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My research focuses on the applications of machine learning to problems in structural biology and drug discovery.

Florian Markowetz is a Senior Group Leader at the Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute. He is a Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award holder and received a CRUK Future Leader in Cancer Research prize. He holds degrees in Mathematics (Dipl. math.) and Philosophy (M.A.) from the University of Heidelberg and a Dr. rer. nat. (PhD equivalent) in Computational Biology from Free University Berlin, for which he was awarded an Otto-Hahn Medal by the Max Planck Society. His group at the CRUK Cambridge Institute combines computational work on cancer evolution and image analysis of the tumour tissue with experimental work on understanding key cancer mechanisms like the estrogen receptor.

I am a data science research assistant working at the MRC Cancer Unit in Dr Samarajiwa's lab. My research involves applying deep learning approaches to develop cancer early detection methods and understanding epigenetic processes involved in early carcinogenesis. 

I am a PhD student developing and applying compositional models for mutational signature analysis, and with an interest in several other fields of computational biology.