About Me
I am a biologist by training that turned into a bioinformatician for the PhD. Since starting in the SchulzLab, I have been working on analysing a variety of data and their integration with a focus on the epignome, specifically interactions between regulatory regions and genes. I also have a love-hate relationship with chromatin contact data. What keeps me going is the variety of research questions that we work on to know more about human biology and its use in medicine. I am a big fan of Python and coffee.
Education
Ph.D. in Bioinformatics
Goethe-University, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
M.Sc. in Biology
RWTH Aachen, Germany
B.Sc. in Biology
RWTH Aachen
Research Focus
Computational Medicine
Epigenomics
Transcription Factors
Variant interpretation
Contact
Office: Haus 26, 4th floor, room 401
Goethe-University and Universitätsmedizn Frankfurt
Institute for Computational Genomic Medicine
Theodor-Stern-Kai 7
60590 Frankfurt am Main, Germany
+49 69 6301 86207
d.hecker|em.uni-frankfurt.de
Publications
(2026).
Comparing machine learning methods predicting transcriptome from epigenome with applications to association studies.
Genome Biology.
(2026).
Predicting gene-specific regulation with transcriptomic and epigenetic single-cell data.
Bioinformatics.
(2026).
Probing transcription factor subsets in gene regulatory networks.
Algorithms for molecular biology: AMB.
(2026).
Cell type-specific epigenetic regulatory circuitry of coronary artery disease loci.
Nature Communications.