PhD student
Mădălina holds a B.Sc. and M.Sc. Bioinformatics degree from Technical University Munich and Ludwig-Maximilians University of Munich. She also holds a B.Eng. Computer Science degree from University “Politehnica” Timisoara, Romania. She worked on developing diagnostics pipelines, with focus on detection of tandem-repeats from nanopore long-read sequencing data, in the R&D department of the Medical Genetics Center Munich for more than five years. Mădălina joined the Prof. Henssen lab in April 2021 to pursue a PhD at Charité Berlin, co-supervised by Prof. Reinert at Freie Universität Berlin, to study the structural heterogeneity of extrachromosomal DNA in paediatric cancers by developing computational methods.