People

I am fascinated by people.

I enjoy connecting with people by sharing my limited knowledge and learning from them in turn.

• Supervision and mentoring
• Giving public talks
• Serving as independent expert and board member
• Teaching

Supervision and mentoring

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,
• 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.

If you consider doing a postdoc in Pharma, these Ten Simple Rules might be useful.

Giving public talks

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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.

• Towards intelligent benefit-risk assessment of drug candidates, Swiss Society of Pharmacology and Toxicology (SSPT) Spring Meeting 2024, Bern, Switzerland, April 2024.
• 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, hosted by the REVIVE outreach activity of GARDP (Global Antibiotic Research & Development Partnership).
  • Recording is available on YouTube.
• 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.
• 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
• Working Fields in Pharmaceutical Industry, 2019, the Graduate School of Pharmacy, University of Freiburg, Germany.
• OpenTox Swiss Chapter Meeting, Basel, Switzerland, 2018
  • Speaker profile on the meeting’s website
  • Presentation slides: Multiscale Modelling of Preclinical Drug Safety
• ISMB/ECCB 2019, Basel, Swizterland.
  • Bioinformatics and exploratory data analysis in drug discovery: an industrial perspective
• 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

Serving as independent expert and board member

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I have served as an independent expert for international and national agencies, reviewing proposals in the fields of bioinformatics, computational biology, biomedicine, and translational research.

I have served in boards organized by universities, research institutes, and companies aiming at reviewing project proposals, applying for or allocating research funding, and recruiting new professors.

If you are interested in engaging me as an independent expert, reviewer, or board member, please contact me. References are available upon request.

Teaching

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• 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.
• 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.
• 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 also give courses on bioinformatics, computational biology, drug discovery, data analysis and programming (as a certified Carpentry trainer) from time to time. If you are interested in inviting me to teach, please contact me.