Who we are
We are a hetereogeneous and dynamic team of scientists with a variety of different backgrounds in computer science, biology, physics, biotechnology, mathematics, medicine and more. We all share a common passion for computational biology and the analysis of complex data. Sounds like you?

Group Leader
Prof. Dr. Roland F. Schwarz
Computer scientist by training. Lover of formal grammars, Markov models and phylogenetic trees.
Quote: "What if it's a Markov chain?"

PhD Student
Maja-Celine Stöber
Biomathematician. Fond of single-cell data analysis and extrachromosomal DNA. Master of Journal Club.
Quote: "No, Roland, you cannot skip Journal Club."

Postdoc / Scientific Programmer
Dr. Adam Streck
Computer scientist by training. Modelling the world through cellular automata and stochastic processes. Gamer at heart, living the VR hype. Author of SMITH. Master of Technology.

Clinician Scientist
Dr. Daniel Schütte
Medical doctor and computer scientist. Improving patient care through early detection and better stratification.

MD Student
Felix Schifferdecker
Medical student and computer scientist. Simulating cancer evolution and structural alterations.

MD Student
Selina Wächter
Medical student. Investigating how selectional constraints shape cancer evolution.

Research Associate
Teodora Bucaciuc
Biologist and Bioinformatician by training. Interested in genomics and the co-evolution of genome and epigenome. Master of Events.

Postdoc
Dr. Cody Duncan
Physicist by training. Interested in simulation-building and stochastic processes. In-house Rugby League expert. Master of Technology Cologne.

Postdoc
Dr. Nathan Lee
Applied mathematician & computational biologist. Interested in cancer evolution, stochastic processes, and simulations of carcinogenesis.

PhD Student
Claudia Robens
Biotechnologist by training. Investigating chromosomal instability and chromatin architecture in cancer.

PhD Student
Katyayni Ganesan
Biologist by training. Interested in single-cell cancer evolution and transcriptomics.

Postdoc / Scientific Coordinator
Dr. Laura Godfrey
Biologist by training. Interested in epigenetics and -genomics.
Additionally, scientific coordination, third party funding, web editor.
Visitors

Visiting Scientist
Dr. Tom Watkins
Physician by training. Chromosomal instability and somatic copy-number alterations.
From the Swanton lab, Francis Crick Institute, London.

Visiting Scientist
Dr. Kerstin Haase
Bioinformatician by training. Interested in tumour heterogeneity and somatic copy-number alterations.
From the Jamal-Hanjani lab, Institute of Cancer Research, London.

Lab mascot
Quark
Fierce winged unicorn. Destroyer of bugs. Defender of students. Do not mess with Quark.
Quote: "No, I'm not a pegacorn."
Alumni

Former Intern
Elisa Billard
Life Science Engineer. Investigated how to improve subclone detection in tumour sequencing data.
Now Master student at EPFL Lausanne.

Former PhD Student
Dr. Maria Stella de Biase
Biotechnologist by training. Early detection and risk stratification of cancer. Heroine of gene regulation.

Former PhD Student
Marina Petkovic
Physicist by training. Algorithms for copy-number evolution. Developer of MEDICC2.
Now research scientist at the Relogio lab, Charite Berlin.
Quote: "So..."

Former PhD Student
Dr. Julia Markowski
Biologist and Bioinformatician. Lover of chromatin structure and graph-theoretical algorithms. Author of GAMIBHEAR.
Now postdoc in the Park lab at Harvard Medical School.
Quote: "Well, that's complicated..."

Former Master student
Victoria M. Dombrowe
Knower of Molecular Medicine, mapped the epigenome and its evolution.

Former PhD Student
Dr. Martin Burkert
Bioinformatician. Copy-number dosage effects in Neuroblastoma. Shared with AG Ohler, MDC-BIMSB, Berlin.
Now postdoc at the Waszak lab at NCMM, University of Oslo, Norway.

Former Postdoc
Dr. Florian Massip
Mathematician. Statistical genetics for germline gene regulation and cancer risk.
Now Principal Investigator at Institute Curie, Paris, France.

Former Postdoc
Dr. Matthew Huska
Computer Scientist. Copy-number phasing and detection. Developer of refphase.
Now postdoc at Robert-Koch-Institute, Berlin, Germany.