Employment

Novo Nordisk Research Centre

2023 – ongoing: Senior Computational Biologist

Systems Biology for drug-target discovery
The alliance between Novo Nordisk and Oxford aims to establish landmark collaborations for the advancement in research for diabetes and cardiometabolic disease with an aim to work towards innovative medicines that that make a difference in patients' lives.

Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics & Free University of Berlin

2021 – 2022: Postdoctoral Researcher

Single-cell transcriptomics and biological networks
Supervision: Martin Vingron

Imperial College & University of Cambridge

2019 – 2021: Postdoctoral Researcher (Research Associate)

Ageing and Mitochondrial Genetics
Supervision: Nick Jones (Imperial) and Patrick Chinnery (Cambridge)

University of Oxford

2018 – 2019: Postdoctoral Researcher in Network Science

Liver-specific protein interaction networks
Supervision: Charlotte Deane and Gesine Reinert
Research in collaboration with Novo Nordisk
Funding by Novo Nordisk and EPSRC Doctoral Prize

Christ Church, Oxford

2018 – 2019: Stipendiary Lecturer in Mathematics

Tutoring first and second year undergraduate mathematics

Education

University of Oxford

2014 – 2018: DPhil Systems Approaches to Biomedical Science

Topic: Multilayer Networks for the Analysis of Protein Interactions
Supervision: Mason Porter, Charlotte Deane, and Jonny Wray

Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

2012 – 2014: Master of Science in Physics

Specialization: Statistical Physics and Nonlinear Dynamics
Thesis: Characterisation of Individual Nodes in the Mesoscale of Complex Networks
Supervision: Gorka Zamora-López and Jürgen Kurths

University of California at Santa Barbara

2011 – 2012: Fulbright Scholar

Participation in the Education Abroad Programme as Fulbright Scholar
Research with Dani Bassett in the group of Jean Carlson at the UCSB on neuronal networks

Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

2008 – 2012: Bachelor of Science in Physics with Minor in Mathematics

Thesis: Charge transmission through single molecules – A density matrix approach
Supervision: Volkhard May and Beate Röder

Pre-doctoral research experience

University of California at Los Angeles

January–February 2018, April 2017: Visiting Graduate Researcher

Research Visit to the Department of Mathematics
Host: Mason Porter

Hoffmann-La Roche, Basel

Spring 2015: Research Short Project

Hadoop for large-scale eQTL analysis
Supervision: Satu Nahkuri, Christopher Yau, and Peter Humburg

Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research

2013-2014: Academic Visitor

Climate network analysis – Extreme precipitation during the Indian Summer Monsoon
Supervision: Jürgen Kurths

Technical University Berlin

2012-2013: Research Assistant

Analysis and modeling of single neuron train spikes in mice olfactory neurons
Supervision: Timm Lochmann

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Summer 2012: Research Assistant

Network Analysis of neurological networks received from diffusion spectrum imaging
Supervision: Peter J. Mucha