Curriculum Vitae
In my Bachelor's and Master's at TU Berlin I trained as an engineer, focusing on fluid mechanics and mechatronics. From 2016 onwards I worked in parallel as a research assistant. In my PhD, in Sebastian Bonhoeffer's Theoretical Biology group at ETH Zürich, I combined high-throughput robotic experiments with mathematical and statistical modelling to investigate bacterial population dynamics and pharmacodynamics under multidrug treatment. I completed the doctorate in March 2026 and continued working at ETH until July.
Based in Lucerne · available now · looking for a quantitative position in industry
Education
PhD (Dr. sc. ETH Zürich)
ETH Zürich · Theoretical Biology, Dept. of Environmental Systems Science
Thesis: "Experimental and Theoretical Investigations of Bacterial Population Dynamics Under Multidrug Treatment". Defended March 2026.
MSc Engineering Science
TU Berlin · Physikalische Ingenieurwissenschaft
Both specialisation tracks: fluid mechanics and mechatronics. Thesis (1.0): a microfluidic bioreactor for resistance evolution (SolidWorks, STAR-CCM+).
BSc Energy & Process Engineering
TU Berlin · Energie- und Prozesstechnik
Thesis (1.3): a 3:1 scale test stand for the HeartMate 3 blood pump, with particle image velocimetry (PIV) flow visualisation.
Experience
Doctoral Researcher
ETH Zürich · Theoretical Biology (Prof. Sebastian Bonhoeffer)
I designed and automated large-scale experiments on a robotic liquid-handling platform, built the pipelines and Bayesian models that turn thousands of noisy growth trajectories into estimates, and wrote the papers — two of them in PNAS and eLife. Teaching assistant for two Master's courses on infectious disease dynamics.
Research Assistant (50%)
FU Berlin & Charité · EvolChip project
I designed a microfluidic bioreactor for antibiotic resistance evolution and its microcontroller-based control system (Arduino, C++), helped secure start-up funding, and co-supervised a bachelor's thesis.
Undergraduate Research Assistant (25%)
TU Berlin · gas dynamics
I ran detonation experiments, imaged them with Schlieren optics, and analysed the recordings quantitatively in MATLAB.
Research Internship
Charité Berlin · Biofluid Mechanics Lab
I wrote the control software for a blood-pressure measurement device (C++).
Skills
- Modeling & Theory deterministic (ODE) and stochastic models of population dynamics; pharmacodynamic modeling (Hill functions, EC50, dose-response curves); drug interaction frameworks (Bliss independence, Loewe additivity); epidemiological modeling; model calibration and sensitivity analysis.
- Statistics & Data Analysis time-series analysis of high-throughput trajectories (8640+ curves); functional data analysis; bootstrap inference; spline regression; uncertainty quantification; hypothesis testing.
- Bayesian Modeling & Inference hierarchical Bayesian models; Hamiltonian Monte Carlo (NUTS) in PyMC; Gaussian Markov random fields; Bayesian random-effects meta-analysis; prior sensitivity analysis.
- Experimental & High-Throughput large-scale 384-well plate experiments with liquid-handling robotics; multi-modal population measurement (luminescence, CFU, OD); bacterial culture and plasmid conjugation; experimental design.
- Programming & Tools Python (NumPy, SciPy, pandas, statsmodels, matplotlib, PyMC), C++, MATLAB, Git, Linux, Docker.
- Languages German (native), English (C2), Korean (A2–B1).