Academic Experience

• 01/2024- Research Group Leader, Department for Computer Vision and Machine Learning
  Max Planck Institute for Informatics

• 08/2022- 12/2023 Postdoctoral fellow, Department of Biostatistics
  Harvard University, T.H. Chan School of Public Health

• 12/2017-07/2022 PhD in Computer Science summa cum laude
  Max Planck Institute for Informatics and Saarland University

• 2015-2017 PhD Preparatory Phase, Graduate School for Computer Science
  Saarland University

• 2015-2017 MSc in Computational Biology with Honors
  Saarland University

• 2012-2015 BSc in Computational Biology
  Saarland University

Reviewing

Conferences

ICML24, AAAI24, NeurIPS23, SDM21 (reviewer)

NeurIPS19, NeurIPS18, SIGKDD18 (external reviewer)

Journals

Journal for Knowledge and Information Systems, IEEE/ACM Transactions on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, Cancer Research

Phase 1 reviewer for ELLIS PhD Program candidates 2022

Visits and Internships

• 04/2022 - 08/2022 Visiting graduate student, Department of Biostatistics
  Harvard University, T.H. Chan School of Public Health

• 09/2016 Intern, Community and Evolution Ecology Group
  Alfred Wegner Institute, Helmholtz Center for Polar and Marine Research

• 05/2012 - 06/2012 Intern, Hematology Lab
  Bioscientia Institute for Medical Diagnostics

Honors and Awards

Scholarship of the International Max Planck Research School

Honor’s Degree, Master of Science in Computational Biology

Scholarship of the Graduate School of Computer Science, Saarland University