Leadership
Pavel Sinitcyn
Principal Investigator, Assistant Professor, PhD
shotgun proteomics, computational proteomics, phosphoproteomics
Majid Mohammadi
Senior Scientist, Postdoctoral Researcher, PhD
machine learning, shapley values, explainability in AI
Grigory Reznikov
PhD Student, MSc in Theoretical Computer Science
high performance computing, graph algorithms, docking
Team
Tiago Gonçalves Maia Prazeres
MSc Student in Bioinformatics and Biocomplexity, Utrecht University, Utrecht University
A review of deconvolution methods for top-down proteomics
June 2026 -
Felix Céard-Falkenberg
MSc Student in Computer Science, Utrecht University, Utrecht University
TBA
May 2026 -
Apostolia Bachsevanoglou Dimitriadou
MSc Student in Cancer, Stem Cells and Developmental Biology, Utrecht University
Itaconate-related Post-translational Modifications
Apr 2026 -
Nikolás Hernandez Montero
MSc Student in Bioinformatics and Biocomplexity, Utrecht University
Mining shotgun proteomics data for antibody gold
Feb 2026 -
Alexander Kaplich
MSc Student in Artificial Intelligence, Utrecht University
The Third Way - combining graph-based approaches with machine learning for de novo protein sequencing
Jan 2026 -
Sofiia Shishkina
Lab Intern in MSc in Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Currating various sources of TCR receptor and antibody data.
Nov 2025 -
Alumni
Lizaveta Yurkianets
MSc Student in Drug Innovation, Utrecht University
Building antibody library for middle-down MS proteomics
Mar 2025 - May 2026
Fabrice Kusters
BSc Student in Computer Science and Mathematics, Technical University Eindhoven
Generative AI for decoy generation in mass spectrometry-based proteomics
Oct 2025 - Feb 2026
Stan Reinders
MSc Student in Bioinformatics and Biocomplexity, Utrecht University
SpectraBERT - a BERT-like model for complete peptide spectra prediction
Jul 2024 - Dec 2025
Ellen Frances Shute
PhD Student in Molecular Techniques in Life Science
Jun 2024 - Sep 2025
Industry Interns
Gulce Çelik (Pacmed)
MSc Student in Artificial Intelligence, Utrecht University
TBA
Apr 2026 -
Marc B. Borkhuis (The Hyve)
MSc Student in Bioinformatics and Biocomplexity, Utrecht University
TBA
Mar 2026 -
Irene Gonzalez Ortega Villena (TNO)
MSc Student in Bioinformatics and Biocomplexity, Utrecht University
TBA
Feb 2026 -
Sara Albarran Berlanga (helloR&D)
MSc Student in Artificial Intelligence, Utrecht University
Organoid viability prediction on bright field images
Feb 2025 - Jun 2025
Markel Benito Sendin (Genmab)
MSc Student in Bioinformatics and Biocomplexity, Utrecht University
Enhancing PPI explainability with geometric deep learning
Feb 2025 - Jul 2025