cv

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Basics

Name Marius P. Furter
Label Mathematics PhD Student
Email marius.furter(at)math.uzh.ch
Url https://mariusfurter.com
Summary Marius earned his master's degree in Interdisciplinary Sciences at ETH, focusing on Biological Chemistry. Thinking about the organizational principles of life sparked a deep interest in Mathematics, which he pursued during a second bachelor's degree at the University of Zurich. Currently, he is using probabilistic programming, Bayesian statistics and Category Theory to develop high-level modeling tools that will help Biologists translate their conceptual understanding into computable structures.

Education

Awards

  • 2022
    DSI Excellence Program Scholarship
    Digital Society Initiative, University of Zurich
    I was awarded this 4 year salary scholarship for my PhD project proposal "Compositional dynamic modeling of biosystems".

Skills

Julia
PPLs: Gen and Turing
ODEs: ModelingToolkit and Catalyst
Data science: DataFrames, JuliaStats and Makie
Python
NumPy
Pandas
PyTorch
R
tidyverse
shiny
RStan
Other programming languages
Haskell
Lean
Web
HTML
JavaScript
React
Media
LaTeX
Premier Pro
Illustrator
Photoshop

Languages

English
Native speaker
German
Native speaker

Volunteer

  • 2020 - present
    Tutor at incluso-LERNStudio
    Caritas Zurich
    I help displaced persons who are pursuing an apprenticeship with their homework on a weekly basis.