Team

Instruct Coordination

Harald Schwalbe

Harald Schwalbe
Instruct-ERIC director, Full professor -

Claudia Alen Amaro

Claudia Alen Amaro
Head of Operation - Instruct-ERIC

Natalie Haley

Natalie Haley
Head of Strategy -

Pauline Audergon

Pauline Audergon
Project manager -

Regina Guenster

Regina Guenster
Project Manager -

Corinna Brockhaus

Corinna Brockhaus
Project Manager -

Eirini Xemantilotou

Eirini Xemantilotou
Project Manager - Instruct-ERIC

Sarah Townend

Sarah Townend
Project Manager -

David Marshall

David Marshall
Project Manager -

Marcus Povey

Marcus Povey
Senior Software Developer Lead -

Marcus Lowndes

Marcus Lowndes
IT Software Developer -

Omran Alhaddad

Omran Alhaddad
IT Software Developer -

Yvonne de Jong

Yvonne de Jong
IT Junior Developer / Software developer -

Lui  Holliday

Lui Holliday
Software Developer -

Madalena Gallagher

Madalena Gallagher
Administrative Officer -

Lorraine Donaldson

Lorraine Donaldson
Finance Officer - Instruct-ERIC

Francisco Guimaraes

Francisco Guimaraes
Finance Officer - Instruct-ERIC

John Dolan

John Dolan
Communications and Project Manager -

Sarah King

Sarah King
Senior Finance Officer -

Wahida  Alam

Wahida Alam
Admin and Communication Assistant -

Lucia Banci

Lucia Banci
Lead Instruct Scientist - Director of CERM - CERM/CIRMMP

Jose Carazo

Jose Carazo
Lead Instruct Scientist - Biocomputing Unit, Head - Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas CSIC

Darren Hart

Darren Hart
Lead Instruct Scientist - Directeur de Recherche -

Jan Steyaert

Jan Steyaert
Lead Instruct Scientist - Director - Vrije Universiteit Brussel

David Stuart

David Stuart
MRC Professor of Structural Biology, Oxford, Life Science Director Diamond and Director - Instruct-ERIC

Rolf Boelens

Rolf Boelens
Bijvoet Center, Utrecht University

Markku Varjosalo

Markku Varjosalo
Lead Instruct Scientist - Research Director - University of Helsinki

Ariane Briegel

Ariane Briegel
Lead Instruct Scientist - Professor - Leiden University

Harald Schwalbe

Harald Schwalbe
Instruct-ERIC director, Full professor -

Pavel Plevka

Pavel Plevka
Lead Instruct Scientist - research group leader - CEITEC - Central European Institute of Technology

Ondrej Hradil

Ondrej Hradil
Research Infrastructures Manager - Masaryk University

Matthias Wilmanns

Matthias Wilmanns
Lead Instruct Scientist - Head of EMBL Hamburg - EMBL Hamburg

Kristina Djinovic-Carugo

Kristina Djinovic-Carugo
Lead Instruct Scientist - Head of Dept. Struct. and Comput. Biol., Max F. Perutz Laboratories, University of Vienna - Medical University of Vienna

Carlos Oscar Sanchez Sorzano

Carlos Oscar Sanchez Sorzano
Lead Instruct Scientist - Staff scientist - Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas CSIC

Sarah Butcher

Sarah Butcher
Lead Instruct Scientist - Professor -

patrick Schultz

patrick Schultz
Lead Instruct Scientist - team leader - IGBMC-CERBM

Arnaud Poterszman

Arnaud Poterszman
Lead Instruct Scientist - Research Director - IGBMC-CERBM

Martin Blackledge

Martin Blackledge

Shira Albeck

Shira Albeck
Lead Instruct Scientist - Head of protein purification and characterization unit at the Israel Structural Proteomics Center (ISPC) - The Weizmann Institute of Science

Joel Sussman

Joel Sussman
Lead Instruct Scientist - Co-Director, The Israel Structural Proteomics Center -

Roberta Pierattelli

Roberta Pierattelli
Professor of Chemistry -

Andrew Quigley

Andrew Quigley
Lead Instruct Scientist - Membrane Protein Laboratory Coordinator -

