My lab is elucidating how dynamic self-organisation shapes cellular processes in health and disease. To unravel how the self-organization of molecules shapes cells, my lab employs multi-scale simulations. A current focus of my research is unraveling the interplay between phase separation in healthy cells and aggregation in neurodegenerative diseases. Our research is highly interdisciplinary, at the intersection of biology, physics, and chemistry. As part of IQCB we are excited about developing increasingly comprehensive quantitative models of cellular biology. 

Positions held

Since 2020  
ReALity Junior Group Leader and IMB Associate Group Leader, Faculty of Biology and KOMET1, Institute of Physics, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz and Institute of Molecular Biology (IMB), Mainz, Germany

2015 - 2020 
Postdoctoral fellow, Department of Theoretical Biophysics, Max Planck Institute of Biophysics, Frankfurt am Main, Germany

Education

2015 
DPhil in Biochemistry, University of Oxford, UK

2010 
MBiochem, Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry, University of Oxford, UK