Group Members
Alexander Schliep
Head
office: Chalmers D&IT 5481
phone: +46-76-608 69 63
e-mail: alexander@schlieplab.org
Joel Gustafsson
Doctoral Student (since 2019)
Joint Ph.D. student with Peter Norberg (Virology, Sahlgrenska) funded by FORMAS.
e-mail: me@joelgustafsson.com
Nathalie Gocht
Doctoral Student (since 2023)
Medical Bioinformatics
office: BTU Gb. 9, 9.321
phone: +49 355 5818-737
e-mail: nathalie.gocht@b-tu.de
Shirin Tavara
Doctoral Student (since 2017)
office: Chalmers D&IT 6476
e-mail: tavara@chalmers.se
Simon Johansson
Doctoral Student (since 2019)
Industrial PhD student with AstraZeneca (supervisor: Ola Engkvist) funded by WASP-AS.
office: Chalmers D&IT 6449
e-mail: simon.johansson@astrazeneca.com
Tobias Johansson
Doctoral Student (since 2019)
Industrial Ph.D. student with Volvo Cars (supervisor: Anders Ödblom) funded by Volvo.
office: Chalmers D&IT 6447
e-mail: tobias.johansson@volvocars.com
Former Ph.D. students
John Wiedenhoeft
Doctoral Student (2011–2018) Ph.D. in Computer Science, Rutgers, Sept. 2018.
e-mail: john.wiedenhoeft@chalmers.se
Since 2019: Research Associate, Core Facility, Medical Biometry and Statistical Bioinformatics, Universitätsmedizin Göttingen
Rajat S Roy
Doctoral Student (2010–2014) Ph.D. in Computer Science, Rutgers, July 2014.
e-mail: rajatroy@cs.rutgers.edu
Now: Senior Bioinformatics Scientist with Illumina, Inc. (San Diego, CA)
Md P. Mahmud
Doctoral Student (2010–2014) Ph.D. in Computer Science, Rutgers, May 2014.
e-mail: pavelm@cs.rutgers.edu
Now: Senior software engineer, Google, Inc.
Ivani de Oliveira Negrão Lopes
Doctoral Student (2012–2014) Ph.D. in Computer Science, University of Sao Paulo, Brasil, June 2014. Principal advisor: Prof. Dr. Andre de Carvalho.
e-mail: ivani.negrao@embrapa.br
Now: researcher at Embrapa.
Ruben B. Schilling
Doctoral Student (2007–2009) PhD studies 2007–09; Diplom CS, Universität Freiburg (main supervisor: Prof. Dr.-Ing. Hans Burkhardt) 2007.
e-mail: ruben.schilling@molgen.mpg.de
Now Technischer Produktmanager @ Digitale Schiene Deutschland.
Benjamin Georgi
Doctoral Student (2005–2009) Ph.D. Bioinformatics, June 2009, Freie Universität Berlin; MSc (2005) and B.Sc. (2003) Bioinformatics, Freie Universität Berlin.
e-mail: georgi@molgen.mpg.de
Now: Associate Principal Scientist, AstraZeneca
Ivan G Costa
Doctoral Student (2004–2008) Ph.D. Bioinformatics, June 2008, FU Berlin.
e-mail: filho@molgen.mpg.de
Now Professor for computational biology, Interdisciplinary Center for Clinical Research (IZKF) Aachen, University Hospital Aachen.
Wasinee Rungsarityotin
Doctoral Student (2004–2007) Ph.D. Bioinformatics, Nov. 2007, Freie Universität Berlin.
e-mail: rungsari@molgen.mpg.de
Now Senior Researcher at Mahidol University, Institute of Molecular Biosciences, Thailand.
Other Alumni and Visitors
Jan Qvick
M.Sc. Student (2019–2020) MSc in Computer Science (MPALG), Chalmers (2020). Joint project with Peter Norberg (Virology, Sahlgrenska).
e-mail:
Daniel Brunnsåker
M.Sc. Student (2019–2020) MSc in Computer Science, Chalmers (2020). Joint project with Johanna Sagemark and Bino John (AstraZeneca).
e-mail:
Sharan Sabi
M.Sc. Student (2019) MSc Computer Science (MPALG), Chalmers (2019) with Ellinor Rånge (Ericsson).
e-mail:
Sebastian Norlin
M.Sc. Student (2019) MSc in Computer Science (MPALG), Chalmers (2019). Joint project with Peter Norberg (Virology, Sahlgrenska).
e-mail:
Gabriel Alpsten
M.Sc. Student (2019) MSc Computer Science (MPALG), Chalmers (2019) with Ellinor Rånge (Ericsson).
e-mail:
Sören Richard Stahlschmidt
M.Sc. Student (2019) MSc in Applied Data Science, University of Gothenburg (2019). Joint project with Maria Luisa Guerriero (AstraZeneca).
e-mail:
Natalia Jurczynska
M.Sc. Student (2019) MSc in Applied Data Science, University of Gothenburg (2019). Joint project with Volvo Car Group.
e-mail:
Arnaud Moulis
M.Sc. Student (2019) MSc in Applied Data Science, University of Gothenburg (2019). Joint project with Emotra AB.
e-mail:
Calle Ekdahl
Research Assistant (2017–2018) Project Assistant on Vinnova FFI Grant: BADA-SEMPA.
e-mail: callee@student.chalmers.se
Now: developer with Smart Eye.
