ABOUT ME
I am an evolutionary systems biologist, who uses computers and mathematics to explore the evolution of complex biological systems. I am studying how adaptation shapes genotypes, phenotypes and populations in variable environments, with its share of surprising and counter-intuitive effects.
I am using a broad range of approaches, from mathematical modeling to numerical simulations, bioinformatics and machine learning. Depending on their complexity, I usually consider simulation models as experimental systems (Peck, 2004) — I conduct in silico evolution experiments in a computer as one would do in the real world (Hindré et al., 2012).
Since January 2023, I am a research associate at the Heinrich Heine University of Düsseldorf (Mathematics and Natural Sciences faculty), in Prof. Martin Lercher's Computational Cell Biology group. Before that, I have been a research associate at the University of Helsinki, the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, and at INRIA. I defended my PhD in November, 2017 at INSA de Lyon, within the project-team INRIA-Beagle.
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« Some rain forests in the Amazon region occur on white-sand soils. In these locations, the physical environment consists of clean white sand, air, falling water, and sunlight. Embedded within this relatively simple physical context, we find one of the most complex ecosystems on earth, containing hundreds of thousands of species. These species do not represent hundreds of thousands of adaptations to the physical environment. Most of adaptations of these species are to the other living organisms. The forest creates its own environment. »
