I completed my PhD studies in Biophysics (2002) at the Humboldt University at Berlin. I have previously received two degrees in Nonlinear Dynamics Science (MSc, 1995) from University College London and in the fields of Physics (Diploma, 1997) from Humboldt-University at Berlin.

My research interests lie in Computational Molecular Biology, an area perhaps covered by Theoretical Biology and Theoretical Physics, Statistics, Information Theory, or Scientific Programming.

I worked for a year at the Institute for Theoretical Biology, after which I decided to start working towards a degree in the fields of Computational Molecular Biology. At that time I was working on a problem in statistical pattern recognition, namely the distiction between exon-intron from raw DNA sequence data. Sure enough, this has been right up my street ever since. What's more, I learned a lot about molecular biology, and it has become so severe that I changed from physics towards biology. Though, a lot of model building is going to enter my new fields of research, too.

More recently, then, I find the highly parallel data accquisition on DNA microarrays and analysis of gene expression data aimed at revealing cellular strategies exciting. I try to come up with methods coping with these aquired data sets. My PhD work is carried out at the Theoretical Biophysics Group. In this field, I conduct studies concerning the following topics: structural composition and organization of DNA sequences, expressed regions (coding DNA/ORFs) and intra- and intergenetic regions, pre-processing, modelling, and classification of gene expression profiles.

In Fall 2000, I became Graduate Fellow at the Institute for Pure and Applied Mathematics, IPAM, where I experienced a three-months period filled with lectures, discussions, work, seminars, workshops, and conferences centered around Functional Genomics, or more to the point gene expression analysis. I exploit this stay to met up with other like-minded people, and also to explore Los Angeles and the countryside of California.

With end of July, I joined the Computational Biology Lab headed by Christopher Burge, at MIT Department of Biology to pursue postdoctoral research.

GK	Dynamics Evolution

Apart from these sites, I administered until end of July 2002 the websites of the Graduate Programme (DFG-GK 268) "Dynamics and Evolution of Cellular and Macromolecular Processes", created a new design for the GK World-wide web representation, and came up with the logo of the Graduate Programme.