Biomedical Sensor Technology @ TU Dresden
Organophotonic Sensing @ KSI Meinsberg
GROUP MEMBERS
Principle Investigator
Caroline obtained her PhD in physics from Technische Universität Dresden in 2015, working on high-brightness organic LEDs. She was a postdoctoral fellow and Marie Skłodowska Curie fellow at University of St Andrews, UK, before starting her group at KSI Meinsberg in November 2018. In 2023, she became a TUD young investigator. In July 2024, she got appointed at TUD as full professor and chair for Biomedical Sensor Technology.
caroline.murawski@tu-dresden.de
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RABIUL ISLAM
PhD Student
Rabiul Islam accomplished his master degree in Materials Science from Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany. During his master thesis, he specialized on fabrication and electrical characterization of organic neuromorphic memory devices. Continuing this path, he started his PhD at KSI Meinsberg in December 2021 focussing on organic photodiodes for fluorescence imaging.
DR. SIDDHARTHA SAGGAR
Postdoctoral Researcher
Siddhartha pursued his Ph.D. degree at the University of Queensland, Australia, studying the fundamental electro-optical properties, charge transport and recombination in Organic Photodiodes (OPDs) - involving both experimental and theoretical sides. He joined the group as Postdoc in February 2022 to conduct research on organic semiconducting devices for new biomedical applications.
siddhartha.saggar@tu-dresden.de
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DR. JENS P. WEBER
Postdoctoral Researcher
Jens started his journey with a PhD degree at the Max-Planck-Institute for biophysical chemistry in 2010 in Neuroscience and Biophysics tackling principles in synaptic transmission. Later on he was a research fellow at the CNCR in Amsterdam, the Institute of Experimental Medicine in Budapest and the Ruhr-University in Bochum.
NIRBHIKA NANDAKUMAR
PhD Student
Nirbhika obtained a master's degree in organic and molecular electronics from Technische Universität Dresden. She joined the group in July 2022 as a PhD student working on new transparent metal electrodes for flexible OLEDs.
SIMON LETZER
PhD Student
Simon earned a Master's degree in Physics from TU Dresden, where he completed his thesis on fluorescence spectroscopy of biomolecules. He joined the group as a PhD student in May 2025 and is working on developing infrared LEDs based on nanoparticles for use in wearable sensors.
SARI ANSCHÜTZ
Master Student
Sari is a master student at the University of Applied Sciences in Mittweida and obtained her bachelor's degree in Environmental Biotechnology. During her bachelor thesis, she investigated zebrafish embryos and the development of blood vessels in dependency of various drugs. She joined the group in October 2023 and will mainly focus on the determination of pheromones in Drosophila melanogaster using mass spectroscopy.
ALUMNI
GIEDRIUS PUIDOKAS
Internship Student
Giedrius has a Bachelor’s degree in light engineering from the faculty of physics at Vilnius University, Lithuania. His previous research focussed on improvement of OLED lifetime. He joined the group for an internship on organic photodiodes from February to August 2023 under the Erasmus+ scheme.
Giedrius has left the group to pursue a Master degree at Vilnius university.
DR. GIUSEPPE CICCONE
PhD Student
Giuseppe graduated in biomedical engineering and industrial bioengineering at Università degli studi di Napoli Federico II, Italy. From November 2019, he pursued his PhD on organic LEDs for optogenetics at Technische Universität Dresden with Prof Karl Leo and co-supervised by Caroline.
He graduated in May 2023 and joined the Sensing Technologies Lab at the Free University of Bolzano as a postdoc in October 2023.
PhD Student
Ilenia studied biomedical and electronic engineering at University of Cagliari, Italy. She joined the group in February 2019 as a PhD student working on new light sources with high spatial resolution for optogenetics.
Ilenia graduated in April 2024 and joined Jules-Gonin Eye Hospital, Fondation Asile des Aveugles, University of Lausanne, Switzerland for a postdoc.
AJISHA C.
Junior Research Fellow
Ajisha has completed her integrated BS-MS in Physics from Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER), Berhampur, and completed her master thesis at the Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bengaluru, on the topic of scalable metasurfaces on flexible substrates. She joined KSI in 2023 as researcher working on narrowband OLEDs for optogenetics and fluorescence imaging.
In 2025, she joined the university of Münster to pursue a PhD.
SARI ANSCHÜTZ
Master Student
Sari was a Master student at the University of Applied Sciences in Mittweida and obtained her bachelor's degree in Environmental Biotechnology. She joined the group in October 2023 and focussed on the determination of pheromones in Drosophila melanogaster using mass spectroscopy.
She finished her Master degree in November 2024 and joined the university of Marburg to pursue a PhD.