Melanie Hannebelle
Assistant Professor, KTH Royal Institute of Technology · SciLifeLab Fellow
Melanie leads the Hannebelle Lab in the Biophysics division of the Department of Applied Physics at KTH, and is a SciLifeLab fellow.
She is a bioengineer and biophysicist working at the interface of physics, microbiology, and global health. Her research uses microscopy, microfluidics, and quantitative modeling to study how pathogens move, adhere, and organize, with a particular focus on schistosomiasis and tuberculosis, two diseases of major global health burden.
Beyond the lab, Melanie is committed to making science a more open and equitable endeavor, through open-source instrumentation, field microscopy training in Senegal, Brazil, and the United States, and community work supporting children’s literacy.
contact: melanieh[at]kth.se
Affiliated researchers
We collaborate closely with two master students based at the Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute (Swiss TPH), whom Melanie co-supervises.
Jerome Rumdon Lon
Master student
Helminth Research and Medicines group
SwissTPH
Rico Janssen
Master student
Parasite Chemotherapy group
SwissTPH
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