research
My research interest is to develop methods and software that help to understand current questions in biology and evolution. A particular focus are tools to analyze and visualize large scale datasets from different sources, such as high throughput sequencing data, phylogenetic information, and environmental factors.
Ancient Environmental DNA
Since 2024, I am a Senior Postdoc in the Section for GeoGenetics, University of Copenhagen, Denmark. Here, I am working on novel approaches for the taxonomic assignment of metagenomic data, in particular ancient environmental DNA, in order to scale to the full size of modern reference genome databases.
Population Genomics and Pool Sequencing
From 2020 to 2023, I was a Postdoc in the Moi Lab, Carnegie Institution for Science, Stanford, USA. There, I worked on the large-scale distributed Evolve&Resequence GrENE-net project, and developed tools to conduct population genomic analyses for pool-sequencing data.
Phylogenetic Placement
From 2014 to 2020, I conducted my PhD research in the Computational Molecular Evolution (CME) Group, Heidelberg Institute for Theoretical Studies, Germany. There, I devised novel methods for analysing and visualizing metagenomic data in a phylogenetic context, via so-called phylogenetic placement.
