

CECAD Central Office
The CECAD Central Office provides essential support to the CECAD leadership and the scientific community of CECAD, by coordinating and executing all management, financial and administrative tasks of the cluster.
Office Head

Dr. Sibylle Grandel
Administrative Coordinator
Telephone+49 221 478 84046
E-mailsgrandel[at]uni-koeln.de
CECAD Cologne / Central Office
CECAD Forschungszentrum
Joseph-Stelzmann-Str. 26
50931 Köln
General Issues

Jessica Knedler
Program Assistance
Telephone+49 221 478 84047
E-mailjknedler[at]uni-koeln.de
CECAD Forschungszentrum
Joseph-Stelzmann-Str. 26
50931 Köln
Finances
Urs Charpa
Financial Projectmanager
Third Party Funding
Telephone+49 221 478 84048
E-mailu.charpa[at]verw.uni-koeln.de
CECAD Office
CECAD Research Center
Joseph-Stelzmann-Str. 26
50931 Köln

Gülsüm Ersoy
General Financial Project Management & Controlling
Telephone+49 221 478 84041
E-mailgersoy[at]uni-koeln.de
CECAD Cologne / Central Office
CECAD Forschungszentrum
Joseph-Stelzmann-Str. 26
50931 Köln
RP-D: Communication & Public Outreach (interim contact)

Dr. Sibylle Grandel
Administrative Coordinator
Telephone+49 221 478 84046
E-mailsgrandel[at]uni-koeln.de
CECAD Cologne / Central Office
CECAD Forschungszentrum
Joseph-Stelzmann-Str. 26
50931 Köln
RP-C: Career Development and Equity, Diversity & Inclusion

Fabian Krohm
Study Programs Coordinator (Master, Postdoc Academy)
Equity & Diversity
Telephone+49 221 478 84040
E-mailfabian.krohm[at]uni-koeln.de
CECAD Cologne / Central Office
CECAD Forschungszentrum
Joseph-Stelzmann-Str. 26
50931 Köln

Dr. Julia Zielinski
Managing Coordinator Education,
Career Development & Diversity
Telephone+49 221 478 895 32
E-mailjulia.zielinski[at]uk-koeln.de
CECAD Forschungszentrum
Joseph-Stelzmann-Str. 26
50931 Köln
RP-E: IT and Research Data Management

Kim Opgenoorth
Research Infrastructure Services
Telephone+49 221 478 84051
E-mailopgenoorth[at]uni-koeln.de
RRZK / ITCC
CECAD Research Center
Joseph-Stelzmann-Str. 26
50931 Cologne

Moritz Hoevels
Research Infrastructure Services
Telephone+49 221 478 84050
E-mailM.Hoevels[at]uni-koeln.de
RRZK / ITCC
CECAD Forschungszentrum
Joseph-Stelzmann-Str. 26
50931 Köln
Student Assistants
- Tobias Frederik Thielemann, tthiele6[at]uni-koeln.de
Support Areas and Contacts
Not sure who to reach out to? Here’s a quick overview of the topics and tasks our team can help you with (sorted A to Z):
- Access cards (Maria)
- Calendar entries (Tanio)
- Career Development calls & management (Paulo)
- CGA related issues (Paulo, Jessica)
- Cluster Membership (Sibylle)
- Contact for externals (room booking, event planning, and video system within CECAD) (Maria)
- DFG finances (Astrid)
- Digitexx printers (Gülsüm)
- ELab Journal (Kim)
- Email forwarding to the institute (Maria)
- Faculty Board meetings (Jenny)
- Family grants (Paulo)
- Family room reservation (Jessica)
- Family support: Call for back-up tickets (Jessica)
- Financial accounts CECAD building (Gülsüm)
- Foyer info screens (Tanio)
- Foyer slider entries (Tanio)
- General building and laboratory issues (Jenny)
- Kustoden meetings (Jenny)
- Mailing lists (Jenny)
- Master programs (Fabian)
- Mausoleum (Kim)
- Mental Health First Aiders call (Jessica)
- Microsoft licenses (Maria)
- NAS storage (Kim)
- Network (Moritz)
- News & press releases (Paulo)
- OMERO (Moritz)
- Outreach & Events (Tanio)
- OWL video system booking (Maria)
- Photos & Videos (Tanio)
- Primary school project (Fabian)
- QueerCECAD Mailing list (Jessica)
- Reparaturfonds (Gülsüm)
- Research Data Management (Moritz)
- Room booking and event planning at CECAD for externals (Maria, download form)
- Social media (Tanio)
- Staff - Medical Faculty employees (Gülsüm)
- Telephone Book/Contact entries (Tanio)
- Travel grants (Paulo)
- Website (Tanio)
- Zoom/video technique training for seminar rooms (contact via email)
