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Applied computational biologist fascinated by the way biology surprises us every time!

I did my PhD in Evolutionary Genetics at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Genetics in Germany, I was a wet lab scientist. After my PhD I decided to expand my expertise in Bioinformatics. In my current position I’m involved in different projects including chemical risk assessment and its relationship with ageing, podocytes metabolic reprograming in Oma1 and Phb2 knockout mice, and identifying associations between epigenetic responses and peripartum depression, where I aim to identify biomarkers that can be used for early detection and better diagnosis and treatment of peripartum depression. 

I was born in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia. I completed my medical studies at the Mongolian National University of Medical Sciences (MNUMS), where I also earned a MSc in pathology.
In 2024, I obtained my PhD in Translational Medicine from Semmelweis University, Hungary. My doctoral research centered on the mechanisms of renal fibrosis, with a particular emphasis on microRNA and transcription factor regulation within the TGF-beta-induced renal fibrosis models, including transgenic mice and proximal tubular cells. Recently, I started my postdoc at the CMMC, my research focuses on urine-omics analysis in autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease (ADPKD). I aim to explore urinary biomarkers and uncover mechanistic insights into ADPKD pathophysiology, ultimately identifying potential therapeutic targets in ADPKD.

During my master studies at the University of Cologne I worked as a wet-lab biologist. As part of the studies I learned about bioinformatics which excited me and led me to work at a company developing next-generation sequencing approaches. In my Ph.D. I am analyzing data from the early onset cystic kidney disease (NEOCYST) network including a comprehensive analysis of the registers’ data and a large number of serum proteomics samples to develop statistical models and improve stratification and biological understanding of cystic kidney disease in childhood and adolescence.

I completed my medical studies in Syria. Later, I moved to Germany and did my masters in global urban health at Freiburg University. Afterwards, I started working as a Medical data analysist at the University Hospital of Cologne, and currently I’m doing my PhD on identifying the key clinical and molecular characteristics predictive of Autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease ADPKD progression through modeling and FHIR transformation.

I have finished my Bachelors in Molecular Biology and Genetics, and Masters in Neuroscience at Bilkent University. I am now pursuing my PhD in Computational Biology in Cologne University with Dr. Philipp Antczak supervision. My main research is  proteomic and metabolomic approaches to uncover autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disorder (ADPKD) and its progression, as well as outcome prediction of kidney transplant patients. I am now continuing in this lab with a PostDoc position where I will continue to develop predictive models of chronic kidney diseases.

I have earned my bachelors in biotechnology at the Inholland University of Applied Sciences, Amsterdam. Subsequently I completed my masters in Molecular and Cellular Life Sciences with a specialization in bioinformatics at Utrecht University. After my masters, I worked as a PhD student at Leiden University Medical Center. My PhD was focused on developing/identifying novel biomarkers to track the health benefits of a moderate lifestyle intervention. During this project, I worked with different kinds of biological data and investigated the shared relationship between different omics layers, including transcriptomics, proteomics and metabolomics. Currently, I am analyzing data from the ZNAge cohort and try to link the intervention studies performed in Cologne to those in Leiden.

I did my Bachelors in biology at the University of Cologne where I wrote my thesis in a bioinformatics lab. I continued with the master program in Cologne specializing in Computational Biology. For my master thesis in this lab I'm investigating how proteomics data can reflect kidney function changes in pre-term born children at different time points from their birth until their release from the hospital.

I completed my Bachelor's degree in Agriculture in China, with a focus on plant trait analysis and statistical evaluation. I then moved to Germany for my Master's studies in Crop Science at Justus Liebig University Giessen, where I specialized in plant breeding and bioinformatics. My Master's thesis focused on genomic selection and training set design.
Currently, I am pursuing my PhD in Antczak Lab. My research centers on bioinformatics and computational toxicology, particularly in evaluating BPA alternatives using omics-based approaches, structural similarity assessment, and modeling molecular responses for chemical risk assessment within the EU PARC project.

After broad exploration in various biological fields, I completed my bachelor thesis at the DZNE in the bioinformatics department. Building on this foundation in computational research, I chose to continue my academic journey in Cologne by joining the Aging Cluster (CECAD). As part of my master’s thesis, I am currently working with large cohort-based datasets, investigating potential connections between health status, lifestyle factors, and other correlating metrics to develop a robust prognostic model for physical frailty in the elderly.