This site serves as an overview about my research. I studied Computer Science at the RWTH Aachen and graduated in 2005 with a work in the field of spoken language recognition at the Chair for Computer Science 6 . After that I pursued my PhD studies in Saarbrücken at the Max Planck Institute for Informatics in the Computational Biology group of Thomas Lengauer. From February 2010 till May 2012 I was a Postdoctoral researcher in the Statistical Genetics Group headed by Bertram Müller-Myhsok at the Max Planck
You can find results of my research here in the form of Publications , Posters and Software .
My research focuses on understanding how molecular biology shapes brain function in healthy and diseased brains. In the healthy brain I aim at answering questions such as “Which genes are responsible for variations in neural activity in the resting brain?” whereas in the diseased brain I want to understand which processes are causing severe malfunctions leading to neuropsychiatric and neurodegenerative disorders such as Major Depressive Disorder and Alzheimer’s disease. My goal is to understand the molecula