Max Planck Institute of Molecular
Cell Biology and Genetics
- Harrington -
Pfotenhauerstr. 108
01307 Dresden
Germany
My research focuses on the problem of reconciling models and data by extracting information about the structure of models and the shape of data. To develop these methods, we combine techniques from a variety of disciplines such as computational algebraic geometry and computational topology, statistics, optimization, network theory, and systems biology.
I always enjoyed mathematics, but also was curious about medicine. I learned that it is possible to combine mathematics to study biology and medicine in university, and continued these directions, specifically reconciling mathematical models and data. If we can understand how biology works at the genetic/molecular/cellular scale, as well as what goes wrong in disease, then we may be able to use mathematics to help design drug therapies.
Director and Research Group Leader at the MPI-CBG and the Center for Systems Biology Dresden (CSBD)
Professor of Mathematics at the Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford
Associate Group Leader Wellcome Centre for Human Genetics, University of Oxford
Associate Professor at the Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford
Research Fellow at the Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford
Postdoctoral research associate. Theoretical Systems Biology, Imperial College London
Developing mathematical/statistical models and methods.
PhD, Department of Mathematics, Supervisors: Jaroslav Stark and Dorothy Buck, Imperial College London
BS, Applied Mathematics, summa cum laude, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Philip Leverhulme Prize in Mathematics and Statistics
University of Cambridge Adams Prize: Mathematics of Networks
London Mathematical Society Whitehead Prize
Royal Society University Research Fellowship Renewal
Research Fellow in Mathematics and the Sciences, St John’s College, Oxford
Alan Turing Institute Fellowship
Royal Society University Research Fellowship
EPSRC Postdoctoral Fellowship
Junior Research Fellowship, St Cross College
NSF Graduate Research Fellowship (awarded based on research proposal)
Imperial College Deputy Rector’s Award (ORS based on research proposal)
Finished in top five in Mathematics (ranking not released), Univ of Mass Amherst
Student Leadership Award. 21st Century Award. Univ of Mass Amherst
Massachusetts Women in Public Higher Education Outstanding Achievement Award
Goldwater Scholar (Barry M. Goldwater and Excellence in Education Program)