Team

We are located at the University Hospital Schleswig-Holstein, Campus Kiel, in the Department for Hematology, Oncology, where we focus our research efforts on ecological complexity, evolutionary dynamics and immune-interactions in cancer and the hematopoietic system. We apply nonlinear dynamical systems, stochastic processes, data science, and statistics to integrate models with data and make clinically relevant predictions.

Students

Anne Anglet, Bsc (Master’s student at Kiel University)

BSc in Biology (Kiel University, 2023). Research interest: T cell heterogeneity and dynamics during bi-specific T cell enhancer therapy

Yifan Chen, Msc (graduate student, starting Sept. 2025)

Master of Science in Mathematics (2024) and Bachelor of Science in Mathematics (2021), Technical University of Munich (TUM), Germany. Research interests: CAR T cell therapy, tumor heterogeneity, cancer evolution, mathematical models of cancer growth, single cell sequencing analysis.

Qianci Yang, Msc (graduate student, primary Supervisor: Arne Traulsen)

Bachelor’s and master’s (integrated master’s) degree from the University of Warwick, UK (2022). Research interest in mathematical and statistical modelling of cancer and immune system interactions, evolutionary dynamics of leukemia, complex interactions of diseases, history of science.

Postdocs

Mayukh Mondal, PhD (Postdoctoral Researcher in the Clinical Research Unit 5010 CATCH ALL)

Bioinformatics and cancer evolution. website at IKMB

Collaborators

Our highly interdisciplinary work combines research approaches and methods from biomathematics, computational biology, statistics, hematology, oncology, pathology, immunology, ecology of cancer, and evolution.

At the University of Kiel, we work with the teams of Claudia Baldus and Monika Brüggemann on heterogeneity and predicitve modeling of leukemia and lymphoma, as well as with Susanne Sebens on tumor heterogeneity and metastasis.

Together with the group of Frederick L. Locke and Friedrich Stölzel we work on better understanding cellular and drug kinetics during CAR T cell therapy.

With the groups of Andriy Marusyk and David Basanta we work on tumor-stroma interacitons, tumor ecology, and the effects of cancer associated fibroblasts in lung and breast cancers.

With Eric Padron and his lab we work on inflammatory interactions in chronic myeloid diseases, such as CMML.

With the teams of Meghan Ferrall-Fairbanks and Brandon Manley we work on mulitple projects that seek to quantify the immunological and geospatial heterogeneity of cancer.

Together with Christian Brendel, we model the cellular kinetics after gene therapy intervention for sickle cell disease.