Our lab specializes on the role of the adaptive immune system for tissue regeneration and wound healing, and we want to understand the impact of this antigen-specific repair system on tumor development and progression. In this endeavor, we bridge both highly advanced experimental procedures (tissue processing, high-dimensional cell sorting of rare populations, single cell gene expression or chromatin accessibility) with high-performance computational analysis. We are interested in developing mathematical models that describe immune and non-immune networks in blood and tissues, and identify key drivers of network perturbations in patients suffering from autoimmune or other diseases.

Positions held 

Since 2021   
Professor, Institute for Immunology, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Germany

2018 - 2021   
Postdoctoral Fellow, Institute of Immunology, Leibnitz Center for Immunotherapy, Regensburg, Germany

2016 - 2017   
Postdoctoral Fellow, Institute of Tumor Immunology, German Cancer Research Center Heidelberg, Germany

2014   
Visiting PhD student, The Weizmann Institute of Science, Department of Immunology, Rehovot, Israel

2011 - 2012   
Junior Research Fellow, Stanford University School of Medicine, Department of Pathology, Stanford, USA

2009 - 2010   
Junior Research Fellow, BN ImmunoTherapeutics, Inc., Human Immune Monitoring Group, Mountain View, USA

Education

2006 - 2010   
Pharmaceutical Biotechnology, Bachelor of Science, Biberach University of Applied Sciences, Germany

2010 - 2012   
Molecular Medicine, Master of Science, Ulm University, Germany

2012 - 2016   
Cancer Biology, Dr. rer. nat., German Cancer Research Center Heidelberg, Institute of Tumor Immunology, and Ruperto Carola University of Heidelberg, Germany