Leonora Raka

Position:	PhD Student
Email:	leonora.raka@tum.de

In 2025, I joined the Chair of Data Science in Systems Biology as a PhD student in collaboration with the University Hospital Augsburg (Universitätsklinikum Augsburg), where I work as a doctoral researcher at the 1st Department of Internal Medicine (1. Medizinische Klinik).

My connection with the chair began during my Bachelor’s and Master’s studies, where I completed both theses in close collaboration with the group. For my Bachelor’s thesis, I developed a tool to interactively visualize transcriptomic platelet data as part of a larger study — an experience that sparked my interest in biomedical data science and continued to shape my research focus throughout my Master’s.

During my Master’s thesis, I benchmarked various tools for the detection of differentially methylated regions (DMRs), including DiMmer, on simulated bisulfite data, which introduced me to the field of epigenomics and further deepened my interest in integrative -omics approaches. In my PhD, I aim to build on this foundation by continuing to analyze multi-omics data in the context of platelet biology and related diseases.