After completing a bachelor’s and master’s degrees in Econometrics and Statistics at University of Geneva, Switzerland, I worked as a biostatistician at the University Hospitals of Geneva where I became interested in development and application of quantitative methods in molecular biology. I moved to Purdue and obtained a masters and PhD in Statistics under co-direction of Chris Bailey-Kellogg and Bruce Craig. As a graduate student I closely collaborated with biologists, chemists and computer scientists through projects in genomics and structural biology, statistical consulting and an internship in a proteomics lab at Eli Lilly and Company. After graduation I took a position of post-doctoral associate in Ruedi Aebersold’s lab at the Institute for Systems Biology in Seattle and worked on projects in computational proteomics. In Fall 2006 I came back to Purdue as an Assistant Professor in Statistics and Computer Science.