Tyra Stickel is a Ph.D. candidate in Bioinformatics. She holds a Bachelor and Master degree in Medical Informatics from the University of Tübingen. During her studies, she was a team member of a research group developing the Personal Health Train (PHT) - a distributed machine learning framework for medical data analysis. In her Master thesis, she worked with Gaussian Processes for confounder detection in distributed machine learning scenarios. Her research focuses on multi-omics data analysis, personalized oncology and machine learning.