The quantitative interplay of chromatin organization and gene co-expression at single-cell level (EpiChrom 2021)
Featured Talk at EpiChrom 2021 - Swedish Epigenetics and Chromatin Meeting, Linköping, Sweden
CV
Education
- B.S. in Biological Science, Heidelberg University, Germany, 2020
- M.S. in Molecular Techniques in Life Science, Karolinska Institute, KTH Royal Institute of Technology and Stockholm University (joint), Stockholm Sweden, 2022
- Ph.D in Biological Science, European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI) and Cambridge University, 2026 (expected)
Work experience
- Autumn 2022 - Autumn 2026: Doctoral Student
- European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI), Hinxton, UK
- Context-specific data-driven cell signalling models to identify functional units responsible for disease progression and phenotype induction
- Supervisor: Evangelia Petsalaki
- Thesis Advisory Committee: Evangelia Petsalaki (EMBL-EBI), John Lees (EMBL-EBI), Maria Zimermann (EMBL), Maria Marti Solano (Cambridge University), Ursula Kummer (BioQuant,Heidelberg University) & Rahuman Sheriff (EMBL-EBI)
- Summer 2022 - Autumn 2022: Research Assistant
- Stockholm University / SciLifeLab, Stockholm, Sweden
- Entropy predicts sensitivity of pseudo-random seeds
- Supervisor: Kristoffer Sahlin
- Fall 2022: Master Thesis Student
- Stockholm University / SciLifeLab, Stockholm, Sweden
- Exploring Methods for Improved Strobemer Seeding
- Supervisor: Kristoffer Sahlin
- Summer 2021 - Winter 2021: Research Intern
- Karolinska Institute (MTC) / SciLifeLab, Stockholm, Sweden
- Prediction of nuclear 3D organization from single-cell gene co-expression data
- Supervisor: Marcel Tarbier & Vicente Pelechano
- Fall 2021 - Winter 2021: Student Research Assistant
- Karolinska Institute (CMB) / SciLifeLab, Stockholm, Sweden
- Mathematical modeling of interactions between tumors and the systemic immunity
- Supervisor: Jean Hausser
- Fall 2020: Bachelor Thesis Student
- BioQuant, Heidelberg University, Germany
- Stochastic Dynamics of Type-I Interferon Responses
- Supervisor: Ursula Kummer & Sven Sahle
- Fall 2016: Intern
- Merck Group, Darmstadt, Germany
- Analysis of site-specific Antibody-Drug Conjugates
- Supervisors: Jennifer Schanz & Roland Keller
Volunteer Experience
- 2023: Organizer of the 25. EMBL International PhD Symposium (Co-Head Finance Team)
- since 2023: Predoc Representative, EMBL’s European Bioinformatics Institute, Hinxton, UK
- since 2023: PreLighter, active contributor to the preLight program hosted by The Company of Biologists
- 2017-2023: Scientific Tutor at Heidelberger Life Science Lab, German Cancer Research Cancer, Heidelberg, Germany
- 2021-2023: Organizer working group “Ludology Meets Informatics”
- 2021: Organizer of a two-day workshop on computational and mathematical analysis and modeling of biological systems (April 2021)
- 2020-2021: Organizer working group “Ludology”
- 2017-2021: Organizer working group “Politics and Law”
- 2017-2022: Member of the advisory council of the alumni organisation
- 2017-2021: Member of the selection committee
- 2017-2018: Executive board member of the alumni organisation
- 2021-2022: Spokesperson of the German Academic Scholarship Foundation for Stockholm & Uppsala
- 2020-2022: Student Representative and Student Union Council Member at Medicinska Föreningen, Karolinska Institute
Publications (Selection)
- Maier et al. CHARLIE: A Web server for Context and pHenotype Aware ReguLatory sIgnatures Extraction. in prep.
- Maier, Petursson, Lussana et al. Data-driven extraction of human kinase-substrate relationships from omics datasets. biorXiv, 2024.
- Maier and Sahlin. Entropy predicts sensitivity of pseudo-random seeds. GenomeResearch, 2023.
- Maier & Aguilera et al. Stochastic dynamics of Type-I interferon responses. PLOS Comp Bio, 2022.
Talks
Entropy predicts sensitivity of pseudo-random seeds (RECOMB 2023)
Talk at RECOMB 2023 - 27th International Conference on Research in Computational Molecular Biology, Istanbul, Turkey
SELPHI2: Data-driven extraction of human kinase-substrate relationships from omics datasets (SymBLS2024)
Talk at SymBLS 2024 - Babraham Symposium for Biological and Life Sciences, McGrath Center, St. Catherine's College, Cambridge, UK