My area of research is network biology and I am particularly interested in the integration, analysis and visualization of omics data towards a more comprehensive understanding of human diseases. Furthermore, I have been actively involved in the development and maintenance of our group resources, in particular, the stringApp for Cytoscape. I also enjoy teaching about network biology methods and tools at various educational levels. 

Current position

05/2020–present: Assistant Professor at the NNF Center for Protein Research at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark

Previous positions

• 05/2016–05/2020: PostDoc researcher at the NNF Center for Protein Research and at the Center for non-coding RNA in Technology and Health at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark
• 01/2010–05/2016: Research scientist in the Department for Computational Biology and Applied Algorithmics at the Max Planck Institute for Informatics, Germany
• 03/2013–05/2013: Research scientist in the Resource on Biocomputing, Visualization, and Informatics at the University of California, San Francisco, USA

Education

• PhD (Dr. rer. nat), Max Planck Institute for Informatics and Saarland University, Germany (June 2016)
• Masters (M. Sc.) in Bioinformatics, Saarland University, Germany (Nov 2009)
• Bachelor (B.S.) in Computational Molecular Biology, Saarland University, Germany (Oct 2007)

Research Awards

• Conference travel fellowship for ISMB/ECCB 2015
• BioVis 2013 data contest overall favorite (IEEE BioVis 2013, Atlanta, US)
• Travel grant of the Boehringer Ingelheim Fonds for a 3-month research visit at UCSF, USA (March - May 2013)
• Conference travel fellowships for VIZBI 2010
• Conference travel fellowships for ECCB10

Teaching

• Bioinformatics and Systems Biology, MSc Human Biology, University of Copenhagen, Denmark (yearly since 2016)
• Bioinformatics analysis of gene expression data, PhD course, University of Copenhagen, Denmark (yearly since 2019)
• Translational Discovery Omics II, BRIDGE PostDoc course, University of Copenhagen, Denmark (yearly since 2021)
• Cytoscape/STRING Workshops, PhD/PostDoc level, at different universities in Denmark (yearly since 2017)
• Big Data Analytics and Machine Learning I, BRIDGE PostDoc course, University of Copenhagen, Denmark (yearly in 2019-2020)
• EMBO Practical Course on Computational analysis of protein-protein interactions, PhD/PostDoc course, different locations (yearly 2011-2019)

Network biology, Computational Proteomics, Medical bioinformatics, Structural biology