I am a postdoctoral researcher in the Schwarz Lab at the Institute for Computational Cancer Biology at the University of Cologne and the Berlin Institute for the Foundations of Learning and Data @ the Technical University of Berlin. I am an applied mathematician by training and use computational and mathematical methods to investigate cancer evolution. My research interests include cancer evolution, stochastic processes, and simulations of carcinogenesis.

Education

• PhD in Applied Mathematics, University of Washington, 2022, advisor: Ivana Bozic.
• MS in Applied Mathematics, University of Washington, 2018
• BS in Applied Mathematics and Statistics & Molecular and Cellular Biology, Johns Hopkins University, 2016

News highlights

• My paper on the clonal dynamics of resistance to targeted therapies in chronic lymphocytic leukemia patients was published in Haematologica!
• My first-author review paper on clonal interactions in cancer with Kamran Kaveh and Ivana Bozic published in Seminars in Cancer Biology! (Apr 2023)
• Defended my PhD! (Dec 2022)
• Featured cover artwork for issue 236 of “This Week in Mathematical Oncology” newsletter (Dec 2022)
• My first-author paper on inferring parameters of cancer evolution in chronic lymphocytic leukemia published in PLoS Computational Biology! (Nov 2022)
• Received the Mathematical Oncology Poster Prize at the Society for Mathematical Biology 2021 Annual Meeting (June 2021) [tweet]