Education

Doctor of Sciences

ETH Zurich - Department of Computer Science, Zürich, Switzerland

02.2017 – 01.2023

Other Affiliations: University Hospital Zurich (USZ), Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics (SIB)
Advisor: Prof. Gunnar Rätsch
Co-Supervisor: Dr. André Kahles
Other Co-Examiners: Prof. Mario Stanke, Prof. Inanc Birol
Dissertation: “Algorithms for efficient sensitive search and sample comparison on petabase-scale genomics data”

Master of Science in Computational Biology and Bioinformatics

ETH Zurich - Department of Biosystems Science and Engineering, Basel, Switzerland

09.2014 – 09.2016

Other Affiliations: Faculty of Science, University of Zurich (UZH)
Advisors: Prof. Sven Panke, Prof. Jörg Stelling
Co-Supervisors: Dr. Sabine Oesterle, Dr. Lukas Widmer
Thesis: “Prediction of internal protein tagging sites from amino acid sequences”

Honours Bachelor of Science with High Distinction

University of Toronto - Faculty of Arts and Science, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

09.2009 – 04.2014

Specialist: Bioinformatics and Computational Biology; Major: Mathematics
Advisor: Prof. Michael Brudno
Co-Supervisor: Dr. Matei David
Senior Research Project: “Analysing Alu inserts detected from high-throughput sequencing data”