Han Remaut

Han Remaut
VIB group leader - Vrije Universiteit Brussels


Instruct Centre BE

Els Pardon

Els Pardon
Lead Instruct Scientist - Research scientist -

Jan Steyaert

Jan Steyaert
Lead Instruct Scientist - Director - Vrije Universiteit Brussel

Maia De Kerpel

Maia De Kerpel
Labmanager - Vrije Universiteit Brussels

André Matagne

André Matagne
Lead Instruct Scientist - Professor -

Marylène Vandevenne

Marylène Vandevenne
Platform manager - Université de Liège


Instruct Centre CZ

Jan Dohnálek

Jan Dohnálek
Lead Instruct Scientist - Chairman of the Czech National User Group, Groupleader at IBT in Vestec near Prague, Project team of BIOCEV -

Bohdan Schneider

Bohdan Schneider
Lead Instruct Scientist - Head of laboratory - Institute of Biotechnology ASCR

Jiri Pavlicek

Jiri Pavlicek
BIOCEV - Biotechnology and Biomedicine Centre of the Academy of Sciences and Charles University in Vestec

Tatsiana Charnavets

Tatsiana Charnavets
Institute of Biotechnology ASCR

Petr Pompach

Petr Pompach

Jan Stránský

Jan Stránský

Lubica Skultetyova

Lubica Skultetyova
BIOCEV - Biotechnology and Biomedicine Centre of the Academy of Sciences and Charles University in Vestec

Pavel Plevka

Pavel Plevka
Lead Instruct Scientist - research group leader - CEITEC - Central European Institute of Technology

Radovan Fiala

Radovan Fiala
NMR facility head - CEITEC - Central European Institute of Technology

Jiri Novacek

Jiri Novacek
Head of Cryo-electron microscopy Core Facility - CEITEC - Central European Institute of Technology

Jan Pribyl

Jan Pribyl
CEITEC - Central European Institute of Technology

Zbynek Zdrahal

Zbynek Zdrahal
CEITEC - Central European Institute of Technology

Jaromir Marek

Jaromir Marek
Head of Core Facility X-Ray Diffraction and Bio-SAXS - CEITEC - Central European Institute of Technology

Josef Houser

Josef Houser

Daria Kucharova

Daria Kucharova
Project manager -

Lenka Bojanovska

Lenka Bojanovska

Klára Skopalová

Klára Skopalová

Jakub Johaník

Jakub Johaník


Instruct Centre EMBL

Kristina Djinovic-Carugo

Kristina Djinovic-Carugo
Lead Instruct Scientist - Head of Dept. Struct. and Comput. Biol., Max F. Perutz Laboratories, University of Vienna - Medical University of Vienna

Jose A. Marquez

Jose A. Marquez
Lead Instruct Scientist - Team Leader, Head of Crystallization Facility -

Anne-Sophie HUMM

Anne-Sophie HUMM
EMBL Grenoble

Edward Avenell

Edward Avenell
Project Officer -

Matthias Wilmanns

Matthias Wilmanns
Lead Instruct Scientist - Head of EMBL Hamburg - EMBL Hamburg

Thomas Schneider

Thomas Schneider
Lead Instruct Scientist - Group Leader -

Maria Garcia Alai

Maria Garcia Alai
Team leader, Head of Facility - EMBL Hamburg

Clement Blanchet

Clement Blanchet

David Ruiz Carrillo

David Ruiz Carrillo

Ivanka Araujo

Ivanka Araujo
Administrative Officer - EMBL Hamburg

Lola Jablanovic

Lola Jablanovic
EMBL Hamburg

Edward Avenell

Edward Avenell
Project Officer -

Christoph Müller

Christoph Müller
Lead Instruct Scientist - Head of Structural and Computational Biology Unit -

Simone Mattei

Simone Mattei
Lead Instruct Scientist - Team Leader -

Anna Steyer

Anna Steyer

Zhengyi Yang

Zhengyi Yang

Simon Fromm

Simon Fromm

Georg Wolff

Georg Wolff

Edward Avenell

Edward Avenell
Project Officer -

Virginia Pierini

Virginia Pierini

Nazli Celik

Nazli Celik


Instruct Centre ES

José M. Valpuesta

José M. Valpuesta
Lead Instruct Scientist - Professor -

Rocío Arranz

Rocío Arranz
Lead Instruct Scientist - Head of cryoEM facility - Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas CSIC

