Dr. Sebastian Isbaner

Sebastian studied physics at Heidelberg University and earned his doctorate at Göttingen University with a thesis on new methods in fluorescence microscopy. During his time as a postdoctoral researcher with Nivedita Mani at Göttingen University, he developed a dyadic interaction platform for children. He works at HuCaB as a lab developer on the development of new experimental platforms and studies.

CV

• 2025 – current Lab developer, Georg-Elias-Müller-Institute of Psychology, University of Göttingen
• 2022 – 2025 Postdoc with Nivedita Mani, Department Psychology of Language, University of Göttingen
• 2020 – 2021 Postdoc, Research Institute of Molecular Pathology, Vienna
• 2015 – 2019 PhD in Physics with Jörg Enderlein, International Max Planck Research School “Physics of Biological and Complex Systems” (IMPRS-PBCS), University of Göttingen
• 2008 – 2014 MSc. in Physics, Heidelberg University

Selected Publications

Bothe*, R., Isbaner*, S., Chen, X., Venkatesan, S., Kagan, I., Gail, A., & Mani, N. (2026). Little Scientists & Social Apprentices: Active Word Learning in Dynamic Social Contexts Using a Transparent Dyadic Interaction Platform. Social Development, 35(1), e70046. https://doi.org/10.1111/sode.70046

Isbaner, S., Báez-Mendoza, R., Bothe, R., Eiteljoerge, S., Fischer, A., Gail, A., Gläscher, J., Lueschen, H., Möller, S., Penke, L., Priesemann, V., Ruß, J., Schacht, A., Schneider, F., Shahidi, N., Treue, S., Wibral, M., Ziereis, A., Fischer, J., … Mani, N. (2025). Dyadic Interaction Platform: A novel tool to study transparent social interactions. eLife, 14. https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.106757.1

Hauke*, L., Isbaner*, S., Ghosh*, A., Guido, I., Turco, L., Chizhik, A. I., Gregor, I., Karedla, N., Rehfeldt, F., & Enderlein, J. (2023). Metal-Induced Energy Transfer (MIET) for Live-Cell Imaging with Fluorescent Proteins. ACS Nano. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsnano.2c12372

Isbaner, S., Karedla, N., Kaminska, I., Ruhlandt, D., Raab, M., Bohlen, J., Chizhik, A., Gregor, I., Tinnefeld, P., Enderlein, J., & Tsukanov, R. (2018). Axial Colocalization of Single Molecules with Nanometer Accuracy Using Metal-Induced Energy Transfer. Nano Letters, 18(4), 2616–2622. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.nanolett.8b00425

Qin*, S., Isbaner, S.*, Gregor, I., & Enderlein, J. (2020). Doubling the resolution of a confocal spinning-disk microscope using image scanning microscopy. Nature Protocols, 1–18. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41596-020-00408-x

*) contributed equally