Group Members
Alexander Schliep
Head
office: 9.323
phone: +49-355-5818-721
e-mail: alexander@schlieplab.org
Katharina Mansfeld
Administrator
office: 9.322
phone: +49-355-5818-720
e-mail: katharina.mansfeld@b-tu.de
Adel Farfar
Intern (since 2026)
Internship on the ‘Artificial Intelligence’ Master’s programme at the Brandenburg University of Technology Cottbus-Senftenberg on the topic of 'AI for extracting information from drug patents'
e-mail: Adel.Farfar@b-tu.de
Aleksandra Khatova
Doctoral Student (since 2023)
office: 9.315
phone: +49-355-5818-723
e-mail: aleksandra.khatova@b-tu.de
Imad Aldin Adib
Intern (since 2026)
Internship on the ‘Artificial Intelligence’ Master’s programme at the Brandenburg University of Technology Cottbus-Senftenberg on the topic of ‘Deep Learning for ∆G Pre-filtering Before Thermodynamic Evaluation’
e-mail: ImadAldin.Adib@b-tu.de
Kian Jalilian
Research Assistant (since 2025)
e-mail: kian.jalilian@b-tu.de
Maral Farashahi
Intern (since 2026)
Internship on the ‘Artificial Intelligence’ Master’s programme at the Brandenburg University of Technology Cottbus-Senftenberg on the topic of ‘Modelling RNA Accessibility for ASOs’
e-mail: Maral.Farashahi@b-tu.de
Morteza Ghorbani Kari
Research Assistant (since 2025)
e-mail: Morteza.GhorbaniKari@b-tu.de
Nathalie Gocht
Doctoral Student (since 2023)
office: 9.321
phone: +49-355-5818-737
e-mail: nathalie.gocht@b-tu.de
Seyedarash Ayatollahi
Doctoral Student (since 2025)
office: 9.321
phone: +49-355-5818-737
e-mail: seyedarash.ayatollahi@b-tu.de
Affiliated Members
Shirin Tavara
Postdoctoral Scientist Ph.D. student until June 2022. Postdoc from Oct 2022 until October 2025 funded by DDLS-WASP. Lecturer at Chalmers.
e-mail: tavara@chalmers.se
Simon Johansson
Doctoral Student Industrial PhD student with AstraZeneca (industrial supervisor: Ola Engkvist) funded by WASP-AS.
e-mail: simon.johansson@astrazeneca.com
Masters Students
Currently there are no masters students.
Alumni Ph.D. students and post-docs
Joel Gustafsson
Doctoral Student (2019–2023) Joint Ph.D. student with Peter Norberg (Virology, Sahlgrenska) funded by FORMAS.
e-mail: me@joelgustafsson.com
Tobias Johansson
Doctoral Student (2019–2022)
e-mail: tobias.johansson@volvocars.com
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
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)
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
Jonas Heise
Research Assistant (2003–2005) B.Sc. Bioinformatics, Freie Universität Berlin, 2004.
e-mail: heise@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
Former B.Sc. and M.Sc. students
Ebin Joseph, M.Sc. Student (2024–2025). Predicting oligonucleotide thermodynamics with discrete Gaussian processes. M.Sc. Artificial Intelligence, Brandenburg University of Technology Cottbus-Senftenberg.
Filip Helmroth, M.Sc. Student (2023). AI for infectious diseases: Deep regression for VLMC distances. M.Sc. Computer Science and Engineering, Chalmers University of Technology.
Emil Wingärdh, M.Sc. Student (2023). Predicting Oligonucleotide Thermodynamics using Deep Learning. M.Sc. Computer Science and Engineering, Chalmers University of Technology.
Max Karlsson, M.Sc. Student (2023). Predicting Oligonucleotide Thermodynamics using Deep Learning. M.Sc. Computer Science and Engineering, Chalmers University of Technology.
Erik Söderpalm, M.Sc. Student (2023). AI for infectious diseases: Deep regression for VLMC distances. M.Sc. Computer Science and Engineering. Chalmers University of Technology.
Katalin Ferenc, M.Sc. Student (2021). Computational analysis and data mining of drug-induced transcriptional changes. M.Sc. Applied Data Science, University of Gothenburg. Joint project with AstraZeneca.
Hildur Egilsdottir, M.Sc. Student (2020). Machine Learning for Predicting Progression of Alzheimer’s Disease. M.Sc. Computer Science and Engineering, Chalmers University of Technology. With Fredrik Johanson (CSE) and Erik Portelius, Kaj Blennow, and Henrik Zetterberg (Sahlgrenska)..
Luca Bello, M.Sc. Student (2020). Machine learning for big sequence data: Wavelet-compressed Hidden Markov Models. M.Sc. Computer Science and Engineering (MPALG), Chalmers University of Technology.
Tulga Ariuntuya, M.Sc. Student (2020). AI graders for Python programming tasks. M.Sc. Computer Science and Engineering (MPALG), Chalmers University of Technology.
Hákon Valur Dansson, M.Sc. Student (2020). Machine Learning for Predicting Progression of Alzheimer’s Disease. M.Sc. Computer Science and Engineering, Chalmers University of Technology. With Fredrik Johanson (CSE) and Erik Portelius, Kaj Blennow, and Henrik Zetterberg (Sahlgrenska)..
Felix Finger, M.Sc. Student (2020). Compressed Machine Learning on Time Series Data. M.Sc. Computer Science, Chalmers University of Technology.
