Stéphane received his Doctorat (Ph.D.) in Molecular Microbiology in 2004 at the University of Lyon (France) under the supervision of Prof. Christophe Bruel. From 2005 to 2011, as a postdoc with Prof. Barbara Conradt at the Dartmouth Medical School (USA), Stéphane started to work with Caenorhabditis elegans focusing on the regulation of mitochondrial dynamics by BCL2-like proteins. In 2011, Stéphane moved to the Department of Cell and Developmental Biology at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich (Germany) with Prof. Barbara Conradt and continued to work on different aspects of mitochondrial biology, first as a Postdoc/Teaching Assistant and then as a Researcher/Lecturer. In 2016, Stéphane received funding from the Deutsche Forschung Gemeinschaft and started to lead his own research, focusing on cellular organelle quality control. Stéphane joined the IBS CGI in February 2020. Since Feburary 2025, Stéphane is a Research Associate Professor at the Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST) associated with IBS CGI.

Peter graduated from the University of Dundee, where he obtained his integrated master’s in biomedical science. He is originally from Glasgow and is now studying for his combined masters-Ph.D. in Biological Sciences at UNIST. Peter joined the Lab in October, 2020.

Dong Eon joined the Lab in March, 2024.

Khadisha joined the Lab for an internship in 2025.