Alexander Dietrich

I am a PhD student in the Data Science in Systems Biology chair at TUM.
I joined this group first in 2020 as a student research assistant, where I developed the R shiny app Namco, which offers multiple analysis workflows for micobiome data. I then finished my master's thesis in 2021, where I implemented an R package called SimBu, which can be used to simulate bulk RNA sequencing datasets with variable cell type composition. We are using this tool in the omnideconv project, where we implemented an R package for unified access to multiple second-generation cell-type deconvolution methods and are in the process of benchmarking these methods with simulated and real data.
My current work is focused mainly on the analysis of transcriptomic and DNA methylation data in patients with viral diseases such as Hepatitis C, where we study the long-term effects of virus infections in a joint project called NetfLID together with TU Braunschweig and Medizinische Hochschule Hannover.

Doctoral Candidate in Bioinformatics at DaiSyBio,

2022 -

Technical University of Munich, Germany

Student Research Assistant at the Chair of Experimental Bioinformatics

2020

Technical University of Munich, Germany

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MSc in Bioinformatics

2018 - 2021

Technical University of Munich and Ludwig-Maximilians Universität München, Germany

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BSc in Bioinformatics

2015 - 2018

Technical University of Munich and Ludwig-Maximilians Universität München, Germany