Biography
I am a bioinformatician specializing in single-cell data integration. Based at the Cardio-Pulmonary Institute (CPI) and the Max Planck Institute for Heart and Lung Research (MPI-BN) in Germany, I build reproducible lung cell atlases — integrating single-cell and spatial transcriptomes across cohorts and platforms — to decode the cellular and molecular mechanisms of lung aging, COPD, and IPF.
My work spans single-cell and spatial transcriptomics, with ongoing projects in lung cell atlas construction and spatial lung cancer profiling. I am also involved in the DZL DataLung School, contributing to data science education in the pulmonary research community.
Technically, I work primarily in Linux, R and Python, with expertise in Seurat, Monocle, Slingshot, and Harmony — building reproducible pipelines for large-scale multi-dataset integration, trajectory inference, and differential expression analysis.
I am passionate about translating high-dimensional omics data into biological insight — and ultimately, into a better understanding of how lungs age and fail.
I hold concurrent Research Scientist appointments at CPI, MPI-BN, Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen (JLU), the German Center for Lung Research (DZL), and the Institute for Lung Health (ILH), and am enrolled in the IMPRS-MOB structured PhD program, working under the supervision of Prof. Soni Savai Pullamsetti.