Paper 'scSSL-Bench: Benchmarking Self-Supervised Learning for Single-Cell Data' accepted at ICML 2025 as a spotlight; CancerFoundation accepted at the AIDrugX workshop at Neurips; First (co-)last author paper with Philip Toma and Olga Ovcharenko on benchmarking SSL methods for single-cell data also accepted at the SSL workshop; Will attend the first scverse conference in Munich and present scTree as a poster; Marco Baumann's thesis 'scDIVA: Towards Domain Invariant Reference-Query Mapping' also accepted as a poster; scTree received a spotlight at the AccMLBio workshop and was accepted at the SPIGM workshop at ICML in Vienna; CanSig selected as a contributed talk at the Single cell, systems biology and data analytics approaches conference in Freiburg and Leander Diaz-Bone’s thesis accepted as a poster.
Research Experience
Worked as a research intern at the German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ) on optimization problems in radiation therapy and at the German Climate Computing Center (DKRZ) developing tools for climate simulations.
Education
Master’s degree in Data Science from ETH Zürich; Bachelor degrees in Mathematics and International Economics from the University of Tübingen.
Background
PhD student in the Boeva Lab at ETH Zürich. Research interests lie at the intersection of single cell foundation models, representation learning, and cancer biology.