Ph.D. students and international students

The competence center for algorithmic and mathematical methods in Biology, Biotechnology and Medicine currently consists of 7 Professors from 4 different faculties of the University of Applied Sciences Mannheim. Moreover, we are happy to have our PhD student and international students working on their theses under our guidance.

Giulia Varvarà

Institute of Mathematical Biology | Faculty of Computer Science

Giulia Varvarà visited the HS Mannheim as an Erasmus intern from Mai to July 2021. She worked on a project about the error detection and correction during the translation of the genetic genome. In particular, she developed and applied statistical and algorithmic methods to screen real genome sequences for error-correcting codes. Specific circular codes were searched by optimization methods like evolutionary algorithms. The analysis was integrated into a software tool written in R. She was mainly supervised by Professor Markus Gumbel (Mannheim).

Giulia holds a Bachelor degree in Statistics from the University of Bologna (Italy) and is currently part of the Master's Programme in Life Science Informatics at the University of Helsinki (Finnland).

Ariane Gabriel Tallee Kakeu

Institute of Mathematical Biology | Faculty of Computer Science

Ariane Gabriel Tallee Kakeu has been granted a DAAD scholarship within the Bi-nationally Supervised Doctoral Degrees programme. She will be visiting our University from October 2020 till September 2021 in order to carry out parts of her PhD project on "Some types of ideals in residuated lattices and applications". In 2018 Ms. Kakeu has obtained her Master degree in Mathematics at the University of Dschang in Cameroon. Her main research interests are algebras, logic and residuated lattices and applications. She will be mainly supervised by Professor Lutz Strüngmann (Mannheim) and her supervisor in Cameroon, Professor Dr. Celestin Lele.

Martin Starman

Institute of Mathematical Biology | Faculty of Computer Science

Martin Starman is the first PhD. Student of the competence center in cooperation with the University of Strasbourg (France). Under the supervision of Professors Dr. Elena Fimmel and Lutz Strüngmann fom cammbio and Professor Dr. Christian Michel from ICube (University of Strasbourg) he studies in his thesis properties, construction principles and biological applications of circular codes in the genetic information. Martin Starman is also a fellow of the Albert and Anneliese Konanz Foundation at the HS Mannheim.

Clemens Böcker

Institute of Molecular- and Cell-Biology - Faculty of Biotechnology.

Clemens Böcker is a PhD student of Philipp Wiedemann (CAMMBIO) in cooperation with Hajo Suhr (Faculty of Information Technology) and Karen Bieback (Clinical Faculty Mannheim of the University of Heidelberg). He works on suspension microscopy and image analysis with respect to Quality Control of blood transfusion products and recently also tropical medicine. Clemens Böcker is a fellow of the Albert and Anneliese Konanz Foundation at Mannheim University of Applied Sciences.

Federica Luppino

Federica Luppino was a student of the University of Bologna (Italy) and visited the HS Mannheim as a Erasmus fellow. As part of her Master Thesis she worked on patterns of tetranucleotides in the genetic code and their effect on phylogenetics. Federica was jointly supervised by Professor Dr. Lutz Strüngmann from cammbio and Professor Dr. Simone Giannerini from the University of Bologna. She is now a PhD student at the Max Plank Institute for Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics in Dresden.