Welcome!

We are the Computational Immunology Group at the Data Science group at the Institute for Computing and Information Sciences, Radboud University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands. We are jointly affiliated with the Department of Tumor Immunology at the Radboud Institute for Molecular Life Sciences, Radboud University Medical Center.

We study one of nature's most amazing creations, the adaptive immune system, from a computational and information-centric perspective. How do cells in the immune system process information? How do they learn, forget, and get confused? How do they collaborate with each other to make better decisions collectively than they could individually? We strive to harness the insights we gain for the benefit of both immunology and computer science. We have been involved in cancer research, the development of vaccines, and research into viruses, but we have also made important contributions to building better nature-inspired machine learning algorithms. Our group is diverse in many respects and hosts computer scientists, a medical doctor and a molecular biologist under the same umbrella. We are passionate about good science and we care about doing things well and getting them right.

Team

Our multidisciplinary team generally consists of computer scientists, biologists, and sometimes medical doctors. Here's a current list of team members.

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Ankur Ankan

Postdoc (pending PhD defense)

Causal Inference Bayesian Networks

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Asima Abidi

Postdoc (pending PhD defense)

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Jan Schering

PhD Candidate

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Pedro Aroca Lara

Staff scientist

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Franka Buytenhuijs

PhD Candidate

Artificial Immune Systems T Cell Immunology

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Jeroen Creemers

PhD Candidate

Clinical Trials Medical Oncology Tumor Immunology Computational Oncology

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Evgenia Martynova

PhD Candidate

Medical Imaging Deep Learning Bioinformatics

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Mihaela Mihaylova

PhD Candidate

Modelling Bioinformatics Bayesian Statistics

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Koert Schreurs

PhD Candidate

Computational Biology Cell Migration

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Gijs Schröder

PhD Candidate

Modelling T Cell Immunology

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Shabaz Sultan

PhD Candidate

T Cell Dynamics Complex Systems High-Performance Computing

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Johannes Textor

Associate Professor

T Cell Immunology Modelling Simulation Causal Inference

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Inge Wortel

Assistant Professor

Computational Biology (T-)Cell Migration Cellular Potts Models Simulations and Machine Learning

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Lin Wouters

PhD Candidate

Computational Biology Cell Migration

How to contact us

Most of the time, you can find us on the 2nd floor of the Mercator 1 building (Toernooiveld 212). To get there from the train station, you can take the “Heyendaal Shuttle” towards the campus until you reach the the stop “Huygensgebouw”. Staying on the same side of the road, walk a few metres up the hill and turn left. At the crossroads with the Kapittelweg, cross the street on your left to reach the Mercator 1 building. Once inside the building, go to the 2nd floor and ask someone where to find us.