Research Interests


Education

I got an S.B. degree in Mathematics from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2000, followed by S.M. and Ph.D degrees in 2003 and 2005 doing research on Computational Fluid Dynamics, in particular finite element method, shape optimization and error estmation.


Current Activities

At present, I am a research scientist at RICAM, in the group Mathematical Methods in Molecular and Systems Biology, located in the Vienna Biocenter.

My current research interest is in developing mathematical computational methods for systems biology. In particular, I have been working on various inverse problems in dealing with data of both quantitative as well as qualitative nature.
Currently, my main collaborations are with the groups at:

  • TBI: Theoretical Biochemistry Group, University of Vienna
University of Vienna
  • MFPL: Max F. Perutz Laboratories, University of Vienna
MFPL


Conferences/visits/presentations

06.2005 Speaker, IPAM Inverse Problems Reunion Conference Lake-Arrowhead, USA
10.2005 Participant, Bifurcation Theory Course
London Dynamical Systems Group, Imperical College
London, UK
05.2006
Speaker, IPAM Workshop on Systems Biology and Molecular Modelling Los Angeles, USA
06.2006
Speaker, IPAM Inverse Problems Reunion Conference II Lake-Arrowhead, USA
06.2006
Speaker, Applied Dynamical Systems Workshop Ghent, Belgium
09.2006
Participant, EMS Summer School: Mathematics in Molecular Cell Biology Linz, Austria
10.2006
Poster presentation, 7th International Conference on Systems Biology (ICSB 06) Yokohama, Japan
01.2007
Speaker in Session on Genes, Dynamics Days (DD 07) Boston, USA
01.2007 Poster presentation, IMA Workshop on Optimization and Control
Minneapolis, USA
03.2007
Speaker, Bioinformatics Research and Development (BIRD 07) Berlin, Germany
06.2007
Participant, SBML Hackathon 2007 Newcastle, UK
07.2007
Participant, Von Neumann Symposium: Sparse Representation and High-Dimensional Geometry Snowbird, USA
07.2007
Invited speaker, at mini-symposiums: Impact of Biology on Mathematical ModelingComputational and Statistical Methods in Cell Biology, at the
6th International Congress on Industrial and Applied Mathematics (ICIAM 07)
Zürich, Switzerland
07.2007
Participant, 15th Conference on Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology &
6th European Conference on Computational Biology
(ISMB/ECCB 07)
Vienna, Austria
08.2007
Speaker, 12th International Conference on Differential Equations  (EquaDiff 07) Vienna, Austria
09.2007
Participant, Molecular Bioanalytics Summer School (MoBA)
Saalbach, Austria
10.2007
Lecturer, Tutorial on Inverse Methodologies for Systems Biology: SOSlib, MathSBML and Matlab extensions, at the 8th International Conference on Systems Biology (ICSB 07) Long Beach, USA
11.2007
Workshop on Systems Biology, RICAM Special Semester on Mathematical Methods in Biology
Linz, Austria
01.2008
Participant, Culminating Workshop for RICAM Special Semester on Mathematical Methods in Biology
Obergurgl, Austria
04.2008 Participant, Network Dynamics and Cell Physiology, IMA, University of Minnesota Minneapolis, USA
04.2008
Invited speaker, Seminar at Center for Computational Engineering Science, RWTH Aachen Aachen, Germany
05.2008
Participant, CCBI 4th Annual Symposium, Cambridge University
Cambridge, UK
05.2008 Seminar speaker, European Bioinformatics Institute Hinxton,UK
05.2008
Invited speaker, Workshop on Nonlinear Dynamics of Chemical and Biochemical Reaction Networks, University College London
London, UK
06.2008
Poster presentation, 5th International Workshop on Computational Systems Biology (WCSB 08) Leipzig, Germany
06.2008 Speaker, European Conference on Mathematical and Theoretical Biology (ECMTB 08) Edinburgh, UK
06.2008
Seminar speaker, Center for Systems Biology at Edinburgh, University of Edinburgh
Edinburgh, UK
07.2008
Speaker, Society of Mathematical Biology Conference (SMB 08)
Toronto, Canada
08.2008
Co-organizer and speaker of Mini-Symposium on Data-Driven Modeling and Inverse Analysis of Cellular Dynamics, SIAM Conference on Life Sciences (SIAM LS 08) Montreal, Canada
08.2008
Poster presentation, International Conference on Systems Biology (ICSB 08) Gothenburg, Sweden
09.2008
Participant, Tutorial for RICAM Special Semester on Stochastics
Linz, Austria
10.2008
Invited speaker, 3rd Toyota CRDL Workshop:  Mathematical Methods in Complex Systems
Géménos, France
12.2008 Invited speaker, 3rd International Conference on Scientific Computing and Partial Differential Equations (SCPDE08) Hong Kong, China
02.2009 Speaker, 24th TBI Winter Seminar Bled, Slovenia
07.2009 Participant, Applied Inverse Problems (AIP 09) Vienna, Austria
09.2009 Lecturer, Tutorial on Inverse Dynamical Problems for Synthetic Biology at the 10th International Conference on Systems Biology (ICSB 09) San Francisco, USA
11.2009 Participant, MBI workshop on Dynamics of Signal Transduction and of Gene-Protein Regulatory Networks Columbus, USA
11.2009 Participant, MBI workshop on Mathematical Developments arising from Biology Columbus, USA
05.2010 Invited speaker at mini-symposium, the 8th AIMS Conference on Dynamical Systems, Differential Equations and Applications Dresden, Germany
06.2010 Invited speaker, Inverse Problems Computations and Applications (IPCA 10) Luminy, France

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