Francisco Javier Chichón García

Francisco Javier Chichón García
Postdoc -

Teresa Bueno

Teresa Bueno

Blanca Elena Benitez Silva

Blanca Elena Benitez Silva
Lab Manager -

Jose Carazo

Jose Carazo
Lead Instruct Scientist - Biocomputing Unit, Head - Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas CSIC

Carlos Oscar Sanchez Sorzano

Carlos Oscar Sanchez Sorzano
Lead Instruct Scientist - Staff scientist - Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas CSIC

Roberto Melero

Roberto Melero
PhD - Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas CSIC

Pablo Conesa Mingo

Pablo Conesa Mingo
Senior software developer - Instruct Image Processing Centre

Marcos Gragera

Marcos Gragera
Postdoctoral researcher -

Blanca Elena Benitez Silva

Blanca Elena Benitez Silva
Lab Manager -


Instruct Centre FI

Janne Jänis

Janne Jänis
Lead Instruct Scientist - Professor - University of Eastern Finland

Juha Rouvinen

Juha Rouvinen
Lead Instruct Scientist - Professor - University of Eastern Finland

Sarah Butcher

Sarah Butcher
Lead Instruct Scientist - Professor -

Minna Poranen

Minna Poranen
Lead Instruct Scientist - Principal Investigator -

Hanna Oksanen

Hanna Oksanen
Lead Instruct Scientist - Instruct Centre Finland Coordinator; Biomolecular Complex Purification (Biocomplex) Vice-Director; Principal investigator -

Markku Varjosalo

Markku Varjosalo
Lead Instruct Scientist - Research Director - University of Helsinki

Katri Eskelin

Katri Eskelin
Senior scientists, Biocomplex, Instruct-HiLIFE and Instruct-FI -

Tuomas Niemi-Aro

Tuomas Niemi-Aro
Laboratory Engineer -

Salla Keskitalo

Salla Keskitalo
University of Helsinki

Hannu Kauko

Hannu Kauko
Controller - Helsingin Yliopisto

Kiran Ahmad

Kiran Ahmad

Lari Lehtiö

Lari Lehtiö
Lead Instruct Scientist - Professor of Structural Biology, Coordinator of Structural Biology at the Biocenter Oulu -

Rik Wierenga

Rik Wierenga
Lead Instruct Scientist - professor -

Rajaram Venkatesan

Rajaram Venkatesan
Lead Instruct Scientist - Group leader -

Tiila-Riikka Kiema

Tiila-Riikka Kiema

Kristian Koski

Kristian Koski
Senior researcher -

Hongmin Tu

Hongmin Tu
Project manager - University of Oulu

Edward Daniel

Edward Daniel
University of Oulu

Ville Ratas

Ville Ratas
Biocenter Oulu


Instruct Centre FR1

patrick Schultz

patrick Schultz
Lead Instruct Scientist - team leader - IGBMC-CERBM

Arnaud Poterszman

Arnaud Poterszman
Lead Instruct Scientist - Research Director - IGBMC-CERBM

Catherine Birck

Catherine Birck
Head of Integrated Structural Biology Platform - IGBMC-CERBM

Marie-Christine Poterszman

Marie-Christine Poterszman
Instruct Manager - IGBMC-CERBM


Instruct Centre FR2

Darren Hart

Darren Hart
Lead Instruct Scientist - Directeur de Recherche -

Winfried Weissenhorn

Winfried Weissenhorn
Lead Instruct Scientist - Group Leader - Universite Grenoble Alpes

Caroline Mas

Caroline Mas
Biophysics Platform Manager - Integrated Structural Biology Grenoble (ISBG)

Bernhard Brutscher

Bernhard Brutscher
Institut de Biologie Structurale

Jerome Boisbouvier

Jerome Boisbouvier
Research Director -

Lionel Imbert

Lionel Imbert
Engineer -

Elisabetta Boeri Erba

Elisabetta Boeri Erba
head of the mass spectrometry facility - Institut de Biologie Structurale

Jean-Philippe Kleman

Jean-Philippe Kleman
Institut de Biologie Structurale

Guy Schoehn

Guy Schoehn
Head of the PSB electron microscopy platform -

Florine Dupeux

Florine Dupeux
Institut de Biologie Structurale

Philippe Mas

Philippe Mas

Linda Ponnet

Linda Ponnet
Integrated Structural Biology Grenoble (ISBG)


Instruct Centre IL

Haim Wolfson

Haim Wolfson
Lead Instruct Scientist - Professor of Computer Science - Tel Aviv University