John Martinsson
Research Assistant (2017–2018) Project Assistant on Vinnova FFI Grant: BADA-SEMPA; MSc in Computer Science (MPALG), Chalmers (2017).
e-mail: mjohn@chalmers.se
Now: Machine learning researcher at RISE AI (Gothenburg, Sweden)
Erik Norlander
M.Sc. Student (2018) MSc in Computer Science (MPALG), Chalmers (2018). Joint project with Peter Norberg (Virology, Sahlgrenska).
e-mail:
Björn Hedström
M.Sc. Student (2018) MSc in Computer Science (MPALG), Chalmers (2018). Joint project with Peter Damaschke (CSE, Chalmers).
e-mail:
Ivar Josefsson
M.Sc. Student (2018) MSc in Computer Science (MPALG), Chalmers (2018). Joint project with Peter Damaschke (CSE, Chalmers)
e-mail:
Edvin Listo Zec
M.Sc. Student (2017) MSc Engineering Mathematics and Computational Science, Chalmers (2017) with Nasser Mohammadiha, Volvo Car Group.
e-mail:
Now: Machine learning researcher at RISE AI (Gothenburg, Sweden)
Scott Merkling
Research Assistant (2012–2016) Now: Software Engineer at Twitch
e-mail: sbmerkling@gmail.com
Eric J Brugel
Research Assistant (2013–2015)
e-mail: ejb177@scarletmail.rutgers.edu
Daniel Z Kaplan
Research Assistant (2013)
e-mail: danzk87@eden.rutgers.edu
Jonathan Shao
Undergraduate Student (2012–2013)
e-mail: jonshao@eden.rutgers.edu
Theresa Lye
Undergraduate Student (2012) DIMACS REU Summer student 2011
e-mail: tlye@eden.rutgers.edu
Now a Ph.D. student at Columbia University
Alice Paul
Undergraduate Student (2011) DIMACS REU Summer student 2011
e-mail: alicejpaul@gmail.com
Now an Assistant Professor of Applied Mathematics and Computer Science at Olin College of Engineering https://alicepaul.github.io/
Carolyn Keenan
Undergraduate Student (2010) DIMACS REU Summer student 2010
e-mail: carolyn.keenan@gmail.com
Matthew R. Mitsui
Undergraduate Student (2010) Now: Postdoctoral Associate at InfoSeeking
e-mail: mmitsui@eden.rutgers.edu
Christoph Hafemeister
Research Assistant (2006–2009) M.Sc. Bioinformatics, Freie Universität Berlin, 2008.
e-mail: hafemeis@molgen.mpg.de
Now: Postdoctoral research associate at the New York Genome Center.
Janne Grunau
Research Assistant (2005–2008) B.Sc. Bioinformatics, Freie Universität Berlin, 2005.
e-mail: grunau@molgen.mpg.de
Paul Piwowarczyk
M.Sc. Student (2008) Diplom Bioinformatik, FH Oldenburg
e-mail: paulpiwowarczyk@googlemail.com
Jian Li
B.Sc. Student (2007) Internship and B.Sc. Bioinformatics, Freie Universität Berlin, 2007
e-mail: jli@inf.fu-berlin.de
Marco Rügen
B.Sc. Student (2007) B.Sc. Bioinformatics, Freie Universität Berlin 2007.
e-mail: m.ruegen@gmx.de
Now bioinformatics researcher at Humboldt University
Michael Turewicz
M.Sc. Student (2006–2007) Diplom Bioinformatics 2007, MLU Halle
e-mail: miantur@web.de
Now group leader for Computational Quantitative Proteomics, Ruhr-Universität Bochum.
Michael Seifert
M.Sc. Student (2006) Diplom Bioinformatics 2006, MLU Halle
e-mail: seifert@ipk-gatersleben.de
Now Group leader, Bioinformatics Core Unit at the Institute for Medical Informatics and Biometry, TU Dresden.
Lennart Opitz
M.Sc. Student (2006) Diplom Bioinformatics 2006, MLU Halle (jointly with Stefan Posch, Halle)
e-mail: lopitz@uni-goettingen.de
Now: Specialist Genome Informatics, Functional Genomics Center Zurich, ETH Zurich
Alexander Riemer
B.Sc. Student (2005) B.Sc. Bioinformatics, FU Berlin 2005
e-mail: riemer@zib.de
Ph.D. student at TU Braunschweig.
Jonas Heise
Research Assistant (2003–2005) B.Sc. Bioinformatics, Freie Universität Berlin, 2004.
e-mail: heise@molgen.mpg.de
Matthias Heinig
M.Sc. Student (2005) Now: Junior Group Leader Genetic and Epigenetic Gene Regulation
e-mail: heinig@molgen.mpg.de
Ben Rich
Research Assistant (2003–2004)
e-mail: rich@molgen.mpg.de
Harindar Keer
Staff (2002–2003) Now: founder of flixstock.com.
e-mail: hkeer@uci.edu
Andrea Weisse
B.Sc. Student (2003) Internship and B.Sc. Bioinformatics 2003, Freie Univesität Berlin
e-mail: andrea.weisse@nuim.ie
Now: Research associate, Faculty of Medicine, Department of Infectious Disease, Imperial College.