Senior Computational Biologist
Novo Nordisk Research Centre Oxford
Innovation Building
Old Road Campus
University of Oxford

My research interests are the application of network theory and other mathematical & computational methods on real world data sets, especially in the context of systems biology. More specific research topics include

• network topology and analysis
• community detection & statistical inference in networks
• multilayer networks for integrative data analysis
• computational neuroscience
• topological data analysis (e.g., persistent homology)
• protein interaction networks
• single-cell transcriptomics
• mitochondrial biology & diseases

Currently, I am member of the Systems Biology & Target Discovery Department (led by Robert Kitchen) at the Novo Nordisk Research Centre at the University of Oxford, where I research on the use of graph-based machine learning and functional genomics for drug-target discovery. At the same time, I am remaining a visiting scholar at the Max-Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics in Berlin.

Before, I held postdoctoral positions at the Max-Planck Institute for Molecuar Genetics (with Martin Vingron), Imperial College London (with Nick Jones), at the University of Cambridge (with Patrick Chinnery), and the University of Oxford (with Gesine Reinert and Charlotte Deane).

In 2018, I received a DPhil (PhD) in Systems Approaches to Biomedical Sciences from the University of Oxford. During my doctoral studies, I was supervised by Mason Porter (UCLA), Charlotte Deane (Statistics, University Oxford), Jonny Wray (e-Therapeutics), and Philip Maini (Mathematics, University of Oxford).

Before that, I studied physics at the Humboldt University of Berlin and as a Fulbright Scholar at the University of California at Santa Barbara, where I researched under the supervision of Danielle Bassett and Peter Mucha.

Email: f.klimm@gmail.com

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Academic CV (14/10/2024)