Florian Barkmann
Scholar

Florian Barkmann

Google Scholar ID: THr6C8kAAAAJ
ETH Zürich
CancerscRNA-seqMLRepresentation learningFoundation Models
Citations & Impact
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Citations
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H-index
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i10-index
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Publications
9
 
Co-authors
5
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Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
  • 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.