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German-Greek medical student and computational immunology researcher at Oxford. Open to collaborations and discussion.

↓ experience
↓ conferences
  • Visiting researcher — Uhlig Group & Dendrou Lab

    University of Oxford (TGU / CHG) & UHH-UKE Center for Internal Medicine

    Advisors: Prof. Holm Uhlig, Prof. Samuel Huber. Multilayer network / graph ML approaches to monogenic primary immunodeficiencies and the IUIS PID classification; Oxford Nanopore sequencing pipelines for the clinic; ML on longitudinal IBD biomarker trajectories. Co-advisors: Dr Calliope Dendrou (Kennedy Institute), Prof. Frank Ückert (UHH-UKE Medical Informatics).

    computational immunology IEI IBD nanopore Oxford

  • Voices of Tomorrow cohort — Venture Track

    Global Biotech Revolution

    Selected for the GBR VoT Venture Track — a two-month accelerator on venture capital investing and venture analysis in biotech and healthcare.

    biotech venture accelerator

  • Working student — Content creation

    Parqet, Hamburg

    Finance startup for multi-stock portfolio visualisation and analysis. Company-insight reports, product communication, and weekly live stream “Parqet Fireside”.

    startup finance content

  • Student researcher — Adlung Lab

    University of Hamburg (UHH-UKE), Center for Internal Medicine

    Advisor: Dr Lorenz Adlung. Research thesis on inference of metabolic properties and transcriptional programmes across altered adipocyte/immune cell ratios (GCB 2023 poster). Computational analysis of single-cell and single-nucleus adipocyte/macrophage data; ShinyR visualisation of clinical spreadsheets; co-founded Seq@Home. Co-authored an NPG publication. Linked to UKE medical studies and the Digital Health elective track.

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    systems immunology single-cell macrophages metabolism

  • Lecturer & organizer — Digital Health track

    Universitätsklinikum Hamburg-Eppendorf (UKE)

    Led the “One Million Euro Challenge” elevator-pitch seminar (2021–2023); seminars on health apps, ideation, elevator pitch & start-up financing; excursion to Philips Health Innovation Port. Co-initiated COVID-19 vaccine Q&A with Profs. Addo, Schulze zur Wiesch, and Dr Fathi.

    digital health teaching UKE

  • Surgery assistant

    Facharztklinik Hamburg

    Participated in ~60 operations, mostly orthopaedics and gynaecology (MIS and open).

    surgery clinical

  • Clinical internships & working student roles

    UKE, UKHD, Krankenhaus Waldfriede & practices across Germany

    Including surgical ER (UKHD Heidelberg), paediatric surgery and nephrology (UKE), emergency / internal medicine / coloproctology (Waldfriede Berlin), and GP / paediatrics rotations. Tutor for UKE orientation week; DAGStat Conference 2022 support.

    clinical surgery internship

  • Working student — Science & Health

    Gruner + Jahr / STERN Wissen

    Data integration for the STERN article “Medizin für Menschen — Ärzte fordern Rückbesinnung auf Heilkunst statt Profit”.

    media science communication

  • Student researcher — Dermatology

    Brandenburg Medical School / Städtisches Klinikum Dessau

    Advisor: Prof. Christos Zouboulis. Hidradenitis suppurativa and cryosurgery. Co-authored seven publications; four poster presentations and one conference talk.

    hidradenitis suppurativa keloids cryosurgery dermatology

↓ prizes
  • ESID 2024

    attendee

    Marseille, France

    European Society for Immunodeficiencies meeting — Marseille.

    IEI immunology ESID

  • 12th European Hidradenitis Suppurativa Foundation (EHSF) Conference

    poster

    Florence, Italy

    Posters on LLM biomarker detection in HS, IHS4 inter-rater reliability, and EADV school learning outcomes (3rd Young Investigator Award).

    HS EHSF dermatology

  • German Conference on Bioinformatics (GCB) 2023

    poster

    Hamburg, Germany

    Poster: Inference of metabolic properties and transcriptional programmes across altered adipocyte/immune cell ratios — Adlung lab research thesis (UKE / Digital Health track).

    bioinformatics GCB single-cell

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  • 11th European Hidradenitis Suppurativa Foundation (EHSF) Conference

    poster

    Digital

    Poster: Hidradenitis suppurativa and comorbid disorder biomarkers — a molecular meta-analysis (2nd Young Investigator Award; 3rd Poster Prize).

    HS EHSF dermatology

  • World Congress of the International Society of Cryosurgery

    speaker

    Haifa, Israel

    Talk: A novel experimental model for studying efficacy and safety of cryosurgery in keloids (September 2019).

    cryosurgery dermatology ISC keloids

↓ skills
↑ education
  • Languages

    German (native) · English (fluent) · Greek (advanced) · French (elementary) · Hungarian (elementary) · Latinum · Graecum

    languages

  • Coding & tooling

    Python · R · Shell · LaTeX · HTML · Java (basic) · C (basic) · Nextflow · ShinyR

    methods coding

  • Research methods

    Knowledge graphs & ontologies · Graph machine learning · Longitudinal / time-series ML · Single-cell, CITE-seq, Nanopore · Scanpy / Seurat · Cell–cell interaction (CellChat, Liana) · APIs & web scraping · LLMs for clinical concept recognition

    computational immunology methods

  • Clinical & focus

    Inborn errors of immunity · IBD & inflammatory disease · Hidradenitis suppurativa · Oxford Nanopore clinical pipelines

    IEI IBD hidradenitis suppurativa clinical

  • Affiliations

    Uhlig Group, CHG Oxford · Dendrou Lab · Nuffield Department of Surgical Sciences · UKE Hamburg · St Hilda's College · Christ Church

    Oxford UKE

Questions or collaboration? [email protected]