(he/him)
Molecular and Computational Biologist
Germany
I am a molecular and cell biologist with a doctoral degree (Dr. rer. nat.) in biology from RWTH Aachen University, earned at the Institute of Molecular Immunology and Biochemistry. I have recently added computational biology to my training through a bioinformatics programme at CQ Mplus Academy in Berlin. My work focuses on the cellular mechanisms that drive cancer cell survival and progression, and on cell-cell interactions in immune responses. I am particularly interested in how these mechanisms, from cellular stress responses to uncontrolled proliferation, could be targeted therapeutically. I combine molecular biology with my background in immunology and cancer biology, supported by skills in bioinformatics and data analysis.
Updated September 2026
Directions I want to work in, alongside the methods I already use.
Cellular stress and homeostasis, mitochondrial function, RNA splicing, single-cell interactomes.
Protein domain structure and dynamics, BioID/TurboID interactomics, complex stability, and ubiquitin-dependent degradation in disease models.
Quantitative proteomics, single-cell and spatial transcriptomics, NGS workflows.
Tumour microenvironment, immune cell and tumour interaction, barcoded CAR T-cell screens, immunotherapy.
ORCID 0009-0007-1252-2956 is the authoritative record of my publications. Please use it when citing or linking to my work.
May 2026 — present
University of Würzburg (Julius-Maximilians-Universität), Würzburg, Germany
August 2025 — June 2026
CQ Mplus Academy, Berlin, Germany
October 2024 — April 2025
Goethe University Frankfurt, University Hospital Frankfurt, Department of Hematology
July 2019 — October 2024
RWTH Aachen University, Institute of Molecular Immunology and Biochemistry
March 2018 — June 2019
Ulm University, University Hospital Ulm, Institute of Immunology
October 2015 — March 2018
Ulm University, Institute of Neurobiology
September 2013 — May 2014
Menoufia University, Egypt
September 2009 — May 2013
Menoufia University, Egypt
Position Degree Structured training
Code is on GitHub.
Ranked Expression & Essentiality Finder
Pools cell lines belonging to one disease and extracts the signature they share: commonly and selectively essential genes from CRISPR screens, plus consensus up- and down-regulated genes from expression data. Scoring combines effect size with cross-line consistency, so single-line outliers do not dominate.
Manuscript in preparation.
RWTH Aachen, Institute of Molecular Immunology and Biochemistry
Analysis pipeline for TurboID and BioID proximity-labeling proteomics: contaminant handling, enrichment against the appropriate labeling control, statistical testing and interpretation of proximal interactors.
Underlies the IRE1 interactome published in Cells (2024).
University Hospital Frankfurt, Department of Hematology
Built a CROP-seq system for cytosine and adenine deaminase base editors, from vector design and viral transduction through to editing validation, so that guide identity and transcriptome can be read out from the same cell.
Screening system established and handed over; wet-lab work, not yet published.
Training project, University Hospital Frankfurt
Worked through a multi-plex TMT dataset carrying a pooled reference channel and deliberate plex-level batch differences, to show why internal reference scaling is required before any cross-plex comparison is meaningful.
Documented as a reproducible walkthrough.
Independent tool
Scripted gating workflow for flow cytometry in R, written to make gating decisions explicit and repeatable rather than clicked through by hand in a GUI.
Grew out of several years on FACSCanto and LSRFortessa.
Training project, CQ Mplus Academy, Berlin
Snakemake workflow for mtDNA sequencing from blood samples, covering read processing through variant calling with the steps and dependencies declared rather than implied.
Reusable across sample batches.
Full list on ORCID and Google Scholar.
PhD at RWTH Aachen, research stay in Frankfurt
Institute of Immunology, Ulm; FELASA B licence
Published and unpublished analyses, open repositories, ongoing training
Proteomics and screen data from own projects; single-cell and spatial methods in training
Doctoral training and supervision
The fastest way to reach me is email.
The CV above is the full version. References are available on request.
