Christian Sachs has studied Bio Sciences (BSc 2010) and Molecular Biotechnology (MSc 2014) at the Goethe University Frankfurt am Main (Germany), and is currently a PhD student (since 2014) at the Modeling & Simulation Group of the Institute for Bio- and Geosciences 1 at Research Center Jülich, Germany. His strong interest in computer science and programming lead him to pursue projects which aim to answer biological questions by the application of novel computerized methods.