About me
I am a researcher and team lead at the Genome Competence Center of the Robert Koch Institute in Berlin, Germany. We study infectious diseases in a One Health context by applying real-time nanopore sequencing, pangenomics approaches, analyzing environmental samples such as wastewater, and studying microbial evolution using bioinformatics for genomic surveillance.
I studied Bioinformatics at the University of Jena, Germany (FSU) and achieved my PhD by specializing in RNA Bioinformatics and High-Throughput Analysis. Following this, I moved to the European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI), Hinxton (UK) to work in Microbiome Informatics. Since 2020, I have continued my academic journey at the RKI in Berlin, the national institute for public health in Germany, conducting research with my team and (inter)national colleagues in the following areas:
Research interests
- Microbial bioinformatics
- Genomic surveillance
- Pathogen detection and characterization
- Nanopore real-time sequencing
- Transcriptomics and gene expression
- Metagenomics and metatranscriptomics
- Reproducible genomics (container, WMS)
