Education

• Certificate in clinical trial design and statistical analysis, Harvard Medical School, 2025
• Ph.D in Bioinformatics and RNA biology, Univeristy of Regensburg, 2022
• Swedish national graduate school in Medical Bioinformatics, 2018
• M.S.c in Genomics and Systems Biology, University of Gothenburg, 2016
• Erasmus exchange, University of Aberdeen, 2013
• B.S.c in Biotechnology, University of Ljubljana, 2014

Work experience

• 2025 - ongoing: Computational Scientist
  • Received a research grant from Alex’s lemonade stand
  • PI: Dr. Sabine Taschner-Mandl
• 2022 - 2025: Postdoc
  • Epigenetics
  • Tumor microenvironment
  • Neuroblastoma
  • scRNA-seq, snATAC-seq
  • PI(s): Dr. Sabine Taschner-Mandl and Dr. Florian Halbritter
• 2018 - 2022: PhD student
  • Unstable nucleosomes
  • RNA:DNA triplexes
  • MNase-seq, ATAC-seq, ChIP-seq, RNA-seq
  • PI: prof. Dr. Gernot Längst
• 2016 - 2018: Bioinformatician
  • Optimization of DamID-seq pipeline
  • Optimization of DamID protocol for use in mammalian cells
  • Received AG FOND Research grant: Alternative modeling of neuroblastoma progress using patient derived iPSCs.
  • PI: prof. Dr. Chandrasekhar Kanduri
• 2015 - 2016: MSc project
  • DNA hydroxymethylation in CLL patients
  • CASC15 lncRNA in neuroblastoma
  • PI: prof. Dr. Chandrasekhar Kanduri and Dr. Tanmoy Mondal
• January – July 2012: Student researcher
  • Characterization of mycobacteria proteins
  • Supervisor(s): Dr. Marjetka Podobnik and prof. Dr. Gregor Anderluh

Skills

• Coding [R, Python, bash, SQL, STATA]
• Mathematical modelling
• NGS analysis [ChIP-seq, RNA-seq, smallRNA-seq analysis, MNase-seq, ATAC-seq, DamID-seq, hMeDIp/MeDIP-seq, BS-seq]
• Single cell analysis [scRNA-seq, scATAC-seq]
• NGS library construction
• Gene perturbations [CRISPR/Cas9, sh/siRNA, LNA, OE]
• Cell culture [primary patient cell lines, hESCs, iPSCs]
• Biochemical assays [Microscale thermophoresis, western blot]
• Biostatistics and clinical trial design

Awards, grants

• Award for best oral presentation in the basic science category at ANR conference [2025]
• Research grant from ALSF [2025]
• Research grant from AG FOND [2017]