My research group is actively involved in the development of analytical methods and applications for the analysis of biomedical data with a focus on gaining insights into disease-related genetic and epigenetic mechanisms. Here, we address, for example, sex-specific methylation detection using nanopore sequencing, automated identification of RNA modifications using machine learning, real-time transcriptional analysis, chromatin conformational capture analysis, and the study of the epigenetic basis of resilience.

Positions held

Since 2020  
W2 Professorship "Clinical Genomics and Bioinformatics", Institute of Human Genetics, University Medical Center, Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz, Germany

Since 2016  
Research Group Leader of the Computational Systems Genomics Group, Institute of Human Genetics, University Medical Center, Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz, Germany

2016 - 2020   
W1 Juniorprofessor for Bioinformatics and Junior Group Leader, Faculty of Biology, Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz

2011 - 2015   
PostDoc at the Faculty of Informatics, Institute of Computational Science, Universita della Svizzera italiana, Lugano, Switzerland

Education

2011   
Dr. rer. nat. in Biophysics, Humboldt University of Berlin, Germany

2007  
MSc in Bioinformatics, Free University of Berlin and Konrad Zuse-Institute for Scientific Computing (ZIB), Berlin, Germany

2004  
BSc in Bioinformatics, Free University of Berlin and Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics, Berlin, Germany