Who Is This Guy?
I’m a PhD student at the University of Cambridge and the European Bioinformatics Institute. My adviser is Alvis Brazma.
Currently I’m working on methods to visualize and explore large gene expression data sets that have been annotated with various types of meta information. I’m also investigating how established bodies of knowledge such as ontologies can be used to enhance the exploration process. To keep my feet on the ground I’m involved in a collaboration with Addenbrooke’s Hospital and working on a project that uses microarray data and clinical data to classify auto-immune diseases on the molecular level.
Before coming to Cambridge I studied bioinformatics at the University of Tübingen and at the University of Washington in Seattle. For most of my time as an undergraduate I worked as a research assistant in the Proteomics Algorithms and Simulation group at the Center for Bioinformatics in Tübingen. There I developed large parts of Mayday, a microarray data analysis workbench. Partly for my master’s thesis and partly for my own entertainment I spent a year researching data integration and visualization for proteomics mass spectrometry data at the Institute for Systems Biology in Seattle.
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