Jan Qvick, M.Sc. Student (2019–2020). Parallel construction of variable length Markov models for DNA sequence. M.Sc. Computer Science and Engineering (MPALG), Chalmers University of Technology. Joint project with Peter Norberg (Virology, Sahlgrenska)..
Daniel Brunnsåker, M.Sc. Student (2019–2020). Prediction of Liver Toxicity using Machine Learning to aid Drug Discovery. M.Sc. Computer Science and Engineering, Chalmers University of Technology. Joint project with Johanna Sagemark and Bino John (AstraZeneca).
Sharan Sabi, M.Sc. Student (2019). Prototype-based compression of time series from telecommunication data. M.Sc. Computer Science and Engineering (MPALG), Chalmers University of Technology. Joint project with Ellinor Rånge (Ericsson).
Sebastian Norlin, M.Sc. Student (2019). DNA Sequence Classification Using Variable Length Markov Models. M.Sc. Computer Science and Engineering (MPALG), Chalmers University of Technology. Joint project with Peter Norberg (Virology, Sahlgrenska).
Gabriel Alpsten, M.Sc. Student (2019). Prototype-based compression of time series from telecommunication data. M.Sc. Computer Science and Engineering (MPALG), Chalmers University of Technology. Joint project with Ellinor Rånge (Ericsson)..
Sören Richard Stahlschmidt, M.Sc. Student (2019). Predicting Mechanisms of Toxicity for Drug Development. M.Sc. Applied Data Science, University of Gothenburg. Joint project with Maria Luisa Guerriero (AstraZeneca).
Natalia Jurczynska, M.Sc. Student (2019). City Safety Event Classification using Machine Learning. M.Sc. Applied Data Science, University of Gothenburg. Joint project with Volvo Car Group.
Arnaud Moulis, M.Sc. Student (2019). Machine Learning for Suicide Risk Assessment on Depressed Patients. M.Sc. Applied Data Science, University of Gothenburg. Joint project with Emotra AB.
Erik Norlander, M.Sc. Student (2018). Clustering genomic signatures: A new distance measure for variable length Markov chains. M.Sc. Computer Science and Engineering (MPALG), Chalmers University of Technology. Joint project with Peter Norberg (Virology, Sahlgrenska).
Björn Hedström, M.Sc. Student (2018). Improved Pattern Generation for Bloom Filters with Bit Patterns. M.Sc. Computer Science and Engineering (MPALG), Chalmers University of Technology. Joint project with Peter Damaschke (CSE, Chalmers University of Technology).
Ivar Josefsson, M.Sc. Student (2018). Improved Pattern Generation for Bloom Filters with Bit Patterns. M.Sc. Computer Science and Engineering (MPALG), Chalmers University of Technology. Joint project with Peter Damaschke (CSE, Chalmers University of Technology).
Simon Persson, M.Sc. Student (2017). Machine Learning for Personalized Diabetes Management using Continuous Sensing. M.Sc. Computer Science and Engineering (MPALG), Chalmers University of Technology.
Adrian Gashi Rojas, M.Sc. Student (2017). Detecting Network Degradation Using Machine Learning. M.Sc. Computer Science and Engineering, Chalmers University of Technology.
Niclas Ogeryd Nordholm, M.Sc. Student (2017). Detecting Network Degradation Using Machine Learning. M.Sc. Computer Science and Engineering, Chalmers University of Technology.
Christian Meijner, M.Sc. Student (2017). Machine Learning for Personalized Diabetes Management using Continuous Sensing. M.Sc. in Computer Science and Engineering, Chalmers University of Technology.
Edvin Listo Zec,
M.Sc. Student (2017).
Machine Learning for Personalized Diabetes Management using Continuous Sensing. M.Sc. Engineering Mathematics and Computational Science, Chalmers University of Technology. Joint project with Nasser Mohammadiha, Volvo Car Group.
Now: Machine learning researcher at RISE AI (Gothenburg, Sweden).
Paul Piwowarczyk, M.Sc. Student (2008). Diplom Bioinformatik, FH Oldenburg.
Jian Li, B.Sc. Student (2007). Internship and B.Sc. Bioinformatics, Freie Universität Berlin, 2007.
Marco Rügen, B.Sc. Student (2007). B.Sc. Bioinformatics, Freie Universität Berlin 2007. Now bioinformatics researcher at Humboldt University.
Michael Turewicz,
M.Sc. Student (2006–2007).
Diplom Bioinformatics 2007, MLU Halle
Now group leader for Computational Quantitative Proteomics, Ruhr-Universität Bochum..
Michael Seifert,
M.Sc. Student (2006).
Diplom Bioinformatics 2006, MLU Halle
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) Now: Specialist Genome Informatics, Functional Genomics Center Zurich, ETH Zurich.
Alexander Riemer, B.Sc. Student (2005). B.Sc. Bioinformatics, FU Berlin 2005. Now Ph.D. student at TU Braunschweig..
Matthias Heinig, M.Sc. Student (2005). Now: Junior Group Leader Genetic and Epigenetic Gene Regulation.
Andrea Weisse, B.Sc. Student (2003). Internship and B.Sc. Bioinformatics 2003, Freie Universität Berlin. Now: Research associate, Faculty of Medicine, Department of Infectious Disease, Imperial College.
Former Interns
Aiswarya Radhakrishnan, Intern (2024). Automated Testing and Benchmarking of ML code. Internship on the ‘Artificial Intelligence’ Master’s programme, Brandenburg University of Technology Cottbus - Senftenberg.