CV

EMBO Postdoctoral Fellow

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

• Developed a minimal model which explains how the internal organization of the nucleolus—crucial for the assembly of ribosomes—is controlled by the active transcription of ribosomal RNA.
• Developed a systems medicine model to study how innate immunity controls the immune response and reallocates host resources upon infection.

Postdoctoral Associate

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

• Developed an analytical theory to study the spatiotemporal organization of active polymers such as chromatin in the cell nucleus.
• Investigated the function and organization of biomolecular condensates during gene transcription.

Research Assistant

Ludwig-Maximilian-University of Munich

• Investigated biomolecular condensate dynamics using analytical theory and finite-element simulations.

QBM Graduate Fellow

Ludwig-Maximilian-University of Munich

• Investigated how biomolecular patterns, cells, and tissues respond to mechanical stimuli in a variety of model systems.
• Analyzed experimental data and trained convolutional neural networks for cell segmentation.

Research Assistant and PhD Student

Ludwig-Maximilian-University of Munich

• Investigated solitary and collective cell dynamics on soft and rigid substrates.

Doctor of Natural Sciences

Ludwig-Maximilian-University of Munich

Physics

Master of Science

Ludwig-Maximilian-University of Munich

Physics

Bachelor of Science

Ludwig-Maximilian-University of Munich

Physics

Arnold Sommerfeld PhD Prize

Arnold Sommerfeld Center for Theoretical Physics at the Ludwig-Maximilian-University of Munich

Two Arnold-Sommerfeld prizes will be awarded each year for the best PhD theses of the previous year. Prerequisite for receiving the prize is a graduation grade of 'Summa cum laude'.