I am broadly intersted in quantitative systems biology, in particular bacterial physiology. My current research focuses on starvation, where I try to understand how bacteria can survive long periods of carbon starvation and why they eventually die. I am using a quantitative approach, where I combine mathematical modeling with experimental work.

Before I joined the Basan lab, I did my Ph.D. with Ulrich Gerland (Technical University of Munich, Germany) and Terence Hwa (UC San Diego) on growth shifts in bacteria. I obtained my M.Sc. and B.Sc. from the Ludwig Maximilians Universität Munich with a focus on biophysics and a master thesis on stochastic processes