Members

Sinitcyn Lab Team Photo

Leadership

Pavel Sinitcyn

Pavel Sinitcyn

Principal Investigator, Assistant Professor, PhD

shotgun proteomics, computational proteomics, phosphoproteomics

Majid Mohammadi

Majid Mohammadi

Senior Scientist, Postdoctoral Researcher, PhD

machine learning, shapley values, explainability in AI

Grigory Reznikov

Grigory Reznikov

PhD Student, MSc in Theoretical Computer Science

high performance computing, graph algorithms, docking

Team

Lizaveta Yurkianets

Lizaveta Yurkianets

MSc Student, Drug Innovation, Utrecht University

Building antibody library for middle-down MS proteomics

Mar 2025 -

Fabrice Kusters

Fabrice Kusters

BSc Student, Computer Science and Mathematics, Technical University Eindhoven

Generative AI for decoy generation in mass spectrometry-based proteomics

Oct 2025 -

Alexander Kaplich

Alexander Kaplich

MSc Student, Artificial Intelligence, Utrecht University

The Third Way - combining graph-based approaches with machine learning for de novo protein sequencing

Jan 2026 -

Nikolás Hernandez Montero

Nikolás Hernandez Montero

MSc Student, Bioinformatics and Biocomplexity, Utrecht University

Mining shotgun proteomics data for antibody gold

Feb 2026 -

Sofiia Shishkina

Sofiia Shishkina

Lab Intern, MSc in Computational Biology and Bioinformatics

Currating various sources of TCR receptor and antibody data.

Nov 2025 -

Alumni

Stan Reinders

Stan Reinders

MSc Student, Bioinformatics and Biocomplexity, Utrecht University

SpectraBERT - a BERT-like model for complete peptide spectra prediction

Jul 2024 - Dec 2025

Sara Albarran Berlanga (helloR&D)

Sara Albarran Berlanga (helloR&D)

MSc Student, Artificial Intelligence, Utrecht University

Organoid viability prediction on bright field images

Feb 2025 - Jun 2025

Markel Benito Sendin (Genmab)

Markel Benito Sendin (Genmab)

MSc Student, Bioinformatics and Biocomplexity, Utrecht University

Enhancing PPI explainability with geometric deep learning

Feb 2025 - Jul 2025

Ellen Frances Shute

Ellen Frances Shute

PhD Student, MSc in Molecular Techniques in Life Science

Jun 2024 - Sep 2025