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Education

  • 2023 - now
    PhD, Computational Biology
    Technical University of Munich, Munich, Germany
    • Improving and scaling deep (self-)supervised models of the gene regulatory code
  • 2020 - 2023
    MSc, Informatics
    Technical University of Munich, Munich, Germany
    • Master thesis: Self-supervised learning for mass spectrometry
  • 2015 - 2019
    BSc, Informatics
    Technical University of Munich, Munich, Germany
    • Bachelor thesis : Generative models for protein folding

Experience

  • 2023 - now
    Research associate
    Computational Molecular Medicine, Technical University of Munich, Munich, Germany
  • 2019 - 2020
    Data Engineering Intern, Research Scientist Intern
    Robert Bosch GmbH, Stuttgart, Germany

Presentations

  • 2025
    • Scooby, Probabilistic Modeling in Genomics, CSHL, talk
    • Scooby and Flashzoi, Aerts lab, KU Leuven, invited talk
  • 2024
    • scooby: Sequence-to-function modeling at single-cell resolution, Kundaje lab, Stanford University, online talk
    • Species LMs and nucleotide dependencies, Buenrostro lab, Harvard University, talk
    • Species LM, EMBL Symposium: AI and biology, Heidelberg, poster
  • 2023
    • Species-aware DNA language models, Kipoi Summit, talk
    • Species LMs, ISMB, Lyon, poster
  • 2022
    • Deep learning-based guided mutations improve de novo sequencing, ISMB, Madison, poster

Interests

Languages English, German, French
Hobbies skiing, chess, tennis, biking, hiking