Curriculum

• Postdoctoral Fellow
  National Center for Genomic Analysis
  (CNAG), Barcelona, Spain (Sept. 2023+)
  • In the group of H. Heyn (Single Cell Genomics)
• Postdoctoral Fellow
  University of Zurich, Switzerland (June-Aug. 2023)
  • In the group of M. D. Robinson (Statistical Bioinformatics)
• Bioinformatics consultant
  University of Kansas, USA (Apr.-July ’23)
  • methods and workflow deelopment for bulk RNA-seq data analysis in the context of sex-chromosome dosage compensation
• Bioconductor Technical Advisory board
  Bioconductor project (2023+)
  • Concerned with the project’s long-term technical and scientific viability and suitability
• Bioinformatics consultant
  EMBL Heidelberg, Germany (Aug.-Nov. ’22)
  • “Modern Statistics for Modern Biologists” by W. Huber (EMBL Heidelberg, Germany) and S. Holmes (Stanford University, USA) textbook conversion to the Quarto publishing system
• Bioconductor package reviewer
  Bioconductor project (2021+)
  • Voluntary assistance with the review of newly submitted packages
• Research Assistant
  University of Zurich, Switzerland (2016-2018)
  • In the group of M. D. Robinson (Statistical Bioinformatics)

Education

• PhD in Epidemiology & Biostatistics
  University of Zurich, Switzerland (2018-2023)
  • In the group of M. D. Robinson (Statistical Bioinformatics)
  • Thesis on ‘Computational methods development and benchmarking for single-cell and spatially resolved omics data’
  • Awarded with distinction by the Faculty of Science
• MSc in Computation Biology & Bioinformatics
  ETH Zurich, Switzerland (2015-2018)
  • In the group of M. D. Robinson (Statistical Bioinformatics)
  • Thesis on ‘Differential analysis for scRNA‑seq data with complex experimental designs’
• BSc in Biochemistry
  University of Heidelberg, Germany (2012-2015)
  • In the group of T. Höfer (Modeling of Biological Systems)
  • Thesis ‘On the determinism behind neuroblastoma cell cycle dynamics’
• Abitur at Heisenberg-Gymnasium, Germany (2005-2012)
  • GPA of 1.1 (scale from 1 = best to 6 = worst, 1 – 4 are a pass)
  • Graduated with distinction in Chemistry, Mathematics, and overall grade

Honors

• PhD distinction
  Awarded by The Faculty of Science (MNF)
  for “exceptional doctotal theses” (2020)

• Bioconductor community award
  “For outstanding contributions to the Bioconductor project and community” (2020)

Funding

• SNSF Postdoc.Mobility
  National Center for Genomic Analysis
  (CNAG), Barcelona, Spain (Sept. 2023+)
  • Postdoc in the group of H. Heyn (Single Cell Genomics)
• SNSF Doc.Mobility
  National Center for Genomic Analysis
  (CNAG), Barcelona, Spain (2021-2022)
  • Visiting student in the group of H. Heyn (Single Cell Genomics)
• Erasmus scholarship
  Imperial College London, UK (2014-2015)
  • Research internship in the group of M. Stumpf (Theoretical Systems Biology)
• RISE grant
  Pennsylvania State University, USA (2014)
  • Research internship in the group of D. D. Boehr (Department of Chemistry)

Teaching

• Biological Data Science Summer School
  Uzhhorod, Ukraine (July 2023 & 2024)
  BDS^3

• Joint SIB / SciLifeLab Autumn School
  Leysin, Switzerland (Oct. 2019)
  Single Cell Analysis

• Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics
  Zurich, Switzerland (May 2019)
  Introduction to R Shiny

• Teaching assistant
  Zurich, Switzerland (2019-2021)

  • Programming in Biology (BIO134)
  • Practical Bioinformatics (BIO334)
  • Statistical Analysis of High‐Throughput
    Genomic & Transcriptomic Data (STA426)