Coming from a background in RNA structure bioinformatics, I have been previously interested in designing sequences with secondary structures similar to those of known self-replicating RNA molecules at the former MPI-MIS structure of evolution group under joint supervision of Matteo Smerlak and Peter F. Stadler.

For my PhD, I am applying Bayesian methods to 3D structure determination, taking into account the hierarchical nature of nucleic acid structure. This project is co-supervised by Christian Höner zu Siederdissen.

Further links

• GitHub
• Orcid
• This related article by my friends and former collaborators

Publications

• zelll: a fast, framework-free, and flexible implementation of the cell lists algorithm for the Rust programming language
  Vincent Messow, Christian Höner zu Siederdissen, Michael Habeck
  Bioinformatics Advances, Volume 6, Issue 1, 2026, vbaf330
  Link to Paper
  Link to Source Code