Outreach
Besides working as a scientist, I enjoy serving people and communities by sharing knowledge, and learning from them in turn.
Consultant and board member
I serve from time to time as an independent consultant for international and national agencies, universities, research institutes, and companies. My responsibilities in these roles include reviewing project proposals, allocating resources, and recruiting senior staff. My focus area include computational biology, translational research, and drug discovery and development.
Contact me if you are interested in engaging me as an independent consultant, expert, or board member. References are available upon request.
Mentoring and coaching
I work closely and regularly with junior researchers, including apprentices of Berufsausbildung, bachelor, master and PhD students, as well as postdoc researchers.
My responsibility includes
- supervision of Berufsausbildung (professional development) apprentices,
- supervision of internships of bachelor, master, and PhD students,
- mentoring projects and theses,
- consulting personal and professional development,
- organizing teamwork in computational biology and its application in drug discovery.
References are available upon request.
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Teaching
Applied Mathematics and Informatics in Drug Discovery (AMIDD)
In autumn semesters, I teach a undergraduate-level course series, Applied Mathematics and Informatics in Drug Discovery (AMIDD), at the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Basel. Check out the material of Applied Mathematics and Informatics In Drug Discovery on its website AMIDD.ch.
Mathematical and Computational Biology in Drug Discovery (MCBDD)
In spring semesters, I teach an advanced course series, Mathematical and Computational Biology in Drug Discovery (MCBDD) as a follow-up course of AMIDD. Its material can be found on the course’s website MCBDD.ch.
Other courses
In spring semesters, I teach one lecture of the course series From Novel Targets to Novel Therapeutics on topics of computational biology and multiscale modelling at the Department of Pharmacy, University of Basel.
I have organized Python courses Python@Library for secondary-school students in Basel in GGG Library, together with computer science apprentices of Roche. The first edition took place in 2024.
Public talks
I regularly talks to other experts in drug discovery, general public and students. Most of these talks are about computational biology, applied mathematics and informatics, and drug discovery. Below is a selection. If you are in interested in inviting me for a talk, please contact me. References are available upon request.
2025
- Target half-life and PKPD-considerations, co-presenting with Neil John Parrott, Focusing on Targeted Covalent Drugs: how to best identify and develop TCIs, DMDG Meeting, Basel, Switzerland, April 2025. DMDG is an informal world-wide association for scientists engaged in research and development within the drug metabolism, pharmacokinetics and related disciplines of the pharmaceutical industry.
2024
- Towards intelligent benefit-risk assessment of drug candidates, Swiss Society of Pharmacology and Toxicology (SSPT) Spring Meeting 2024, Bern, Switzerland, April 2024.
2023
- Finding hope in a hopeless time - How Predictive Modeling and Data Analytics shifts our perspectives about antimicrobial discovery. Invited talk at the pre-conference workshop Promise of artificial intelligence to antibacterial drug discovery, 7th AMR Conference, Basel, Switzerland, March 2023. Homepage of the workshop was hosted by the REVIVE outreach activity of GARDP (Global Antibiotic Research & Development Partnership). And the recording is available on YouTube.
2022
- Towards causal modelling of drug-induced toxicity for preclinical to clinical translation, the Third In Silico Toxicology meeting, organized by Prof. Andreas Bender, September 2022, YouTube Stream.
2021
- Optimization of the TeraTox assay for preclinical teratogenicity assessment, co-presentation with Manuela Jaklin, OpenTox Virtual Conference 2021
- Ten simple rules for doing a postdoc in Pharma, BC2 Basel Computational Biology Conference 2021, Basel, Switzerland
2019
- Working Fields in Pharmaceutical Industry, 2019, the Graduate School of Pharmacy, University of Freiburg, Germany.
- ISMB/ECCB 2019, Basel, Swizterland. Bioinformatics and exploratory data analysis in drug discovery: an industrial perspective
2018
- OpenTox Swiss Chapter Meeting, Basel, Switzerland, 2018
- Speaker profile on the meeting’s website
- Presentation slides: Multiscale Modelling of Preclinical Drug Safety
- Workshop Insight China, 2018, University of Applied Sciences and Arts Northwestern Switzerland (FHNW), Liestal, Switzerland.
- Presentation slides: Drug Discovery, Roche, and China: Some Personal Reflections
- Perlen-Kolloquium, 2018, University of Basel, Switzerland.
- Event webpage
- Presentation slides: Mathematics in drug discovery: a practitioner’s view