Short Bio

 
Since 2010 Postdoc in Peer Bork's group at EMBL, Heidelberg, Germany.

2006 - 2010 PhD studies both in Gunnar Rätsch's group and Detlef Weigel's lab on the Max Planck Campus, Tübingen, Germany.

2003 - 2004 Undergraduate studies in biology and computer science at Uppsala University, Sweden.

2000 - 2006 Undergraduate training as a computational biologist at Tübingen University from which I earned a Diplom in Bioinformatics (Master's equivalent). There, I also worked as a student researcher in Daniel Huson's group.

Mentoring

 
Regina Bohnert
(supervisor: Gunnar Rätsch)
Diplom
(~ Master)
Array-based resequencing of rice varieties (see McNally et al., PNAS, 2009)

Johannes Eichner
(supervisor: Gunnar Rätsch)
Diplom
(~ Master)
Detection of alternative splicing events from tiling array data (see Eichner et al., BMC Bioinf. 2011)

Lucas Brouwers
(supervisor: Peer Pork)
Master Network analysis of drug side effects (see Brouwers et al. PLoS One, 2011)

Murat Iskar
(supervisor: Peer Pork)
PhD Characterization of drugs and gene networks from transcriptional read-outs (see Iskar et al. Curr. Opin. Biotechnol., 2012, Iskar et al. Mol. Syst. Biol., 2013)

Fernando Iglesias Google
Summer of Code
Integration of Hidden Markov SVMs (GSoC 2012 co-mentoring with Nico Görnitz) and large-margin distance learning for nearest neighbor classification (LMNN, GSoC 2013) into the Shogun Machine Learning Toolbox

Nico Görnitz
(supervisors: Klaus-Robert Müller and Gunnar Rätsch)
PhD Structured output learning methods for transcript reconstruction (see Görnitz et al., NIPS, 2011)

Community services

 
Reviewer for Bioinformatics, PLoS One, Genome Research (with Peer Bork)