Plant degradomics, plant-pathogen interactions

Nadine Wettengl

Technical Assistant 
Nadine is a true ZEA-3 native with strong experience in a variety of analytical techniques. Nadine spends half of her time with our colleagues primarily working with ICP-OES, the other half with us taking care of tasks such as proteomics sample preparation and MALDI data acquisition.