Gideon Schreiber

Gideon Schreiber
Lead Instruct Scientist - Group leader - The Weizmann Institute of Science

Joel Sussman

Joel Sussman
Lead Instruct Scientist - Co-Director, The Israel Structural Proteomics Center -

Shira Albeck

Shira Albeck
Lead Instruct Scientist - Head of protein purification and characterization unit at the Israel Structural Proteomics Center (ISPC) - The Weizmann Institute of Science

Natasha Gruber

Natasha Gruber
Administrative Assistant - Weizmann Institute of Science


Instruct Centre IT

Lucia Banci

Lucia Banci
Lead Instruct Scientist - Director of CERM - CERM/CIRMMP

Isabella Felli

Isabella Felli
Lead Instruct Scientist - Associate Professor - CERM/CIRMMP

Rebecca Del Conte

Rebecca Del Conte
Graduated technitian -

Marco Fragai

Marco Fragai
Associate Professor -

Moreno Lelli

Moreno Lelli
Associate Professor -

Enrico Ravera

Enrico Ravera
Associate Professor - CERM/CIRMMP

Enrico Luchinat

Enrico Luchinat
Junior Assistant Professor -

Giacomo Parigi

Giacomo Parigi
CERM/CIRMMP

Francesca Morelli

Francesca Morelli

Laura Di Genova

Laura Di Genova


Instruct Centre NL

Marc Baldus

Marc Baldus
Lead Instruct Scientist - Professor - Bijvoet Center, Utrecht University

Alexandre Bonvin

Alexandre Bonvin
Lead Instruct Scientist - Professor of Computational Structural Biology - Bijvoet Center, Utrecht University

Piet Gros

Piet Gros
Lead Instruct Scientist - group leader - Bijvoet Center, Utrecht University

Albert Heck

Albert Heck
Lead Instruct Scientist - Scientific Director of the Bijvoet Center at Utrecht University - Bijvoet Center, Utrecht University

Hugo van Ingen

Hugo van Ingen
Lead Instruct Scientist - Assistant Professor - Bijvoet Center, Utrecht University

Arjan  Barendregt

Arjan Barendregt
Utrecht University

Andrei Gurinov

Andrei Gurinov
Bijvoet Center, Utrecht University

Reinout Raijmakers

Reinout Raijmakers
Managing Director Bijvoet Center - Bijvoet Center, Utrecht University

Anastassis Perrakis

Anastassis Perrakis
Lead Instruct Scientist - Project Leader -

Patrick Celie

Patrick Celie
Lead Instruct Scientist - Protein Facility manager at NKI - The Netherlands Cancer Institute

Hans Wienk

Hans Wienk
Lead Instruct Scientist - Grant Support / Project Management -

Alexander Fish

Alexander Fish
Researcher - The Netherlands Cancer Institute

Ludo Renault

Ludo Renault
Lead Instruct Scientist - Head of NeCEN Facility - Leiden University

Ariane Briegel

Ariane Briegel
Lead Instruct Scientist - Professor - Leiden University

Meindert Lamers

Meindert Lamers
Lead Instruct Scientist - Associate Professor -

Anneke van Asch

Anneke van Asch
Leiden University


Instruct Centre UK

Yehuda Halfon

Yehuda Halfon
Lead Instruct Scientist - The Weizmann Institute of Science

Cryo EM team at Leeds admin account

Cryo EM team at Leeds admin account
Facility staff - University of Leeds

Gwyndaf Evans

Gwyndaf Evans
Lead Instruct Scientist - Principal Beamline Scientist - Diamond Light Source Ltd

Martin Walsh

Martin Walsh
Lead Instruct Scientist - Deputy Director Life Sciences - Diamond Light Source Ltd

Frank von Delft

Frank von Delft
Lead Instruct Scientist - Principal Beamline Scientist -

Robert Rambo

Robert Rambo
Lead Instruct Scientist - Diamond Light Source Ltd

Maria Harkiolaki

Maria Harkiolaki
Lead Instruct Scientist -

Armin Wagner

Armin Wagner
Lead Instruct Scientist - Principal Beamline Scientist - Diamond Light Source Ltd

Andrew Quigley

Andrew Quigley
Lead Instruct Scientist - Membrane Protein Laboratory Coordinator -

Jodie Lavender

Jodie Lavender

University  of Oxford

University of Oxford
Lead Instruct Scientist -