I'm a postdoctoral researcher at the Institute of Science and Technology Austria (ISTA). I use a theoretical physics perspective to understand the fundamental physical principles that underlie complex living systems. My research is guided by the overarching question: how do living systems use physical phenomena to generate functional behaviours? To address this question, I combine physical models with the development of novel data-driven inference techniques in close collaboration with experimental collaborators. I currently focus on three key research areas across physical scales from tissues to cells down to the molecular level: Information-processing and self-organization in multi-cellular tissues, active motion of cells in complex environments, and the stochastic dynamics of chromosomal DNA loci. Please refer to the research tab for more details.

At IST Austria, I work with Edouard Hannezo and Gašper Tkačik. I am also a Fellow of the NOMIS Foundation and my research is supported by an EMBO Postdoctoral Fellowship. I did my PhD in the group of Chase Broedersz at the Arnold-Sommerfeld-Center for Theoretical Physics at the LMU Munich on the stochastic dynamics of migrating cells, for which I received the Gustav-Hertz-Prize of the German Physical Society and the Dissertation Award of the Munich University Association. During my PhD, I was an Add-on Fellow of the Joachim Herz Foundation and my work was supported by a DFG Fellowship within the Graduate School of Quantitative Biosciences Munich. I did my undergraduate studies at the University of Cambridge, which were supported by a scholarship from the German Studienstiftung. My master's thesis was about colloidal thermophoresis under the supervision of Erika Eiser and Daan Frenkel.