About

I’m a physician in hematology and oncology, a computational biologist, and a researcher in machine learning for biomedicine. As a resident at TUM University Hospital with Florian Bassermann, I diagnose and treat patients with blood cancers and solid tumors. As a PhD student with Fabian Theis and Daniel Rückert at Helmholtz Munich and the Technical University of Munich, I develop machine learning models for biomedical research. With Malte Luecken, I build multimodal and spatially resolved single-cell atlases within the Human Cell Atlas project, with a focus on clinical applications.

My path began in experimental research: cellular therapies at LMU Munich, followed by cancer and HIV immunology at Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School. Performing single-cell omics experiments sparked my interest in computational approaches and led me to a master’s in Computational Biology at the University of Cambridge. For my master’s thesis, I studied allogeneic stem cell transplantation biology at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard. Today, the clinic shows me which questions matter, and computation and machine learning give me the tools to pursue answers.