Research Interests:     My research revolves around computational genomics — methodologically and applied. For instance, I am interested in identifying molecular pre-images of human specific traits in the non-coding part of our genome. Other projects that I am involved in include the transcriptional profiling of stem cells, the reconstruction of hierarchies from perturbation experiments and computational diagnostics with microarrays.

Short Vita:     Before joining Katie Pollard's lab at UC Davis in August 2007 I worked first as a PhD student and then as a postdoc at the Computational Molecular Biology Department of the Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics in Berlin, Germany. I received my PhD in December 2006 from the Free University in Berlin, and a Diploma (~Masters degree) in Physics from the University of Heidelberg in May 2002.