I'm a postdoctoral researcher at the Institute of Science and Technology Austria (ISTA). I study the physics of living systems. My research is guided by the overarching question: how stochastic interactions of cells and molecules control functional behaviours in multicellular systems? To address this question, I combine physical models with information theory and stochastic inference in close collaboration with experimental collaborators. With these approaches, I investigate three research directions across physical scales from tissues to cells down to the molecular level: information processing and self-organization in development, cell migration 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. In my master's thesis, I developed hydrodynamic simulations of colloidal thermophoresis under the supervision of Erika Eiser and Daan Frenkel.